They Can’t Take These Away from Her

by Christine on October 1, 2009

in Creativity,Family Life

The thing Sunny has found hardest to adjust to about her new high school is the uniforms she has to wear every day: polo shirts in red, black, white or grey (ugh) and Dockers-style pants or shorts in tan, navy blue or black (double ugh).  No cute pleated plaid skirts!  No white button-down shirts!  Nothing cute of any kind!

But strangely enough, the dress code says nothing about her shoes, except that they have to have a closed toe and heel.  So she used my fabric paints to alter her white Converses, and now wears these to school every day:

She often wears them with shorts and hot pink knee socks. The dress code is completely silent on socks, which seems to me like a serious error in their program.  Any little crack in the system, and someone as determined as Sunny will wriggle right through it.

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Megan October 1, 2009 at 3:18 pm

Glad she has found a way to express herself. Hallelujah for fabric paints.

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mary October 2, 2009 at 12:20 am

I say it is discrimination that there are no skirts or skorts. One should be able to look different from a boy if one wants to. For what it is worth! Mary

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Nancy October 4, 2009 at 11:56 pm

I agree with mary…what’s with having no option for skirts? They could specify waist band at waist and knee length, perfectly easily.

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