Girls wearing hats in school

[MaryAnnDVC]

There are divided opinions on what is acceptable etiquette for hats, so you just teach your children in accordance with your beliefs. I have two boys who take their hats off as soon as they walk indoors. Hats in restaurants - never. A lot of people don't agree, but it works for our family.

 

[Uncle Remus]

When I see a man with a cap on inside, I just figure his parents didn't teach him better.

And I'm sure he never served in our military!

 

[beckysmith]

It's rude for anyone to wear hats indoors. I like berets too, but not indoors no matter how cute they are.
And rules are rules- no double standards.

 

[VAfamily1998]

OP: Ettiquette wise, you are correct--it is acceptable for women to wear hats indoors but not men.

However, I doubt that the schools have the "no hat rule" for ettiquette reasons. Most of the times I've heard about no hat rules, it's more of a prevention of students showing gang affiliation. Even if your school doesn't have a gang-issue--maybe other schools in your district, or maybe the administration just wants to avoid problems before it even becomes an issue...
I know in my high school (1989-2003) there was a no hat policy for boys and girls. I specifically remember a couple (female) students going through chemotherapy wearing bandanas or scarfs on their head, but I don't recall anyone else wearing any type of head covering.

 

[funnybunny]

Well I live in the UK so we have a strict uniform and hats are just a nono all together but I think in a classroom no hats at all should be worn by male and female students. However I don't see anything wrong with wearing any sort of hat in the corridor or hallway or at lunchtimes/freetimes I do think its unfair to implement a no hats for boys but hats for girls. Thats like saying girls can't wear trousers to school but boys can...

 

[DaParkers]

When I see a man with a cap on inside, I just figure his parents didn't teach him better.

And I'm sure he never served in our military!

My wife was in the Army. Women in our military are required to remove their headdress indoors also. And all personnel are required to keep them on outdoors. Should all men wear hats while outdoors? So, tell me what does the military or one's parents not teaching them right have to do with it. I'll ask again. What is wrong about a hat indoors on a man and not a woman?

 

[TheColtonsMom]

No hats were part of our dress code in M.S. and H.S. (96-02), and probably in grade school as well.

Now at one public high school I went to, it was rules that there were no shorts allowed, however, girls could wear skirts. The usual fingertip rule applied. I always wore pants anyways because the classrooms were cold, but I never really looked over the dress code book to begin with.

Dress code books have to be so specific these days because it seems a teenager can not properly dress themselves. This was the case 10 years ago too. No one else wants to know how far below a guy's butt his pants can hang or what kind of underwear he's wearing. Girls do not need to showing off every bit of skin possible, it's not the beach or pool.

Religion is about the only excuse some one is allowed to use for bending the rules. But most religions are more properly dressed to begin with, and require more decency.

My HS initiated no shorts rule while I went there. Girls were still allowed to wear skirts. I lived in California and towards the end of the school year it was actually quite hot that year so alot of girls were wearing skirts for some relief. A group of boys (most of the football team and a few others) came to school in skirts in protest sadly they all wore shorts under the skirts thus they were all sent home for a dress code violation.

 

[AustinTink]

I'm finding this endlessly amusing. Geezer that I am, I can testify to the opposite situation: when I was in parochial grade school we were REQUIRED to wear hats, it was part of our uniform to wear a beanie everyday. The beanie was dropped in the early 1970's, so I only wore them for a few years, but my elder sisters wore them all the way through to HS graduation. It used to be a standard part of parochial schoolgirls' uniforms all over the country.

The logic for headcoverings is not the same for men and women, therefore it isn't one of those things that has to be equal. Technically, women cover their hair, while men cover their heads. For men, doffing the hat indoors is a gesture of respect for authority, but for women, keeping the hair covered is intended to be a measure of modesty. More importantly in this day and age, if you universally ban head coverings in a public school you are likely to eventually run afoul of someone's religious beliefs, as Muslim women cover, but so do Jewish boys. I can understand banning brimmed hats in class, but IMO banning hats altogether is overkill -- what is the point?

Yes, I remember the beanie, also. I went to Catholic school and the beanie was required for full dress uniform days.

 

[DaisyLynn]

I was in HS 1994-1998 and my school allowed girls to wear hats/did not allow boys to wear hats, very cut and dry. I remember at the time thinking how awesome it was being a girl.

Now that I'm older and wiser, I see that that was really not fair. They did change those rules a couple years after I graduated, if I recall correctly.

 

[aprilgail2]

When I see a man with a cap on inside, I just figure his parents didn't teach him better.

And I'm sure he never served in our military!

I think the same thing even if its a woman , especially if it is in a restaurant. The worst is at sports events where men and women dobt remove their hats during the national anthem!!!

 

[MichelleVW]

When I see a man with a cap on inside, I just figure his parents didn't teach him better.

And I'm sure he never served in our military!

Well, I can count many many many times that you would be wrong. I am retired military and I know of lots of military men that wear their ball caps inside. I really think that is a ridiculous "rule". What's the point in it? Because someone a 100 years ago said it wasn't "proper".

 

[castleview]

Hat aren't allowed on anyone in our schools either. Started in the 90s I believe due to gang affiliations silly as that may sound. As for the boy…who cares.

 

[Pakey]

When I see a man with a cap on inside, I just figure his parents didn't teach him better.

And I'm sure he never served in our military!

I was a woman in the military, and we were required to remove our hats as soon as we stepped indoors also. I still remove mine as soon as I step indoors and our sons were definitely taught to do so.

 

[MichelleVW]

Hat aren't allowed on anyone in our schools either. Started in the 90s I believe due to gang affiliations silly as that may sound. As for the boy…who cares.

I went to school in the 80's and we weren't allowed to wear hats in school.

 

[MichelleVW]

I was a woman in the military, and we were required to remove our hats as soon as we stepped indoors also. I still remove mine as soon as I step indoors and our sons were definitely taught to do so.

What about the MP/SP's? They are in the military but they all wear their berets indoors.

I really don't see the big deal about a baseball hat in Buffalo Wild Wings.

 

[Uncle Remus]

Women in our military are required to remove their headdress indoors also. And all personnel are required to keep them on outdoors. Should all men wear hats while outdoors? So, tell me what does the military or one's parents not teaching them right have to do with it. I'll ask again. What is wrong about a hat indoors on a man and not a woman?

My own opinion, men with hats on inside appear to have no respect.

I just returned from The Alamo, a site where many died 'n they had to have a guide at the front door askin' grown men to remove their hats, pathetic!

 

[Uncle Remus]

I think the same thing even if its a woman , especially if it is in a restaurant. The worst is at sports events where men and women dobt remove their hats during the national anthem!!!

Oh puh lease, don't get me started, it's a pathetic state when folks have to be so cool they can't show our flag respect!!

 

[Uncle Remus]

I was a woman in the military, and we were required to remove our hats as soon as we stepped indoors also. I still remove mine as soon as I step indoors and our sons were definitely taught to do so.

And thank you for passin' on the lesson!!!

 

[MichelleVW]

My own opinion, men with hats on inside appear to have no respect.

I just returned from The Alamo, a site where many died 'n they had to have a guide at the front door askin' grown men to remove their hats, pathetic!

Ok, the Alamo I understand, but at Buffalo Wild Wings??? Who are we respecting?

 

[DaParkers]

My own opinion, men with hats on inside appear to have no respect.

There are a lot of great men that would frowned upon by you because they didn't follow your tradition.