I knew my DD's school was strict

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but how about these rules:

Highlighting your hair (natural don't even THINK about anything crazy): lose recess for 1 week

Having your blouse unbuttoned at the wrist: lose recess for 1 week
 

Wow, if they'd had that highlights rule at my elementary/middle school my best friend and I would have been the only girls that could have gone out to recess.
 
OH, I remember those days of catholic school!!! Knee socks, skirts to knees. Maybe 1 inch of leg would show. Can't say I'm surprised.
 
UM - I went to catholic high school and our dress code was no where near that crazy!! I don't think there was even any rules about hair. Is it only elementary grades that have such a strict dress code?
 
I can sympathize. I attended catholic school from 1st grade through HS and you didn't blink the wrong way there. In 8th grade Sister Morris used to arbitrarily enter classrooms and measure the length of our uniform skirts with her yardstick. At Cardinal Spellman HS in NY I spent many weeks in detention. Was I a bad kid? No. Was I disrespectful? No. Did I slack off on my work? No. My crime was wearing pants under my school uniform skirt on the way to school. It was against dress code policy to wear anything other than the issued uniform. They didn't care that it was 10 degrees outside. Sister Gevlin would choose a new doorway to stand by every morning just to see who she could catch violating dress code. Sometimes I picked a safe door to enter and run to the bathroom to change. Many times I picked the wrong door, and I can still hear her voice saying "I'll see you in detention Miss XXXX this afternoon and all this week". hahahaha

Times may have changed, but catholic schools will always remain strict on dress code and behavior policies.
 
ROFL! Gotta love Catholic school. I remember in 8th grade we had one nun that made a girl go to the girls room to wash off her nail polish. :eek: The nun had no idea that was impossible. She then learned and purchased a bottle of nail polish remover. Anyone showing up with colored nails had to pay .25 to use the remover. :rolleyes:
 
I was very glad with some of the rules when my kids attended Catholic gradeschool. Two of the best were: no makeup and no colored nail polish allowed. It saved me a lot of battles at home, and took the pressure off the girls as far as what other girls were allowed to wear. There was also a limit to jewelry and the size of hair bows, I don't exactly remember...my youngest is now a senior in HS.
 
Wait till she gets to HS! My children's school has the girls in pants now....they look just like the boys.

My son is a senior and his freshmen year they did away with ties...he was heartbroken. Now it's button down shirts and sweaters.

They don't have recess, so it's fines for everything. $5 and every teacher can write you up. It can get pretty expensive when you only have a part time job;)
 
When my mom went to catholic HS (class of '66 :eek: ) her dress code was strict. the only jewelry you could wear (with your uniform) was class ring and a cross on a necklace....that's it. not even earrings...but, she said most of the girls grew their hair long and wore 'em anyway (u couldn't see them with the long hair!) I remember walking to catholic elementary school with pants on under my uniform and taking them off in the coat room when i got there. times are so different now, it isn't a wonder girls can't do this and not get in trouble for it. do they want them to get frostbitten?? what about everybody saying how you should bundle up becuz of the cold?? heck, they don't even walk more than 1/10 of a mile to get the bus anymore....i used to walk miles to school....:rolleyes: now i truly know what my parents meant by "walking 2 miles to school, up hill-both ways-in the rain and snow".....remember those stories??
 
Wow, that seems really strict. I'd probably get in trouble because I can't stand to wear my shirts buttoned at the wrist for long. I'm always trying to push them up and end up unbuttoning and rolling them. I guess I don't get this unless it's more about grooming/neatness than exposure of flesh.

As for hair, make-up, and similar rules mentioned - I can see the appeal of having my DD in a school where such wasn't allowed. It definitely reduces the whining about "but everyone else gets to XXXX!"
 
Belts were required for the boys in my sons' former Cahtolic school. If they were caught without them they were sent to the office & had to wait for a parent to bring them one!!!! What a waste of class time. The buckle on my 2nd grader's belt broke - he just wore the belt pulled thru the buckle without the hook. HIs teacher told him that was unacceptable, so he wore his father's belt - even a 34" belt on a 60 lb kid is huge. They didn't care if he missed class time - just so his belt was perfect. :crazy:
 
Wow - some pretty strict rules here that, IMO, are a little goofy. Who cares if a girl's hair is highlighted or if they are wearing nail polish. They should worry about things that really matter!
 


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