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  • My favourite so far is "an object that has a purpose other than jewelry cannot be warn as jewelry (i.e., animal chains or collars)".

    Obviously a school where Perl is high on the curriculum. Do they mind if you die your hair?

    • Re:Perl school. (Score:2)

      by hfb (74) on 2002.02.17 12:51 (#4634) Homepage Journal

      They note in the code that 'only natural colours are allowed' so as long as you dye your hair a 'natural' colour one would assume that's acceptable.

      The dress code seems intimidating but it's really pretty liberal and probably is just trying to keep kids from dressing like madonna, britney or little wannbe gangstahs. I mean, catholic school dress codes are a lot more stringent as they tell you what to wear too. I spent a lot of time after school scrubbing gymnasium baseboards for wearing a turtleneck [ my school was pretty liberal ] with little prints on it instead of plain white. Dress codes save you the hassle of figuring out what to wear in the morning...it's not as bad as it would seem.

      • Yeah, I went to a public school that had a uniform. It wasn't an ordeal. All these hand-wringing limp-dick wussies who whine about their darling angel's freedom of expression being inhibited ... bah.

        I'm not worried about the uniform or dress code, just wondering whether there's more sinister mind control desires lurking behind the dress code. Probably not, given the "teaching of democratic principles" and all that bollocks in the charter.

        --Nat

        • I thought pants were gender appropriate for either sex...
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            ---ict / Spoon
          • They're generally considered so now in the US, but that hasn't always been the case. Also, there's a lot of gender-specificity about pants. Female kids who wear "too many" "boys' clothes" often get shit for being gender-inappropriate. Personally, the thought of a grade-school formally enforcing gender apartheid gives me the creeps.
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