A Memory about 7th Grade

and it's so strange..when i was young i wanted to wear frilly dresses and skirts all the time..i hated trousers lol..now i kinda compromise..but i still love dresses..lol.. funny how we all hav different tastes lol

I will add my memories to yours.I was from a semi-affluent suburb of Oklahoma City. We had to all go outside after lunch for a period of time, probably only ten to fifteen minutes, but the "popular" girls and the in group made fun of anyone who wore heavy tights (we called them leotards) because that was little girl clothes. Same for socks. I was very shocked by a girl who moved in who had grown up in Pennsylvania--she wore socks. I admired her ability to do the practical, and not try to please the crowd. We did not get released to wear slacks and pantsuits until my senior year in high school. I came to a conservative Kansas town for college, and the girls had been wearing jeans to school for years in the winters. On campus, it still had to be slacks not jeans, but that was okay by me.

When I was in 7th grade, there was no dress code. We just had to make sure that our dresses were not one inch above our knees. It was warm where I grew up, so I never had to worry about cold legs.

Here ya go. I hear about this one all the time from my mom. I was in Kindergarten and she had gotten me all of these cute little dresses. She even made some of them and they really were pretty. After the 1st week of school my teacher sent a note home and asked my mom to please save the dresses for church because I was climbing trees in my pretty little dresses and she didn't want me to ruin them.
LOL What they didn't know it was all the fault of the boys in the class they said they could climb higher than me and that wasn't about to happen. I wasn't afraid of heights back then and could shimmie a tree like a monkey. Too bad I can't do that anymore. LOL

We had to wear skirts for awhile as well. But it gets to -40c and wind chill factors -60c. School usually closed then but at -38c we all had snowpants under our skirts that we had to take off in the girls change room before we were allowed to go to class. What a stupid rule!

I have bad memories from my 7th grade. My brother drown in the Rio Grande river in that year and he was going in the same grade with me, I missed him very much because he would accompany me to school. We had a savings account together and a week before he said to split the savings and wasted all the money like if he knew he was going to die.

I am glad we didn't have anything like that when we were in school . I would have been sick all the time . I wasn't allowed to get cold at all or it would make me really sick and I would end up with the croup .
I also wouldn't have done well in a dress code where we had to wear dresses as I never wore a dress to school ever .

It is amazing to me how some rules are so silly!For years the girls had to wear clothes that would be very uncomfortable and possibly dangerous to their health!?!Did the rule makers figure females did not feel the cold?Was this also when female teachers had to wear skirts and male teachers had to wear a tie??Isn't it time to make rules that are fair to both sexes??How can we expect equal rights as adults when it is being burnt into us at a very young age that we are treating people differently?

Wow! I can't imagine a school making girls wear skirts and dresses all the time.
That is just sad! But I also know that we have come a long way in a short time in society. Which...is a good thing. Because i would have been lost growing up!
I didn't have a single dress in grade school. Matter of fact...I don't think I had a dress until I moved in with my mother at 8th grade! LOL

I had to wear dresses or skirts through all my school years. What a silly rule! At least I lived in California, so I didnt freeze. If they wanted us to be modest they should have let us wear pants. I rmember having to line up sitting on the floor with our knees up for bomb drills and knowing my underpants were showing. yuck!