Terra Bella School, because it was a temporary school (see my previous post), had a dirt playground. You can only imagine how that was when the wind would kick up and dirt flew everywhere. It drove the teachers nuts, I am sure, because their classrooms were coated with a layer of fine dust.
So every once in awhile they would come in and "oil" the playground. Yes, oil the playground. To me that seems very strange. Kids. Oil. Fall down. Mess. Who knows? But that's what they did.
So when I was in first or second grade, they announced they were going to oil the playground during a given weekend. For that reason, they were recommending that the girls temporarily wear pants to school. As I think about that now, I wonder why. Why pants because there is now oil on the ground? Not sure there is logic there, but that is what they said.
So my mom dutifully went out and bought me some pants and shirts to wear to school. The pants were little girls' pants but the shirts were little boys' shirts. You know the kind. Tee shirt with horizontal stripes of different colors and widths.
I was MORTIFIED! I had to wear pants to school and to add insult to injury, I had to wear a boy's shirt! Could things be any worse than that? Well, yes, they could!
I showed up to school on the first day of this temporary situation, and lo and behold I was the ONLY girl in my class wearing pants and a tee shirt. All of the other little girls had on their dresses. Apparently, their moms hadn't gotten the memo! LOL So now I was DOUBLY mortified!
The problem was that in that era, it was unheard of for girls to wear anything but dresses to school. Female teachers wore dresses, and female students followed their lead. Pants did not become acceptable in school until long after I graduated from high school. It all seems kind of strange now, but that is how it was back then!
I am not sure how long I wore pants to school. It seemed like an eternity, but I doubt it was more than a week or so. You can bet, however, that as soon as the oil had dried up (or whatever) I was happily back in the dress so I could blend in with my schoolmates!
Alas, I never got over that feeling of being weird! :)
健康のために飲む生酵素!飲み方と飲むタイミングのここが大事!
9 years ago
3 comments:
Dad used to make us wear a belt to church when wearing jeans but never so much pushed the issue for school. I remember fighting him so much as wearing a belt was not an option with me. I think that was a big deal back then... I'm not so sure it would be today? Jeremy and I would try to get to the car as fast as we could to avoid being inspected for a belt. We also developed a trick to wear the belt so dad wouldn't question us, but then before leaving the house, removing it and dashing to the car. It was smart as it showed we were in compliance without being asked :) - Mike
I learned 2 important things about emily through this blog...1. She was born in the wrong decade. She would LOVE to have it be the norm to wear a dress every day. 2. I see where she gets her stubborness about her clothing, MIKE, trying to hide not wearing a belt! I think Emily has every trick in the book to try to "slip" into a dress when I've put pants out.
I remember when pant suits were first allowed in school, I was in the 8th grade. The rules were it had to be a suit (basically all one color, matching, usually polyester material, or cotton), and could have no pockets on the pants. One day a teacher who had to be 900 years old sent me to the principal's office becuase there was a decorative pocket on my pants. I was MORTIFIED because I was the wallflower who never caused trouble and had never been to the principal's office. I opened the door to the office and found at least 25 other girls in there, in trouble for the same thing with the same teacher. The principal told us to go the other way when we saw her and not to worry about it, we weren't in trouble. I was SO relieved!
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