Cross-Dressing Day Causes Stir at Milwaukee Elementary School

[fix]

I know a few posters on this thread were saying that Cross-Dressing Day sounds like a lot of fun… really? I can remember back to my childhood… and there was no way that I would want to dress up like a girl. For that matter… what would women do if the wanted to dress up like a guy? Wear a shirt a pants? I’m pretty sure that most girls do that already…

So aside from all the gender politics involved here… it just seems like a stupid idea.

Very true.

I, also, marvel at the cowboy/Indian thing. How would that be acceptable today? In such politically correct times I cannot see that ever being accepted. A kid coming with a cowboy hat and toy guns would not fly at all.

 

[Razanir]

Yes, exactly, unless it was the case that girls were all required to wear skirts or dresses as a matter of course, it would just be “boys dress as girls day.”

Yeah…but if it’s “boys dress as girls” day…then…the boys would also just be putting on their usual jeans and T-shirts!

I mean, what girls wear dresses and heels to high school?

Again, what it typically boiled down to in my high school. Remember, this was a staple of Senior Spirit Week so the seniors did it once a year.

Boys– Those who participated typically wore any or all of a girlier shirt, a skirt, a dress, and heels. In other words, stereotypically girly things.
Girls– Those who participated (typically a larger number) wore things like baggy jeans, baseball caps, giant fake jewelry… When guy clothes are acceptable for girls, they resort to the stereotype of the"punk" or “gangster”

Very true.

I, also, marvel at the cowboy/Indian thing. How would that be acceptable today? In such politically correct times I cannot see that ever being accepted. A kid coming with a cowboy hat and toy guns would not fly at all.

No guns. The only school rule that was ever allowed to be broken for Spirit Week was “no hats.”

 

[Lochias]

What an absolutely sensible idea; I fully expect it to be ignored.

Because the SUREFIRE way to help stop bullying is to put a boy in a dress.

 

[fix]

Because the SUREFIRE way to help stop bullying is to put a boy in a dress.

Apparently, we need strange new programs because common sense is lost.

 

[Lochias]

Apparently, we need strange new programs because common sense is lost.

Common sense? You prude.

 

[estesbob]

it is because of this that i find increasingly when i interview for jobs that the applicant knows they are very special, knows that we must forever be vigilant to make sure homosexuals and other minorities are never discriminated against and that they deserve a job because they passed successfully through the liberal meatgrinder that his education in this country today. They always seem a bit put out when they are told there lack of ability to string together a coherent sentence and do basic math is an impediment to them gaining employment. And of course it doesn’t help when they have to ask what the 'big" words on the employment application mean.

To be blunt i am not nearly as concerned about how diverse their class was, about how tolerant they are, as i am about the fact they can’t read and write with much proficiency

 

[Razanir]

it is because of this that i find increasingly when i interview for jobs that the applicant knows they are very special, knows that we must forever be vigilant to make sure homosexuals and other minorities are never discriminated against and that they deserve a job because they passed successfully through the liberal meatgrinder that his education in this country today. They always seem a bit put out when they are told there lack of ability to string together a coherent sentence and do basic math is an impediment to them gaining employment. And of course it doesn’t help when they have to ask what the 'big" words on the employment application mean.

To be blunt i am not nearly as concerned about how diverse their class was, about how tolerant they are, as i am about the fact they can’t read and write with much proficiency

Yes, but that’s also a side effect of spell check– Kids don’t need two learn too spell, cause spellcheck tells them everything. Their relying more on spellcheck then they’re own brains. ← Spellcheck found nothing wrong with those two sentences

 

[meltzerboy]

it is because of this that i find increasingly when i interview for jobs that the applicant knows they are very special, knows that we must forever be vigilant to make sure homosexuals and other minorities are never discriminated against and that they deserve a job because they passed successfully through the liberal meatgrinder that his education in this country today. They always seem a bit put out when they are told there lack of ability to string together a coherent sentence and do basic math is an impediment to them gaining employment. And of course it doesn’t help when they have to ask what the 'big" words on the employment application mean.

To be blunt i am not nearly as concerned about how diverse their class was, about how tolerant they are, as i am about the fact they can’t read and write with much proficiency

Schools should be able to do both: teach the basics in academics as well as tolerance and respect for others. I’m not referring only to diversity but also good manners. In simpler times, this was done by schools; good citizenship was part of the educational process.

 

[estesbob]

Schools should be able to do both: teach the basics in academics as well as tolerance and respect for others. I’m not referring only to diversity but also good manners. In simpler times, this was done by schools; good citizenship was part of the educational process.

But they dont. They waste way too much time indoctrinating kids about diversity tolerance to and how to have sex with your significant other with no consequences. By the time they reach me they don’t even have basic reading and writing skills and get outraged any time a cross word is sent their way because, after all their special, and we should all love each other

 

[marymary1975]

Apparently, we need strange new programs because common sense is lost.

 

[mexolic]

I wonder what would be the reaction if the boys were told to wear pants and a shirt and the girls told to wear a dress. This is 2013, I think the parents would be more upset with that one.

 

[meltzerboy]

I wonder what would be the reaction if the boys were told to wear pants and a shirt and the girls told to wear a dress. This is 2013, I think the parents would be more upset with that one.

Not so much the parents as the children themselves.