Posted on 02/08/2010 7:58:56 AM PST by the_devils_advocate_666
Schools are following Tesco's example and taking a stand against parents who turn up at the gates wearing pyjamas.
They are chastising parents for dropping children off - and collecting them in the afternoon - without first changing out of their nightwear and slippers.
One head has written to parents warning that their failure to get dressed for the school run is 'slovenly and rude'.
He took action after up to 50 mothers a day began arriving in the mornings wearing pyjamas and slippers.
The moves comes after a Tesco store in Cardiff took the unprecedented step of banning customers from shopping in their nightwear.
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I’m in my 60’s and I’m retired and really enjoy not having to get dressed up everyday. My sister died a couple years ago and I inherited my niece and if the school doesn’t like it if I’m wearing pajamas when I drop her off, the school can kiss my pajama clad behind. I don’t get out of the car and I don’t wear my pajamas to Walmart. However, I reserve the right to wear them in my own car.
Wow...someone supporting the idea of public slovenliness?
People who don't have respect for themselves certainly won't have it for others. Appropriate dress and grooming are fundamental in demonstrating self respect and respect for others.
Some of the best windshield shots I got were at school street corners. There are advantages on being a Lineman(Utility)!
“Worked like a charm”
School principles definitely need the same power as a military commander over the patrons of the school systems. Hell, they should be able to visit and inspect homes to ensure that proper nutrition is being provided, make sure that the moms and dads are well rested and sexually satisfied, that nobody is eating fattening foods, and make sure that lights are being turned off in empty rooms, television off at 8 p.m. Lets certainly ensure that the water is turned off while brushing teeth, and that everybody in the family is wearing deodorant. Obviously the principals will need more school cops. Lots more, so they can shoot, beat and taze parents in their own homes. Yes we really can ensure a better world if only we have the courage.
I take it you've never been to Cardiff to see the wildlife.
“Not supporting public slovenliness.” How does one support that anyway?
Quit worrying about what others are doing. Worry about yourself. I was taught that in kindergarten. It’s a good policy. People always want to “fix” the people around them. Next time around somebody might want to fix you. For instance, my crusade might be that in order for the school to be safe, all children are to be questioned whether mom and dad keep guns at home. If it is discovered that guns are in the home well mom and dad need to be “invited” to mandatory re education classes.
This stuff never stops. Don’t give an inch.
There was a time when women were encouraged to take pride in their appearance — too much so, actually. Now its swung too far the other way. There has to be a happy medium between corsets and sweatpants.
My wife wouldn’t be caught dead outside the house in sweatpants (except when she’s headed to or from the gym) ... and I’ve seen all of her pajamas, they’re too revealing to drop the kids off in (wahoo).
SnakeDoc
I also drive to school early and manage to get some jeans on first. However, I certainly understand how many moms get last dibbs on the showers in their homes, especially if they have a hubby and lots of kids all trying to get out the door before 7 AM.
At least for us guys, all we have to do is throw on the jeans and the ball cap and we’re good to go.
I was actually surprised, when I was teaching HS that we had to put in our dress code that students could not wear pajamas and house slipper to school. I thought that was totally weird (that they or their parents wouldn’t already know that).
Also, when I was little, I walked to school in elementary school, and then I took the bus in junior high. My mom did have to drive me to school in high school for about a year. I don’t think she looked great when she drove me to school at 6am.
I’ve always had to drive my kids to school because we have lived to far away from school, and there hasn’t been a bus to take them.
Starbucks is the one place I go where I don’t look great. I’ll run in there when I’m in my workout clothes and I don’t have make-up on. One time, I ran into an old boyfriend that I hadn’t seen in over 10 years. I’d prefer running into old boyfriends when my hair is done, make-up is on, and I’m in cute clothes.
what are you pinging me for? I was horribly embarrassed that I was still wearing the t-shirt I had intended to sleep in when I went to the hospital to have your grandson! I was able to toss on sweat pants, but he was coming right then...heck, I almost didn’t make it to the delivery room! And then, when hubby went home in the morning to feed and walk the dog I made him bring me back some clothes as well.
I will admit that we do school in jammies sometimes, but we homeschool, so who cares. I do not go out in public that way!
I was thinking about you in college, Miss Connie.
I don’t agree with this at all.
I think a harried mom in PJs with a robe or some outergarment is fine to just drop kids off at the circle ..
I do think though that the ridiculous way most schools today handle drop offs and pick ups are silly...and slow
It takes 40 minutes to empty our school
now in my day back in Leave to Beaver era.....you just left class and walked out to mom’s car, or got on a bus or walked home or rode yer bike
The question isn’t whether I have a right to tell you what to wear. The question is whether you have a right to wear whatever crap you would like at a school. I say you have no such right.
wow...7am?
our’s are 8:30.
oh...that...well...when one goes to a women’s college, and one’s first class is mere feet from one’s dorm...well...
in anycase, the real world is co-ed, I get dressed to go out in it.
I went to school in the 60s...we had moms in housecoats and rollers then
working mom were dressed up of course...very few back then
black guys wore houseslippers and jeri curl caps as a fashion statement back in the 70s
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