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Posted on 10/08/2004 12:42:27 PM PDT by esryle
HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. -- There was Pajama Day, Dress to Impress Day and 1980's Dress Day, but when the students at Hastings High School in Westchester staged Cross-Dressing Day Thursday, school officials got upset.
The cross dressing day was part of Spirit Week. About two dozen students came to school wearing the clothing of the opposite sex. School officials asked them to change.
Cross-dressing students said their freedom of expression was violated and that the prohibition sent the wrong message to transgender students who may want to cross-dress regularly. Students insisted their intentions were respectable and that stepping over the line could result in meaningful discussions about gender issues.
Josh McConchie, 16, who wore a pink skirt and high tops, said he wasn't making fun of gays or cross-dressers but, "actually we're trying to make them fit in."
Superintendent John Russell wasn't convinced of the students' noble motives. He said students have a variety of organizations at school that deal with issues of gender and diversity. Russell said no one would be disciplined for cross dressing.
What freaks. They should be put in an alternative acadamy.
Just kids having fun. We had "Pimp & Slut day" at the camp I attended.
Silliness on the school's part. People have done this stuff for years. I remember the whole backfield of my school's football team came to school in cheerleader outfits one day, and the cheerleaders came in football uniforms.
It was funny. It was also 1962.
The school lacks a sense of humor.
What camp was that? Camp Wannabeahore?
Close. USDAN Performing Arts Camp. Nothing funnier than gay guys dressing as pimps.
Josh McConchie, 16, who wore a pink skirt and high tops, said he wasn't making fun of gays or cross-dressers but, "actually we're trying to make them fit in"
What would Geraldine say?
Three students were suspended when they mistaken assumed that they were permitted to wear Christian crosses to school that day...
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Agreed. We had the same type of 'spirit week' dressups at my high school, and they were all in good fun.
What? soon they'll be doing "Nude Day" to make the nudists feel like they fit in. It has to stop somewhere
"Agreed. We had the same type of 'spirit week' dressups at my high school, and they were all in good fun."
Yup. And what about all those fraternal order "talent shows" where all those middle-aged guys perform in drag. It's tradition! Ugly, but traditional.
Hopefully, it will stop right after "Nude Day".
Wait a minute, my daughter is a high school senior. "Ethel ... You git' your clothes on!!!!"
At my school, they stopped it at 'Nerd Day'. I forget what they re-named it, but the reason was that they didn't want to alienate any nerds at the school. Unbelievable.
"Its the faggiest thing I ever saw" --- Richard Nixon after attending the "Bohemian Grove" retreat.
The world has turned a few times since the days when this was regarded as a "fun thing to do".
Things take on more of a political bend today, and these kids are just playing into an agenda they have no knowledge of.
Been there, done that. (Academy that is.)
Learned how to smoke and blow stuff up, among other fine things.
Logistics and deployment for the overthrow of a government facility?
Second year crap, an easy course. Urban combat operations?
Fun sophomore class, with lab time.
"Things take on more of a political bend today, and these kids are just playing into an agenda they have no knowledge of.
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Bovine excrement!
But, times have changed. People have lost their sense of humor.
Too bad.
No, they'll just go to college at Yale.
see earlier thread about naked parties.
Your education dollars at work.
They may not learn their abcs, how to read, or how to speak the English language correctly but they do learn every sexual perversion known to man and a few that are not.
This is another one that can be traced directly back to that great democrat, one jimmy carter and the department of education he created.
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