Posted on 05/17/2015 3:55:43 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
For years, Sharon High School parents had help finding their sons and daughters among the sea of gowns on graduation day: boys all sported deep maroon, while girls wore pristine white.
But last year, students approached principal Jose Libano with a proposal: end the tradition, which alienated some students. Now, all graduates wear maroon.
Around the region, longstanding customs of assigning graduation colors by sex are giving way to new realities, driven by transgender student activists and supportive educators and classmates of all stripes.
The change reflects a growing awareness that simple categories of male and female do not fit every teenager.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonglobe.com ...
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“They were not capable of distinguishing....My rule would have been if you have a penis, maroon is your color...if you dont...white is it....discussion OVER.”
They could do that or just go to the old way of simple, solid black. Was done for years before schools got into this “school color” stuff. Most, if not all universities do it that way no matter if one is male or female.
NASA must be desperate for money. Hence, they put out more lies in order to please their Masters for more tax money.
According to Al Gore’s movie, “An Inconvenient Truth”, the melting of the Arctic should have already happened in 2013. Florida, New York City and Boston are all suppose to be in the ocean now.
What about the Polar Bears? They are all supposed to be wiped out according to Al Gore? How come they now have the largest population in recorded history to his doom and gloom prediction? What happened???
We all had one color of robe way back then. This is the first I’ve seen colors by sex. The only color difference we had were sashes and tassels representing letters in sports, or academic/attendance/volunteer honors.
Looking back, our tradition honored accomplishment and hard work, not biology.
Yay, us.
Now we can sort boy, girl, and crazy. Give blue to the boys, pink to the girls, and straightjackets to those too mentally ill to know whether they are boys or girls.
First, I never had the slightest problem spotting my son and daughters in any and every graduation commencement we ever attended. These included Holy Angels High School in Richfield, MN, University of Wisconsin Eau Claire, Marquette University (Milwaukee) and Creighton University (Ohaha). It never mattered what color they wore.
Second, is there an educator left at any and every high school and college in the United States who isn't a granite pate?
For crying out loud this is such nonsense. I graduated a long time ago and we all wore black. Get over yourselves
I don’t recall ever seeing gowns divided by sex. But I admit I have not seen a lot of ceremonies either. I agree, it is silly to divide by sex.
Progress has become just another Orwellian type word. It is superficial progress they want. Superficial diversity, superficial identity driven. Diversity of the superficial is celebrated as an end, not a means. Get more Women, get more Ethnicities and Cultures represented but reject any ideas that deviate from the consensus and ostracize those who refuse to conform. It is the way.
“William F Buckleys home town.”
Where did you get that idea?
Unless their parents egg them on to “feeeeeeeel” differently.
The screaming starts when women get drafted and sent to the front lines to die in the next war, to make up for all the guys who died last time.
Huh, the only escapees around here from uniform black are those who have distinguished themselves academically.
So the moron administrators let the children run things, eh?
Wait until the kids want to euthanize them.
Awesome story! Thanks!
Brilliant idea, and makes for a beautiful formal gown at any time (of course I could be prejudiced).
Translated: giving in to new delusions.
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