[marshmallow]

Back to school time approaches and the hip public school student needs to know what's "in".

[Vidalia]

But the "Stripper", the "Whore", the "Transvestite", the "Drooling Homeless", the "Heroin Addict", the "Freak with 2005 Body Piercings", etc., are OK?

[FreedominJesusChrist]

I don't think that wearing P.J.'s to school has anything to do with being hip, it's called wanting to be comfortable.

[Texas Eagle]

It's not the coming to school in pajamas that's so bad, but man, that morning breath has got to go.

[Husker24]

Do pajamas = sweat pants?

[Dakmar]

Previous thread on same story

[El Gato]

Pajamas, the preferred attire of some sleepy and study-weary students, are no longer allowed in Hillsborough County schools.

"I think as long as you don't look like a hootchy mama, you should be able to wear whatever," said Nevena Novakovic, 17,

Believe me girl, in PJs, you can't help but look like a hootchy mama, especially to high school age boys. Even you wear the heaviest flannel PJs I've ever seen, and I doubt that many do.

You can be just as comfortable, and not quite so distracting, in sweat pants and shirts. Light weight T-shirts do require an undergarment of some sort to avoid "printing" and at least some amount of jiggle. I'm an old man, but I still find "printing" and jiggle to be quite incompatible with concentrating on the matter under study. Of course in my day, I found just above the knee length skirts combined with nylon hose and garters to be distracting also. To the point of moving desks about just to improve the opportunities for distraction. :)

[Consort]

Not even in night school?

[drjoe]

I'm sorry but the world has passed me by. Pray tell, what is a 'hootchy mama' [Geez, even my spell checker circa 2002 didn't have THAT in it!!

[AnalogReigns]

Why is it the modern fashion to look like a slob, freak or a whore?

Proud of getting a school to let students wear jeans in the 60s? Such contributed to the vulgarization and decline of our country....

[SamAdams76]

"Next thing they be telling us kids is that smoking ain't allowed in school neither. Them administrators are wound up so tight that the National Weather Service has us under a perpetual tornado watch, jus' in case one of them oppressive bastards should suddenly unravel!"

[Drew68]

Wait till those 8:00am college courses where most of the students simply brush the morning moss off their teeth, throw on a baseball cap (if male) or ponytail (if female) and show up in whatever it was they woke up in.

The post-college world isn't always much better. I supervised a large call center for a while and during the graveyard shift, half my staff showed up in pajamas and flip-flops. I didn't care as long as they didn't have smell bad (a requirement I did have to enforce on occasion).

[adversarial]

Po-jama people!
Po-jama people, people!
Lawd, they make you sleepy
With the things they might say
Po-jama people!
Po-jama people, people!
*Mother, Mary 'n Jozuf*, wish they'd all go away!
(Frank Zappa)