More Teens Wearing Pajamas To School

AP ^ | October 18, 2005 | Staff

[Millee]

There's a new fad of students -- mostly girls -- wearing pajama bottoms to school, and so far administrators are not making a fuss about it.

"Some days you don't want to get dressed up for school. Like when it's raining and cold. You just want to be cozy," said Ben Lomond High School junior Elvia Escalante, 16.

School administrators in Ogden, Weber and Davis school districts say the pajamas have been modest and there hasn't been a problem.

"There are worse things a kid could wear to school," said Ross Lunceford, principal of Hillcrest Elementary School in Ogden.

"There's a fine line there, and I think sometimes we need to pick our battles. Should we get into a tussle over pajamas?" said Eileen Nicholas, student and family services teacher specialist for Ogden district.

Some students don't think much of the attire.

"They may be comfy, but it makes you look trashy and it gives you the idea you can just slack off for the day," said Ben Lomond High School senior Alena Marshall, 18.

[John O]

Thank you.

[I'm ALL Right!]

We used to get sent home if our shorts/skirts were less than a $1.00 bill length higher than our knees. Teachers actually stood in the halls with dollars, measuring. Unreal how things have changed.

[gitmo]

Unfortunately, it wasn't a dream.

[SuziQ]

And don't worry, the kids will begin wearing the PJs to mass - if they haven't already.

At the private Catholic Girls' school in the next town over, they've been wearing sweats and p.j.s to school for years! I guess the more you pay, the crappier the dress? At our son's Catholic Boys' school, they're still required to come to school looking like they mean business; sport coat, ties, khakis, belt, and NO sneakers.

[Hyzenthlay]

During my school's 'retro day', the girls were all wearing cut-up sweaters, leg warmers, and spandex. The funny thing was it was all the popular girls who were doing it, like the ones who get voted best dressed. It was so funny. And for 'twin day', 2 kids wore bathrobes. I see PJ pants in school all the time, anyway.

[SuziQ]

I'm reading a cop novel, and the author calls that style 'jailing' because that's what the guys looked like when they were taken to jail and their belts were confiscated. Now all the little inmate wannabes are copying that style.

[Hyzenthlay]

I've seen PJ's in church. On sunday morning young couple wore plaid pants instead of their usual all-black wardrobe. On wed. nites it happens all the time.

[SuziQ]

I have no problem with women wearing pants to Church, as long as they are nice and clean, and not low rider blue jeans with the skimpy top to go along with them. I wear pants all the time, especially in the winter when it's too dang COLD for dresses!

[Irish Queen]

Well, the jammy and fuzzy slipper look is quite old. My 84 year old mother has been wearing nylon tricot jammy bottoms (sans panties or bra), and fuzzy slippers for at least fifteen years. She considers all her jammy / slipper outfits quite dressy. Her favorite wedding outfit consists of red Vanity Fair bottoms, a top from K-Mart with an eye-popping fruit design, and pink fuzzy slippers.

One time after a wedding, we stopped in Old Town Pasadena for dinner, and she was mistaken for a pitifully poor bag lady. In the actuality, Mother is very well-off. She has a full staff (cook, housekeeper, five personal attendants, and a gardener) to attend to all her needs.

[DustyMoment]

Here is what you responded to me: If you and others would look past appearances and actually get to know some of these kids personally, you'd see your preconceived ideas of them are really silly.

At that time, all I had said was that PJs were inappropriate attire for school and she should have been sent home and told not to return until she wore appropriate attire. Period. I didn't make any assumptions about her character based on her appearance, but YOU ASSUMED that I had for whatever reason you had. I don't know the individual and made no judgement about her character as your comment implies, I made a blanket statement about the inappropriateness of wearing PJs to school.

Your response assumes that I had made any sort of reference about her behavior or character based on appearance. I didn't and don't. YOU projected YOUR beliefs upon me.

With respect to my reference to them as the darling offspring of Generation Xers and Yers, I don't know what you read into that but, I'm willing to bet that to their parents, they are darling offspring. That's not a stereotype, that's simply a fact.

[DustyMoment]

I would remind you of this song by Mike + the Mechanics:

Every generation blames the one before
And all of their frustrations come beating on your door
I know that I'm a prisoner to all my father held so dear
I know that I'm a hostage to all his hopes and fears
I just wish I could have told him in the living years

More crumpled bits of paper filled with imperfect thoughts
Stilted conversations, I'm afraid that's all we've got
You say you just don't see it, he says it's perfect sense
You lust can't get agreement in this present tense
We all talk a different language, talking in defense

Say it loud, say it clear, you can listen as well as you hear
It's too late when we die to admit we don't see eye to eye

So we open up a quarrel between the present and the past
We only sacrifice the future, it's the bitterness that lasts
So don't yield to the fortunes you sometimes see as fate
It may have a new perspective on a different date
And if you don't give up and don't give in you may just be okay

Say it loud, say it clear, you can listen as well as you hear
It's too late when we die to admit we don't see eye to eye

I wasn't there that morning when my father passed away
I didn't get to tell him all the things I had to say
But I think I caught its spirit later that same year
I'm sure I heard his echo in my baby's newborn tears
I just wish I could have told him in the living years

Say it loud, say it clear, you can listen as well as you hear
It's too late when we die to admit we don't see eye to eye

[PleaseNoMore]

I'm not familiar with Mike and the Mechanics. But the words are nice.

[PleaseNoMore]

I inferred your "darling offspring" comment was sarcastic. I'm still not sure it wasn't.

[Fintan]

 

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Clothing has blurred to the point where it's hard to determine pajamas from regular clothes. Lots of students don't wear jackets or winter coats either, they just wear hoodies now.

When I went to school one of my favorite pants were those track pants or sweatpants you can just throw on and not have to worry about ironing.

[kcvl]

"Some days you don't want to get dressed up for school. Like when it's raining and cold. You just want to be cozy," said Ben Lomond High School junior Elvia Escalante, 16.

Some days you may not want to go to work at your job like when it's "raining and cold". What will this person do then? Stay home or wear her pajamas? Why in the world are her parents allowing her to wear her PAJAMAS to school?! She obviously has little respect for them, her school or herself.

[kcvl]

Jersey ban riles Ben Lomond students

Friday, October 7, 2005

By Amy K. Stewart
Standard-Examiner staff


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Students have been talking about staging a protest and wearing jerseys to school on a specific day, but haven't because they said administrators may suspend them.

Now the teens are talking about circulating petitions.

"I think banning jerseys is the lamest rule ever," said junior Elvia Escalante, 16.

"How are they gang-related? It's sports-related. That is so stupid. Whatever," Escalante said.

[XEHRpa]

I saw the craziest thing the other week. I was driving home from work and saw several teenagers walking along the sidewalk with those paper cutout Burker King crowns on their heads. I was thinking, man we got some awfully immature teens.

Then, about a week later I saw a kid riding his bike down the street. He had on a bike helmet, and taped to the helment was a paper, cutout Burger King crown. I just about split a gut laughing. Only then did I realize it is probably a revenge of the nerds situation at work in the local schools.

[GraniteStateConservative]

Women KNOW that skin and that kind of dress attracts men and that's why they use it. I don't believe any woman that claims ignorance or innocence in this area.

In college, I asked this friend girl about that and she said that, yes, girls who show cleavage are aware that their cleavage is showing, and that they aren't surprised when men look and, when they show it, they mostly expect the looks and, in fact, usually, desire it.

[kcvl]

I found this...


An often overlooked perk at Burger King is its penchant for handing out low-budget jewelry. I'm talking about the venerable old Burger King cardboard crown, free to any student who has the courage to ask. Aside from its obvious function as a classy piece of headgear, Burger King's crown also serves as a great sweatband. I jogged around Green Lake wearing one of these. Passersby filled my world with smiles.

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Stick with Burger King's traditional gold-and-red crown, the one with the Burger King logo tastefully emblazoned across its faux-foil surface. That's class. You're the King, now!