I have my own personal take on uniforms at our school, I go to a strict Catholic Private school run by Nuns. It isn't that bad, but after 6 years of going to the school, I found certain loopholes in our lovely school uniform. Because we are so limited to what we can actually wear I just wear my school plaid pants, they don't look bad on me, but they don't compliment me either, the colors are dark green, with thin red stripes and thicker navy blue stripes. Six years later, I'm finally used to it, then I wear my silly polo shirt, which I only wear the first button unbuttoned, otherwise I would choke, and my school hoodie :3 We are only aloud to wear black shoes with a heel of less than 1" So I found these really comfortable black dressy looking shoes, but they are really sneakers. Recently they were telling us wearing our hair up in different ways every day was crazy, so just keep it simple. Everyone in our class disagreed and no one has gotten in trouble for wearing and 'odd' hairstyle yet. We aren't aloud to wear dangle earrings of any sort, so I plan on making another trip to Claires before school starts, I managed to find some cute zipper earrings that didn't dangle below my ear, so I couldn't get in trouble, while still expressing myself. Nail polish is also banned, which makes my life harder. I am trying to quit biting my nails, which I can't do unless I have Nail polish or gum. Well, gum is obviously a no. So I am stuck wearing clear, one of my friends forgot to take off her black nail polish once, so she had to wear a glove on one hand all day.
We aren't aloud to wear jewelry, at all, but I didn't listen to that either, and I wear my ring, and all 8 of my rubber band bracelets that I wear everywhere I go. As for our 'no coloring your hair' rule, you just aren't aloud to color your hair, no matter it be blond, or pink. One girl bleached her hair, but didn't get in trouble. While another kid dyed his hair red, and they made him cut it all off. This really limits me to what I am going to do when I color my hair this summer, obviously, I don't listen.
They also pick out people with different colored book bags. The rule is only school book bags, which I find funny because everyone had bright red, and purple and orange book bags, but the one year I use the wrong book bag I had to get sent home, to buy a new one. Either they want money, or they just like yelling at me. The same thing happened with my fall coat. I had a purple fall jacket, and you are only aloud to wear navy blue jackets. After that I just didn't wear jackets in the fall. What I find funny about that is, we went to around thirteen stores to find a navy blue winter jacket, we found one, for $40. When I went to school in that I was irritated to find out that winter jackets could be any color.
As you can see, we have some strict teachers, and staff. Or they just like to pick on me, which ever, I would much rather go to a public school where all I had to do was worry about everything the night before, and get up, get dressed, brush and put my hair up, eat and go. Not so many rules there, and relatively simple.
That's just my take though.
Tara
Too many boundaries!
