• nparkinglot@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    I wish I could remember the specifics but my high school had an extremely ridiculous dress code policy at one point. Mostly targeting girls, of course, but also had weird shit like “no large/long coats.”

    What I do remember perfectly though, is that a friend of mine and I, angrily pouring over the details of the stupid dress code, realized that capes were perfectly fine according to the code as written. So we both got huge capes and that was like a whole year of high school.

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      1 year ago

      Was this in the 2000s? After the Columbine shooting, a lot of schools banned big trench coats and other long jackets because you could have hIdDeN wEaPoNs under them

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        1 year ago

        That was what, twenty-five years ago almost? That’s a lot of people who have gone to school with that rule who weren’t alive when Columbine happened. It’s almost a shame we don’t post citations to why rules/regulations were added.

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        1 year ago

        Ahh, yes, of course. Forgot about that. I graduated 2010 so that wasn’t really on my radar at the time.

        Another favorite was “no flat billed hats”. I’m realizing now a lot of it had a very “we don’t want gangs. Well, all rappers are gangsters, let’s watch some hip hop music videos and just rule out everything they wear” vibe.