Dude. A life threatening bout of preeclampsia and miscarriage. God has sent you a message. You've got 19 kids. Count your blessings and close up shop already.

This is important - uniforms do not actually erase class lines. Kids sure as hell know. They can alleviate its expression (which I do think can be a force for good), but not the knowledge of its existence.

Oh snap! My school actually swapped from plaid skirts to khaki because people saw the plaid and assumed we were a Catholic school (*pearl clutch* They are PROTESTANTS, sir. NOT those Pope loving wine drinking Catholics. Grape juice is good enough for us sir!). Because *literally* every Catholic school in our area…

So tell us more! Did it hurt? Is it on one of your front teeth or is it hidden in the back?

I'll also add another reason why the class thing was bullshit- you still know who took the bus and whose parents had a nice car. Whose weave was jacked and who had the good hair. Who had the Lisa frank supplies and the good gel pens and who always had to borrow a pencil. Who had lunchables and who had reduced school…

I'll be the fuck-yeah-stick-it-to-The-Man crusader on here, which will make me way less popular than you.

Actually, the name tag thing is for safety. My son graduated high school last year and the most important dress code in the school was to wear your name tag picture ID at all times. This is for the safety of the entire school and is a first-defense in making sure that the kids that are in the halls are supposed to…

Ya know who really suffers from having to wear a uniform? People who don't follow gender norms. Women who want to dress masculinely, men who want to dress femininely, and god help you if you're trans* and figuring that shit out. Dress codes are supposed to make everyone dress similarly, but guess what, not everyone is…

I've never agreed with that, having spent time tutoring and teaching.

I come to school without a belt all the time. I wear a T-shirt and jeans to work all the time; in fact I'm wearing one right now with the logo for the band "YES" plastered all over it. I work in tech.

Were you able to use yours for purchases? My kids used theirs at lunch as well as using it for a school ID.

Rules need to be enforced constantly and consistently. A big 'gotcha' moment at the end of the year is neither.

I worked at a call centre run by a huge corporation. They had a very strict dress code that was in place solely to keep us in line/under their control as much as possible. The company claimed that the dress code was so that we would behave professionally (since none of the customers ever saw us). They were constantly…

Yet many professional, corporate environments have extremely lax dress-codes. It entirely depends on what you do and if your job requires you to deal with clients or the general public. In fact, there are a ton of jobs in the US where you can literally wear whatever you want to work.

I have no idea what your point is. I guess that's because I'm a sex worker too?

I work in a corporate environment, and I am able to wear pretty much whatever I want to work, including things high-schoolers would wear to school. It depends on what you do. This is often forgotten by folks who try to indoctrinate kids with conformity. Sadly, many educators forget that in many corporate…

Jesus Christ, I would flip my shit as a parent if I had to leave work to come get my kid because their shit was the wrong color or they had stubble. Did this school hire its administrators off the set of an '80's teen comedy?

I wear sexy clothes. I don't care if people stare. I like getting checked out.

I have kind of a sore spot about dress codes. When I was 14 I got in trouble for wearing shorts that were too short. They covered my butt, but I'm tall and they were old shorts. You could see my thighs. That's it.