I really love the area, but enjoy every little bit of progress made there so much. I mean, there isn't much, but I'll take what I can get. I'm sort of Bill Hicks about it, I guess you could say.

I know, right? What a coinkydink! It's either Cherokee, Mowhawk, or Apache, it seems.

lol I needed that.

ugh Yeah, don't remind me of that. Just... I always hate running into people like that, that claim they have some insanely small amount of Native American heritage, and absolutely do not.

Don't forget people with 1/63rd Cherokee blood in them. Those dudes are all over the place!

I went to a HS in the south, and yeah, you're probably right about that. We weren't allowed to decorate shit, but I'm sure crosses would have been allowed to fly under the radar.

Ouch... That's... that's not good.

It's probably less losing her mind, and more trying to find someone to blame and a reason for why something bad happened.

Yeah, when someone is dead set on blaming someone for something like that (especially if it's themselves), there's really nothing you can do but hope they eventually move on past it.

Hah Awesome. Let him know firefighters are cooler, IMHO.

Actually, there weren't any specific colors banned. It was more stuff like tucked in shirts, no violent images on clothing (skulls and what not), etc... If I've heard correctly, the school went back to the original dress code a few years after I graduated.

It really is. Our dress code got suddenly stricter after Columbine, too... because safety.

Basically, it was just something to make the parents feel safer about everything. Like, only an intruder would be in the building without an ID. That was their logic.

I always get a kick out the rivalry between the cops and firefighters in Reno 911. I like to imagine it's really like that between the two groups.

Columbine happened around my sophomore year. Once I was a junior, they had name tags, too. We started putting stickers on them and shit, but that usually got you detention or suspension.

Well played. Well played.

My thoughts exactly. I guess I'm naive, because I was genuinely surprised so many of them jumped on here so quickly. ugh

To be honest, it turned out better than I originally thought it would.

My wife knows your pain all too well. Best of luck, though!

It's insane, because there are plenty of teachers without a job just desperate to find something (anything!), that would be ten times better than her.