I used to vehemently oppose uniforms in the public schools. I’m not quite as opposed as I used to be! But then again I used to be a democrat, but took the medicine and recovered.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Harder
Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2003 12:18 PM
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Subject: Re: [Sndbox] Girls made to wear trash bag skirts
I think that uniforms should be implemented in schools that have diverse
racial mixtures to avoid the clicks and gang type behavior. I think it would
send a positive message to the students that they are all there to learn
there lessons and not to hate one another. JMO.
On Saturday, September 20, 2003, at 01:09 PM, AJ wrote:
UMM, IMO: The girls knew they were not to wear the jeans but the punishment seems a little different. All I can say is I bet they won't do it again. I have mixed emotions about the uniforms. I believe kids need there individuality but on the same token if all the children are dressed the same you take the "they have better clothes" and the there family is better off than others families. That does eliminate the lesser childrens feeling of self loss by not having designer clothes, etc. You know it does happen, the feeling of not being as good because of the clothes you have, however trivial it might be.
AJ
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From: Angela
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Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 8:00 PM
Subject: [Sndbox] Girls made to wear trash bag skirts
School Makes Girls Wear Trash Bag Skirts
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NEW YORK - Two Bronx girls reportedly had to wear skirts made of trash bags to class as a punishment for coming to school in jeans rather than their uniforms.
The sixth-graders at the Bronx Preparatory Charter School were made to wear the bags by principal Marina Bernard Damiba, the Daily News reported Friday.
Damiba called the garbage-bag skirts "Damiba fashions" and said they weren't meant to be humiliating.
"It was more of a fun way to say, 'Listen, guys, wear the uniforms,'" she told the News. "Let's not dwell on something as simple as wearing the uniforms when we have a lot of business to take care of. We have a lot of learning to get done."
Joy Vasquez, whose daughter, 12-year-old Christina Zuniga, was one of the girls who wore the skirts, at first said the punishment was "really wrong," the News said.
But after meeting with Damiba, she told the News that her daughter "got a lesson out of it."
Students at the school are required to wear a polo shirt with the school's logo and khaki, black, gray or navy blue pants or skirts that are at least knee-length.
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