Filed under: public school
So we happen to live in a district that requires school uniforms in the public school. I have issues with that, but that’s another post at another time. I had to take Doodles shopping for the dreaded uniforms. As someone who had to wear hand-me-downs and garage sale finds for most of my childhood, I wanted to make sure that Doodles had clothes that would help her fit in rather than stand out. One of her best friends had already endured her freshman year at high school and knew which clothes would be acceptable both by the administration and by the students, so we dragged her along on our shopping expedition. First we ventured to the mall where we could hit up Aeropostale, PacSun, and American Eagle. We ended up buying all of the pants and shirts from Aeropostale as they were on sale and were popular with the kids. I took advantage of the opportunity to quiz her friend on everything school related that I could think of. I’m not sure if she was annoyed or amused by my questions, but I ended up with a better understanding of high school life. We also had to go buy a $50 pair of canvas Converse sneakers because apparently that’s the thing here. I couldn’t figure out when Converse got so popular or worse yet, so expensive. Yikes. Belts were also on our shopping list as they are required to wear a belt with anything that has belt loops. Doodles picked out a couple of ugly ones that were on sale. I did refuse to buy her the $35 backpack that she was admiring. She had a couple of perfectly fine, nearly new, non-embarrassing backpacks at home that she could use or she could pay for that herself. Of course the week before school started, her Godmother e-mailed her asking if there was anything she wanted/needed for school yet so she suckered her into buying it for her. Spoiled brat.
