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sooz06

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Posted: 01/21/11 5:57 am • # 1

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Repressed parents or original bad idea? ~ Sooz

School nixes cross-dressing day
Published: Jan. 21, 2011 at 7:00 AM

KING CITY, Ontario, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- Cross-dressing Day for students at a public school north of Toronto was canceled Friday after an outcry from parents, school board officials said.

Officials at King City Public School broke the news to the students as young as 6 Thursday that they would have to dress gender-appropriately Friday, the Toronto Sun reported.

"Opposite Gender Day has been canceled in the wake of concerns of parents," York Region District School Board spokesman Ross Virgo said. "The idea of (students) experiencing being people of the opposite gender has offended some people in the community, and the school does not want to do that."

Virgo said the student council had come up with the idea that will also feature days when students can attend classes in pajamas or wearing "funny hats," the report said.

The number of complaints the school and board received was not disclosed.

http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2011/01/21/School-nixes-cross-dressing-day/UPI-43091295611211/

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kathyk1024

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Posted: 01/21/11 7:17 am • # 2

I think it may have been a bad idea to begin with. Little kids may have been horrified by the idea of dressing as the opposite sex.

If a group of 11th graders wanted to give it a try as a kick, fine. Six year olds? Maybe not ready yet.

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roseanne

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Posted: 01/21/11 7:28 am • # 3

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I guess Sadie Hawkins day is out now too?

I can't imagine this was mandatory, so any child can opt out. Maybe I'm wrong. If it is voluntary, I don't see the issue. Why are they offended? Do they think cross-dressing is "catching" or that it may turn someone gay? Girls dress like boys all the time. Jeans, t-shirts.

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kathyk1024

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Posted: 01/21/11 7:40 am • # 4

That's girls dressing as girls. Jeans and T-shirts don't belong to boys. Sadie Hawkins day is everyday as far as I recall. The little girls in early elementary school were primarily the agressors.

I remember when my son came home from school in second grade and had a girlfriend named Taryn Chappell. I commented on her soap operaish name and asked how he got this girlfriend and he replied, "She asked"

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Cannalee2

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Posted: 01/21/11 8:54 am • # 5

kathyk1024 wrote:

I agree 100%...

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roseanne

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Posted: 01/21/11 9:56 am • # 6

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kathyk1024 wrote:

That was my point, I think? lol At one time pants and shirts "belonged" to boys. Since it isn't that way any more, I imagine it was the parents of boys who objected.

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Chaos333

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Posted: 01/21/11 11:01 am • # 7

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I vote repressed parents. The Student Council came up with the idea for their peers.

Our schools have a week of things like this, too. Participation is not required.

Pajama day, crazy hair day, sports day (to wear favorite team colors), and my favorite-occupation day where they dress as what they want to be when they grow up. Then the last day is by vote. One year, that wound up being "dance day" and once an hour they put tunes on over the intercom and all the kids got up and danced for 5 minutes.

Why not just pick something else instead of ruining the end of the week for everybody? School colors day or something?

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kathyk1024

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Posted: 01/21/11 11:08 am • # 8

I think Jason's school did this, too. I knew we did Crazy Hat Day and Halloween was Black and Orange Day. There were school color days etc.

In re: Most male students in my purview. If they didn't want to do anything the paper was left in school or lost. They noticed somewhere around second grade if there was some event or project or something their mom would think was cool and they would think was torture, the paper telling us about it would NEVER make its way home.

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laffinalltheway

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Posted: 01/21/11 1:09 pm • # 9