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I think this is being blown out of proportion. I agree with those who have suggested that these girls probably rarely wear skirts, and simply didn't stop to think about the implications of wearing skirts versus pants. Probably no one had stopped to think that it was necessary to point out the obvious, but presumably before any future concert the director (or parents) will remind those who are wearing skirts that they should pay attention to how they're sitting. I'd just chalk it up to a teaching moment and move on.
I agree. They were probably bored and were rocking back and forth, twisting thier legs etc. I'm sure they were day dreaming or something.
We are in a minority in that our girls only wear skirts. To enable active play, they wear short dark coloured bike pants under their skirts. This also means that if they do sit with their legs apart, it is not made more noticable because white undies tend to be very visible. I don't think its a common sense thing. Its learning a habit. I think its OK for the girls to sit cross legged they just have to make sure that their skirt is made of a floppy material and that there is enough of it to fall between their legs.
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Why aren't you criticizing all the guys who don't know how to wear pants (at their waistline)? And why aren't you asking why it sounds like all the girls were required to wear skirts? Why weren't they allowed to wear pants?
What is this, 1950?
Nah, 1970. That was the year girls were first allowed to wear pants to school where I grew up. I was in seventh grade. The year before, when my sister was a senior, the high school girls staged a "sit-in" where they sat down and lined the halls and refused to go to class until the school agreed to reconsider the dress code.
Flashing forward to now, our high school chorus requires black skirts and white tops for girls, black pants and white tops for boys. No one has protested as far as I know.
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Why does the SAHM vs working mom debate always get brought into parenting discussions? Surely even a working mom can manage to find the time to go her dd's band concert in the evening, and teach her how to wear a skirt.
Most girls will learn how to properly wear skirts by the time they older, I think the OP said it was middle school. As previously pointed out, girls just don't wear skirts as often as they did years ago. When my dd was in band during high school, (she's in college now) I never noticed the girls sitting improperly during the band concerts. And thankfully boys wearing their pants with their cracks hanging out has been out of style for a while here. I will agree that in general some high school girls dress like hookers, though----but it's not the norm. Believe me, those girls have a reputation known by the rest of the kids. Girls like that have always been around.
I was always a working mom, and my daughter knows how to sit nicely in a skirt. I passed on that secretarial-school training I'd gone through back in the 70's. Actually, I just told her about it, but it was kind of fun to watch her and her friends try walking up the stairs with books on their heads after I told her that's what they made us do!
Nah, 1970. That was the year girls were first allowed to wear pants to school where I grew up. I was in seventh grade. The year before, when my sister was a senior, the high school girls staged a "sit-in" where they sat down and lined the halls and refused to go to class until the school agreed to reconsider the dress code.
Wow....we must have been behind the times. We weren't allowed to wear pants to school until 1972!
Wow....we must have been behind the times. We weren't allowed to wear pants to school until 1972!
LOL. People in NJ are just wilder, I guess!
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