MysticMisty
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- Mar 12, 2013
Note: I originally wrote this post about three years ago in the Personal Lolcows thread, so if it seems a little familiar that's why.
The final high school principal I had had some odd ideas about school spirit. I only attended one high school, but in four years I had three different principals. The first once lasted through my freshman year but left during the summer break. I have no idea how long he'd been at my school before then. The second one made it through my entire sophomore year, but left halfway through my junior year. I don't know if she was fired, transferred, or just quit but either way after Christmas our new principal was Mr. Purple.
So one day late in the year we were herded into the auditorium for an assembly headed by Mr. Purple personally. So what did he have to tell us that was so important he had to cut every class short for a day? To yell at everyone for wearing black. According to Mr. Purple by wearing black we're insulting the school and all it's staff as well as the sport teams and cheerleaders. He then proceeded to whine about how at his previous school(s) everybody wore the school colors "all the time" but he hadn't witnessed that here. Probably because our colors were mustard yellow and forest green.
I didn't even think there was a high percentage of students wearing black on a daily basis. Sure we had the goth and emo groups, but that was a total of 50 kids at the most. I'd be shocked if there were 100 people wearing black every day, even with a student body near/over 1000. Even 70 seems like a stretch.
So yeah, Mr. Purple managed to yell at the school for about an hour over black. And for all his bitching about black he didn't bother to change the alternative uniforms for the teams/cheerleaders, which were predominately black.
Incidentally Mr. Purple isn't just my name for him, it's what everyone referred to him as in private. He earned this nickname the first few weeks at my school, when someone who didn't know his name yet called him Mr. Purple because of a tie he wore that day. Mr. Purple lost his shit and gave the guy detention. As you can see colors were kind of an issue for him for some reason.
The final high school principal I had had some odd ideas about school spirit. I only attended one high school, but in four years I had three different principals. The first once lasted through my freshman year but left during the summer break. I have no idea how long he'd been at my school before then. The second one made it through my entire sophomore year, but left halfway through my junior year. I don't know if she was fired, transferred, or just quit but either way after Christmas our new principal was Mr. Purple.
So one day late in the year we were herded into the auditorium for an assembly headed by Mr. Purple personally. So what did he have to tell us that was so important he had to cut every class short for a day? To yell at everyone for wearing black. According to Mr. Purple by wearing black we're insulting the school and all it's staff as well as the sport teams and cheerleaders. He then proceeded to whine about how at his previous school(s) everybody wore the school colors "all the time" but he hadn't witnessed that here. Probably because our colors were mustard yellow and forest green.
I didn't even think there was a high percentage of students wearing black on a daily basis. Sure we had the goth and emo groups, but that was a total of 50 kids at the most. I'd be shocked if there were 100 people wearing black every day, even with a student body near/over 1000. Even 70 seems like a stretch.
So yeah, Mr. Purple managed to yell at the school for about an hour over black. And for all his bitching about black he didn't bother to change the alternative uniforms for the teams/cheerleaders, which were predominately black.
Incidentally Mr. Purple isn't just my name for him, it's what everyone referred to him as in private. He earned this nickname the first few weeks at my school, when someone who didn't know his name yet called him Mr. Purple because of a tie he wore that day. Mr. Purple lost his shit and gave the guy detention. As you can see colors were kind of an issue for him for some reason.