Goths in school...

[Hillary]

My school is pretty awesome, all my teachers like me and the only people I get negative attention from is the other students. As long as it covers my body, I can wear it. I've even gotten away with wearing a shirt that said, "Fuck you.' No one cares.

[maggot]

It's funny!

[Haunted House]

Some kid at my school who's always in juvy told some of the security guards that I was going to start a Columbine style shooting at my school. They believed him and I was taken to the security office for questioning. How horrible is that? No matter what I told them they said stuff like, "We're not sure of your actual intent." and "Do we need to get the police down here?" It was so frustrating cause I know it was my looks. If it were Mr. Trendy McPopular who said it then it wouldn't have been a big deal.

[Minyaliel]

Aww, that's a shame. I think people are being a bit uptight about stuff like that. I mean, it wasn't goths that did the Columbine shooting... Anyway, head up. Dress however you want. In the end, it doesn't really matter.

I had this really great experience today... for the first time in my entire school time I dared showing up at school in clothes that I felt are totally "me"; platform boots, ripped fishnets, knee- long black lace skirt, corset, a red chinese style jacket and a spiked choker - and my teachers all said stuff in the lines of "Wow, I really admire you for daring to wear whatever you want. That's really pretty, you know." That was so great... made my day

[Haunted House]

Thats really cool. People question my 'Alien Sex Fiend' t-shirt alot. I also have this pair of torn up, hole-ridden jeans that I wear fishnet tights under. I get more compliments than questions about those though, which is cool. I almost didnt wear them to school cause I felt people might not understand a male wearing tights but, sucks to them.

[maggot]

On the Columbine note, my thoughts are that if these kids were able to push two teenagers to the point where they go on a homocidal killing spree and LAUGH while doing it, they must deserve, to some extent, to die.

[Godslayer Jillian]

No one deserves to die. Teenagers overall are fucked up, but do you really think that justifies, even slightly, that their lives were taken by two revenge-ridden, blood-lusting, common-sense-lacking teens?

[happy_dude]

Do unto others as they do unto you, someone doesn't try to kill you you damn well don't kill them.
If you feel this need to kill others out of self defense seek help, NOW.

[maggot]

My logic is riddled with holes

[Circle V]

If someone fucks with you enough to make you unstable, fuck with them right back.

If someone kills you, feel free to kill them back.

On a related note, a kid at my school (mentally unstable, apparently, and rather hickish) claimed that he is the son of Malakai (whoever that might be... I'll look it up) and that he planned on coming to school today, it being 666 and all, with the 'Sword of the Antichrist.'

Needless to say, it didn't happen. I think that he's locked up somewhere.

[Circle V]

...Perhaps?

Malachi or Mal'achi (מַלְאָכִי "My messenger/angel", Standard Hebrew Malʾaḫi, Tiberian Hebrew Malʾāḵî) was a prophet in the Bible Old Testament and Jewish Tanakh.

He was the last of the minor prophets, and the writer of the Book of Malachi, the last book of the Old Testament canon (Mal. 4:4, 5, 6) Christian editions, and is the last book of the Neviim (prophets) section in the Jewish editions.

--Source: Wikipedia

[Immortal_Death]

i currently live in china, although im american, i get teased alot before because im a goth punk. no one cares about it now..

[Emerald]

We had to wear a school uniform. Bottle green windcheaters, grey cord slacks and desert boots for winter and a checked green and maroon dress for summer, very stylish. On casual day if you wore a uniform you would incur large amounts of general nastiness and bullying and if you dressed any way out of what was considered commercially fashionable at the time you would incur large amounts of general nastiness and bullying so for me it was a real win-win situation . I still have a deviated septum from being punched square in the face and knocked out flat courtesy of one of the school bullies.

[roserougesang]

Originally Posted by Emerald

We had to wear a school uniform. Bottle green windcheaters, grey cord slacks and desert boots for winter and a checked green and maroon dress for summer, very stylish. On casual day if you wore a uniform you would incur large amounts of general nastiness and bullying and if you dressed any way out of what was considered commercially fashionable at the time you would incur large amounts of general nastiness and bullying so for me it was a real win-win situation . I still have a deviated septum from being punched square in the face and knocked out flat courtesy of one of the school bullies.

Are you ok Emerald?! Some people can be such assholes sometimes, grrrrr. Do you go to a private school? In some cases, private schools seem to be a bit 'safer' than public schools because you wear a school uniform most of the time. It may not always look very nice but at least it saves people like us from discrimination if you go to a school that isn't very tolerant of 'individual dressing'.

[Emerald]

roserougesang - oh thank you for being so sweet and caring, I'm sorry I should have probably added that this did happen about 20 years ago. I went to a public school and no it was certainly not tolerant of anybody stepping out of the bounds of what was considered to be "normal", although the teaching staff did pay a sort of lipservice to the idea of accepting "difference". I must admit it is sad to read that attitudes don't seem to have changed all that much, one thing I will say from experiencing intolerance myself it has made me a much more tolerant person.

[Karnival]

I went to a school with no uniform, no formal set of dress rules except for no midrifs and no shoulder straps on girls smaller then 2 fingers wide. and no sandals or flip flops as you americans call it ( just so you know what im talking aobut) piercings were alowed. Any hair style anyone desired.

My second last year of high school consisted of about 10 at most actual goths in the same year as me and the one above. We didnt bring attention to ourselves, well except for my sudden oubursts of violence. We wore spiked jewlery on a ritual basis. I happened to be the one who got the jewlery banned and to have the principal threaten to bring the uniform back. ( protest in the 60's, uniform stopped being worn).

But really we were the last generation of goths at the school. All because good ol generation Y came in with the scene kids. So we didnt have much banning going on at school. The school motto was for individualism. I wouldnt have wanted a better school.

[Malady]

ah, yes. . .those dumb scenes. . .there are way too many of their kind at my school.

[wunky]

my high school had a uniform, but it did jack shit. the rich kids still picked on the poor kids and i still got 'mosher' yelled at me by small annoying creatures.

as for the college i'm at now i get no complaints, but i don't dress really gothic for college. i dress in black but no corsets/skirts/fishnets etc. i figure that if i have to fight with authority i can do it over something better than clothes.

[romantic]

Originally Posted by gothic_vampire

has your school done anything to stop the whole gothic scene?

Not really. They don't like jewellery, make up, accessories which aren't school wear but they're not particular aimed at Goths. You get alot of commons from people around our school but i can imagine that happens most places.

[Lyytikka]

there are sooo many things at my school. actually now its my former school.
anyway, they were really afraid of the satanism thing and they put rules like:
no wearing black!!
no make up
no wearing converse
no a strange hairstyle and color
no jewelery
no long hair for boys
and we also wear uniforms
just like rockandrose's school.

[goerikat]

There aren't a whole lot of restrictions where I go.

...Of course, the range of possibilities for gothic fashion in Kansas doesn't really extend far past hot topic, so they don't have much to restrict anyway.

However. There was a senior last year who was suspended for wearing 'untasteful choices of clothing' after he wore a mini skirt with fishnets to school. He had lovely legs, though.

[Alrek]

Luckily, I do not go to school, but the goths were well-tolerated there, they blended in because barely anyone was 'normal'...quite unique in retrospect.

[cradle]

Agh...all of the teachers in my school are old ladies.
and a couple of men but w/e
At my school, everyone is pretty much the same.
They all wear a georgia bulldogs shirt or hat, wear a white and read stripped shirt...and blue jeans.
I'm the only one there that wears whatever I want to...

[Don't Look Behind You]

my school is also quite boring in ths matter. Most wear polo shirts and timberland's. There just aren't any goths. A few pseudo-punks and metal-guys with long hair, boots and leather jackets run around, but that's about it. Here in Vienna they don't worry about goths at all like they do in america. The only thing they're worried about is the smoking. That's something they've forbidden in schools.

[Alaizabel Cray]

My school really doesn't care too much, as long as certain obvious body parts of covered. About half of the school is all pseudo-punk/goth, and they all think they're so crazy with their footless black tights, black hair, and their mary janes. The other almost-half is the preppy/gangsta population, and there there is enough said, I think. Then there's my friends who pretty much just wear jeans and t-shirts on a daily basis, and me who wears whatever I feel like, which means I'm known as "that psycho chick". *shrugs*