Goths in school... - Page 21

c130 · 09-20-2006, 01:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Darkbender423

Words of truth

Well said.

Kiinu · 09-23-2006, 01:54 PM

All I have to complain about dresscode-wise is...

They won't let me wear my stinkin cat-ears anymore...

I went to Anime Boston Last year in May... I bought Cat-ears there... I wore them TO SCHOOL for that last monthand a half or so of school... Nobody was offended... half of the teachers called me 'cute' (as you can see... 'goth' is not something my school is unfamiliar with)

this year... they told me I'm no longer allowed to wear them... though I can still paint whiskers on my face or go to school with Visual Kei makeup on... I can sharpen my nails and pain them black... I could tye-dye my hair.. I can wear chains and spikes and collars even... but not cat ears....

c130 · 09-23-2006, 02:01 PM

Awww that's just not fair. Wear them anyway.

Kiinu · 09-23-2006, 02:13 PM

hahaha then I get PMs... and sitting in silence staring at a wall til 5... isn't all that fun

xBlood-Rosex · 09-26-2006, 05:25 PM

Actually the dress code in our school only applies to the preps- No tops that show your midriff, tank tops, flip flops, really short shorts ect.

But I did one time get in trouble for wearing a pair of tripp armwarmers. They had little tiny buckels on them and our vice princible saw them during lunch and told me I couldn't wear them because he thought I would hurt someone.

Neurosis · 09-27-2006, 04:04 PM

I am in an Air Force Junior ROTC high school, and being in there, they do not enforce strict laws as to how "Gothic" you can be.

Of course, you must wear a standard uniform, but I do my tricks there. My bangs are dyed red (I have naturally black hair), I do wear eyeliner (a decent style), and I fix my face to a few shades paler, but not pale enough to be considered dead. I bought myself a Manic Panic HairBag in Purple Haze, which is a messenger bag with the Manic Panic logo and Purple Haze hair trimmed on the ends. I also tied a pair of Cy-X Goggles to the bag.

It does not only have to be your bodily style, but also your bag can do so much as well!

--Neurosis

Maj.Bromley · 09-27-2006, 05:30 PM

Your in JROTC? Thats cool, Im currently enrolled in ROTC at the Air Force Academy (fuck yeah),

BlackButterfly · 09-27-2006, 06:36 PM

I remember my school days. I had moved around so much that I think in my final seven years, I had been to at least a dozen different schools, and have experienced reactions from

"Wow, a black goth" to
"*glare* Devil-worshipper!"

Good times, believe me... I've never experienced the bans you guys have, though. That's rather unfortunate (although I understand the thing about spikes--long spikes can be hazardous.). Most of the dress code remarks I have seen have been on profane or suggestive slogans/graphics on clothing showing skin, razor-blade/safety-pin jewelry, baggy clothinng and gang-related attire.

I had to suppress the outward aspect of my expression at school for most of my last two years of high school at the request of my sisters (who I would do almost anything for). They wanted to "fit in", and it just wouldn't do to have a sister who was so outwardly goth when one was a prep and the other was so into hip-hop. Looking back, I guess I didn't have to do it--I was known at my school, but more by the teachers than the students. I never strived to be popular--since I was always the "new kid", that kind of thing eventually became trivial. Unfortunately, my sisters were both caught up in that whole image thing... I guess in the end I did it because I knew that I could still do "me" without advertising it, so it didn't matter.

GrimTheLost · 09-27-2006, 09:17 PM

I remember I got in trouble for wearing a black trenchcoat because it was "gang related". But the assistant principal who busted me wore a brown one a few days later.

kitten · 09-28-2006, 01:12 PM

My school is okay with pretty much everything. as long as girls dont have thongs and bras showing and you cant see guys boxers. We can wear makeup, guys and girls can, and we can pretty much wear whatever goth-style clothes we want, lol. The only thing anyone ever got in trouble for was a senior wore a shirt with a pentagram on it and a teacher didnt like it, but he fought it and he was allowed to wear it after all.

X-Rose-Of-Your-Promise-X · 10-25-2006, 12:33 PM

In My old school (which was a middle school), pretty much all the teacher had a problem with the way i looked, my head teacher accused me of not washing because i didnt know i had eyeliner on still from the day before and my DT teacher accused me of not being a man for wearing black nail varnish and black eyeliner. I got excluded for dying red streaks in my hair. Me and my girlfriend wore Metallica and Cradle Of Filth hoodies to school usually and we had them confiscated when the chavs got to wear their lonsdale stuff...Our uniform was a green jumper, a white shirt and a green and yellow striped tie and black trousers (pukes). Shoes- I got sent to internal exclusion a few times for wearing black skate shoes. My head teacher broke them by tying them up really tight because the tongue was too big and they could come off too easily apparently. I have quite long hair and they never said anything about that though...one kid got dreadlocks, and didnt get told off, surprisingly, maybe i would have because they really didn't like me. At my new school we have blue polo shirts and blue jumpers with the usual trousers, we have to wear leather school shoes, I wear my Dr Martens, occasionally black skate shoes but i get told off for that. Piercings, we cant have any facial piercings but we can have 2 ear piercings but everyone gets away with more. I used to cut myself and have scard on my wrists, I had to tell my head teacher why i was wearing wristbands and he let me off. I got a CoF hoody confiscated for some reason though...it was raining and freezing but they still took it off me, so i froze for the rest of the day, probably because it's not a 'coat', chavs get away with their 'lightly colored, non threatening, satan woshipping' hoodies, which is stupid. Anyway, I'll finish my rant there.

StaticVIP · 10-25-2006, 01:09 PM

yes. plenty of times. but we ignor them the way they ignor us.

no studded belts, no fish nets no chains no spikes.
The main one there trying to ban is dread locks. which i believe is discrimination.....

but i wear what i feel comfortable in to school and if that consist of my chain wallet and chain studded belt so be it.

kitten · 10-25-2006, 02:11 PM

I think its dumb to ban clothing just because they dont like the style. They arnt allowed to do that and I would fight it. as long as it doesnt hurt other people, then there isnt a problem.

StaticVIP · 10-25-2006, 03:50 PM

Its funny though they say its a problem, when the're the ones making it a problem

Haunted House · 10-25-2006, 04:04 PM

I get crap all of the time from students as well as security about my stuff. Sometimes I come back with witty comments ,though like this.

Some jerk in the Lunch room: Hey, have you guys been to the zoo lately? Theres alot of peacocks around *points to me and my deathhawk*

Me: Yes, I have been to the zoo lately, though what I didn't get to see was the social robot asshole exibit.

He just turned away from me after that. It was great.

Godslayer Jillian · 10-25-2006, 04:07 PM

Down at my school, last year they specifically prohibited my wearing black.
This year we're using uniforms. But through this Homecoming week, we can dress different styles, and I have worn mostly black these days.
I would have hoped they would tell me something, but it seems even the administration has grown fond of me. I'll miss this week when it's over.

Haunted House · 10-25-2006, 04:15 PM

Thats terrible, though. Telling you that you can't wear black. My school is very leanient with that. I didn't even get in trouble for my leather jacket saying "Sex Gang Children" really big on the back.

Godslayer Jillian · 10-25-2006, 04:18 PM

Well, yah, but I'm on a very conservative school. I've gotten in trouble for several things that go from "wearing things that represent death" to proposing a Humanist Club to "trying to distance my fellow classmates from the words of Christ."
But Gawd! how I love pushing boundaries.

roserougesang · 10-25-2006, 05:11 PM

My school is quite lenient on casual clothes day (and other things as well), but then again I haven't pushed many boundaries....

Is it just me or are Anglican Christian schools more lenient than Catholic Christian schools?

knightmare · 10-25-2006, 05:18 PM

Jillian, are you a Satanist in a conservative Christian School? How did that happen?
That's like Michael Jackson in prison..Michael, the other white meat. I agree that Catholic are stricter regarding rules but not as strict as they were back then, I'd probably be whipped to death.

Godslayer Jillian · 10-25-2006, 05:34 PM

I was a satanist before entering that school in my sophomore year.
Previous to that I went to school in Mexico, but I wanted to go to school in America for high school because of the SATs and ACTs and colleges care more about the high school grades than anything else, and they told me school is easier in America, so I'd get easy A grades.
My parents only allowed me to study in America if I went to a private school. The choices were down to a Christian school or a Catholic male school.
And that's the story of my ironic situation.

knightmare · 10-25-2006, 08:30 PM

Smart choice, the Christian school is definitely better than an all-Catholic male school. I heard that the priests in the South like to give more than just the sacraments..

It must be interesting being a satanist in proximity of the "Bible Belt", I guess you must be a Splinter Cell: Double Agent!
Do you even get to express your viewpoints?

Godslayer Jillian · 10-25-2006, 08:49 PM

Haha! I like the way you talk.
I do get to say some of my oppinions. On a class called Apologetics, we are supposed to study how to defend the Christian faith, and as so, if there's an argument against Christianity that we have, we have to voice it.
So: yay!

badteccy · 10-26-2006, 10:41 AM

I go to a Catholic school (WHY?????) so uniforms must be worn, I still am the token "goth" at school.
One of the reasons is because I have "black hair.
A) My hair is dark brown.
B) That is fantasically stupid.

Lia · 10-26-2006, 01:27 PM

In my school it's like a ban against everything. You have to wear uniforms (dark green..). You're not allowed 'un-natural colour' in your hair, etched patterns in your hair (I wouldn't want that anyway xD), any make up whatsover, any jewellery whatsoever. Everyone just puts it on anyway, stuff the rules. They're made to be broken.