My husband and I went to our daughter’s middle school as she was one of the students receiving The President’s Award for Educational Excellence, for students with a 3.5 GPA or higher.
She was told to ‘dress appropriately’, whatever that means-different things to different people, I guess. We saw everything from dresses with heels and suits with ties to cutoff shorts and sandals with t-shirts. Does anyone know how to dress appropriately? Maybe I’m old-fashioned but putting on a tie or a dress for an ‘occasion’ doesn’t seem too ‘over the top’ to me. I know everything is so casual now but it makes me wonder if these kids will know how to dress for a job interview or what to wear to a wedding or funeral.
One of the names on the program was a girl in her class named ‘Satin’ which they had printed as ‘Satan’. As we’ve had countless papers come home with the kids from school with various misspellings, the most recent being ‘infant morality’ intead of ‘infant mortality’, we weren’t totally surprised.
Anyway, our daughter’s award had her last name misspelled. Annoyed, she went in the next day and asked them to change it.
Then my son came home from high school with his ‘math student of the month’ award and his last name was misspelled.
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