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The decor plates are called Paranormal Plates... Happy Haunts hint? ?
maybe this pack/trailer has a lot of hints for next year? like the japanese school uniforms?
WHY do people obsess over these? There are LITERAL Japanese school girls in this pack. Hence, Japanese school uniforms.
@Beardedgeek because, I'm not sure if you were around here in the beginning of the year, but the madea poll... official one... asking us what stuff related to teens and high schoold we preferred, and if we wanted them or not. That happened aroudn the same time they made the poll asking us Snowy Escape stuff, which activities we wanted to do on snow, etc...
Private schools and School uniforms are so alien to me. For me it's only England, Japan that does it... and some very rich and privileged Americans.
School uniforms aren't necessarily a bad thing though. And they really aren't a synonym of being rich or attending a school for the rich. It's actually a way to not tell how rich or not a person is and it's a means to avoid bullying over clothing, as everyone wears the same thing. It's ok if it's not part of your culture but don't bash it just because it's different to you.
It is in most countries, because in most countries public schools have no uniforms. So outside England and Japan (that I know of), it is only expensive private schools only kids born with a whole set of silver cutlery in their mouths can go to. AND they tend to be quite full of abuse (often romanticized abuse, like in Harry Potter); the most prestigious Swedish private school had to be shut down for a year because the hazings of new students literally involved torture.
That's not a problem related to wearing a shcool uniform though. Just their education.
I went to a grammar school in the uk in the 1950's and believe me school uniforms were the only way of getting rid of the class bias of those girls from richer families and those from poorer ones in the school. We all wore the same. They enabled Prime Ministers like Ted Heath, Harold Wilson and Margaret Thatcher to get to the top.
First of all... Thatcher is not... an uncontroversial figure to begin with, let's leave her be.
Second... I still don't undestand how that works unless you are forbidden to talk to your classmates so you never find out what street they live on. Not to mention other factors like racism and religious divides.
1950's to 1960's
Racism: Not talked about at all in schools, at least in my school. We had a large contingent of Jewish girls as it was in a Jewish area. We others were only jealous of them not having to sit though morning prayers. The Jewish girls kept together but were quiet. They and their parents had gone though 20 or so years of horror. We were not taught about the holocaust or anything controversial at all. I expect on my headmistress's instructions. We all needed a rest from strife. Religious instruction was only about the bible and was a class to muck about in and embarrass the teacher. Very few black, muslim people here yet. Racism yes, but only became really bad in England later when local areas felt overrun by other cultures arriving.
Class: We had rationing and clothing coupons until 1953 and nobody had many clothes to brag about, even the rich. It was match and mend time. The effect of the war on our parents was that they were as good as anybody and some of their commanders in war and leaders were donkeys. University places were being opened to us grammar school girls but you had to have Latin and Greek to get in. Grammar schools taught those, therefore helping girls break the class barrier in several jobs after. I just walked into a job when my headmistress phoned a boss she knew personally. Comprehensive schools were brought in later after secondary schools failed their pupils but don't seem to have helped the class divides much. We now have private schools for the rich.
You really cannot understand what it was like then unless you lived at the time like me and my family. I went to grammar school, my older brother was accepted into a Public school by examination for it. My sister went to a convent school (she hated it) and my youngest brother to a secondary modern school. He was the one who had the most fun at school being a fantastic athlete!
PS: I wrote donkeys as my first word was an synonym and not accepted! :)
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