Couldn't agree more with you. Sorry someone felt it was necessary to be rude
to you offline. No one here wears any power suits either -- one would be
filthy by the end of the day with dust, chalk dust, and worse.
Our principal (male) is always in a suit as is our president (male). The
Dean of students only wears a power outfit if she is in front of the whole
school in the auditorium. The VP ususally wears dress blouse and skirt. Our
one remaining religious sister (SSND) wears a pants suit or blouse, skirt or
slacks.
We dress "professionally" but also for comfort. The big push is also that we
always have our badge on -- for security reasons, etc. The some complained
that their first names were on the badge - but our students are usually very
respectful and I've never heard a student address a teacher by her/his first
name.
Allan
Dr. Allan O'Grady Cuseo (Brother Donogh Allan, MGC)
Bishop Kearney High School Library
125 Kings Highway South
Rochester, New York 14617
585-342 -4000 x231
585-342- 4694 (FAX)
acuseo@bkhs.org
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Bless the day.
Come to aid us.
Angels stay!
Irish blessing
----- Original Message -----
From: "Linda Marie Gottman" <lgottman@EISD.NET>
To: <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 9:51 AM
Subject: Re: HIT: Off Topic-Student Dress Code
> Hmmm...we have to contend with hats, hoods, and walkmans and we have a
> school uniform policy. It's amazing how many variations of a uniform
theme
> we see each day in the hallways.
>
> As for faculty attire, I received a sarcastic email off list yesterday
about
> my comments about wearing panty hose. As I thought about it, I realized
> that "dressing professionally" is carried out differently in every work
> place due to many circumstances.
>
> I work in a very low economic area and wearing power suits, pumps, and yes
> even pantyhose is not generally done except for administration. I dress
> professionally but not in the power suit way. When it is so important to
be
> able to make some sort of contact with the students, to be the best role
> model I can be...dressing professionally with power suits can be very
> intimidating to the students.
>
> This building that I work in, though recently renovated, has A/C glitches.
> Sometimes in the hot months, the A/C works and sometimes it doesn't.
> Knowing that the A/C and heating is glitchy at best, we have had to adjust
> our wardrobe accordingly. On hot summer days, with barely any A/C, can
make
> pantyhose a modern day torture device.
>
> As professionals, just as we all have similar though different criteria
for
> determining budgets, purchases, schedules, and procedures, we all have
> different criteria for determining what is "professional" for our campus.
> None is more correct than the other, just more appropriate.
>
> Thanks for letting me express my opinions.
>
> Linda Gottman
> Librarian
> Edgewood Academy
> San Antonio, Texas
>
> lgottman@eisd.net
>
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