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Remy Break wrote: 4 Jun 2026, 16:05 I lowk have always wanted a dress code growing up..
BUT here's where Ill start yapping.

As a child, from preschool to halfway through seventh grade- so about... 2009? to 2017 (January), I attended a school for the deaf. Looking back, it was *kind of* an educational paradise as you weren't with your parent's all of the time, you had a cottage (now torn down with a giant dorm style building -_- in its place) for kids your gender and grade (6-8th grade boys stayed in cottage 321, 6th-8th grade girls in cottage 322. Elementary had the 30_ cottages but I forgot the numbers, not that it matters as they're no longer there!), you had sports, you had classes. It was kind of like a college campus, but with more of a rigorous schedule, even if it was set up like a college campus and not all in one building.

Example. The gym- there's two- are shared between elementary, middle and high school. It's its own seperate building, the gym that the cottages had used at night for rec? It was also used for "official" sports like volleyball and basketball even if they'd practiee in the other gym. We had two swimming pools and locker rooms. We had a whole playground and a bocce area, we could play disc golf and bike.

But I had seen what public school was like on tv, misleading me kinda, and I had always wanted to go. I'm actually glad I went, because I wouldn't have gotten the same degree if I graduated from the school for the deaf that I got from graduating high school. The school for the deaf also requires less credits to graduate while public schools required like 28? I think?.

The point is. Neither of those required a dress code, but I got so caught up dreaming about these things thinking they were so great, and while they had their upsides, they had plenty of downsides. Since we left the deaf community in that area has been increasingly becoming more of a jerk and all, the school has lost a TON of members, they put up a lot of restrictions, refused to allow certain parents to go to the school even if they had nothing on them, if they didn't sign they weren't allowed. The superintendent has been replaced 3? 4? times since 2017.

Public School gave me theater. But it also gave me loneliness. I at least had friends I was able to talk to. I had two hard of hearing boys I talked to, both of them went to the same elementary school (deaf school), and both moved to the campus I went to for middle school to graduation. Sadly, I only got to get to know them for about a year and a half, but we had a lot of fun. I have to say, if anyone remembers me being a total jerkwad in the first few years of me being on hio, well.. remember how middle school was full of jerks? I may or may not have been one of those jerks. And it doesn't help because, if you remember what I said a few paragraphs above... the deaf community in that area is toxic.

I moved to public school in January 2017, I had to get started on things that other students my age and grade were doing. I was nowhere as badly behaved as I was at that school, but I also had no extracurriculars and it seemed that I was a year behind with what was taught all these years, or maybe that the school for the deaf overly simplified things and dumbed it down. They also get a modified version of the state testing, so when students do well on it, it's not really reflecting the success of the state but just how well we do on the modified version, not representing the state which had the unmodified versions.

Anyways I yap. As I said.