[atlantaprog] Re: WABE

>btw...I hate school uniforms...I think a kid should be able to show their 
>individuality
>...just as we could when we were younger...do you think we would be where 
>we are right this second if we hadn't been able to?

Well, I don't care very much one way or another about school uniforms.  I 
had to wear a uniform to school and I didn't feel like it suffocated my 
individuality.

>I found prog at 16, that was back in the early 80's!!!!  If I hadn't been 
>able to be who I wanted and was conformed to be like everyone else...I 
>doubt I wouldv'e tried to listen to Genesis or VdGG...I wouldv'e just stuck 
>with MaDonna and all that crap..;)

Speaking as someone who wore a school uniform, I didn't feel that wearing a 
school uniform affected people that way.   I first heard "Piper at the Gates 
of Dawn" in my art class in high school in the late 80s.  It was brought in 
by a student in a uniform.  It sounded pretty weird but kind of cool to me 
at the time.  I was introduced to Rush, Iron Maiden, Spinal Tap, The Song 
Remains the Same, Jimi Hendrix Live at Woodstock concert video, CCR, Stevie 
Ray Vaughan and much, much more by kids wearing uniforms.  We learned how to 
play Black Sabbath songs in my third period guitar class.  I don't think 
things would have been any more versatile without the uniforms.

Some of my uniformed classmates listened to Bauhaus, the Cure and Southern 
Death Cult while other listened to The Grateful Dead, CCR and the The Allman 
Brothers.  Some listened to Rush, Mr. Big and Joe Satriani while others 
listened to the Ramones, the Sex Pistols and the Clash.  You had to actually 
TALK to them to know what they were into and by that time you were in danger 
of learning about music that you may not have known about before!  I can see 
how it would be much safer to just know that the girl in all black listens 
to that damn goth music, so you can just stay away from her.  And those damn 
guys in the Tie-dyed shirts - you know all they listen to is deadhead stuff, 
so never end up in a car with one of them or you'll be listening to some 
live bootleg of the Dead from 76'.

Seriously, I'm not FOR or AGAINST school uniforms, but my friends from the 
neighborhood all went to the school up the street (which wasn't the school 
that I went to.)  They didn't wear official uniforms, but what they wore 
might as well have been a uniform.  They ALWAYS wore jeans and a band 
T-Shirt and pretty much hung out with only they people who dressed the same. 
  You could just look at a person and tell who they hung out with.  I 
suppose that's part of the idea behind school uniforms, you have to talk to 
someone before you know if you like them rather than judging them based on 
their appearance.

I really don't care one way or another.  I finished with school a long time 
ago and I don't have any kids, so what does it matter to me?  It just seems 
to me that if wearing a uniform prevents you from being who you are, the 
problem may not be the uniform.

-Wade

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