Left out.
2005-01-16 at 10:27 a.m.
Portland's encased in ice again, but alas, this year I don't think it's going to slow the city down. School will resume next week uninterrupted.Rats.
It did cancel Winter Formal, though, which will no doubt upset and depress any number of lithe willowy preppy girls. The other 90% of the school will move on.
Friday, there was an all-school assembly to crown the Winter Formal queen. The absurdity of the whole assembly was jaw-droppingly outdated. The girls who had been elected to the Winter Formal court took the whole day off school because they got their hair done. The boys they chose as their escorts got the whole day off too. The girls' fathers came in to escort them out to the gazebo set up in the middle of the gym floor where they met the boy of their choice, as the organizers rattled off insipid details from the Winter Formal Princess, like "If Ashley could date one of the friends, she said she'd date Joey so she could hear him say, 'How you doin'?' If she were a snack food, she'd be a twinkie, because then she'd never get old or be out of style. If she had to pick one word to describe herself it'd be, 'Out of control--wait, that's three words. See what I mean?' Sophomore Princess Ashley Smith." No, seriously. Seriously. All the Ashleys, Brittanys, Courtneys, Amandas and Jens you possibly shake a very large stick at.
Three princesses per year, and who, oh, who would ever be the queen? Because I'm so dying to know!
This is what we pull the kids out of class for.
What about the kids that aren't skinny, white, and tall? What about the black girls, the Latinas, the Ukranian immigrants? What about the fat girls, the short ones, the ones with bad skin? What about the ones who can't afford kitten-heeled mules and the Hollister shirts and the flippy flippy skirts? What about the ones who wear dark eyeliner, who crack their knuckles, who don't dot their eyes with hearts and daisies? What about the boys who wear dark eyeliner? Where are they in this school celebration? How does this assembly celebrate them?
Part way through the assembly, I had to leave. I was so uncomfortable and angry and disgusted by the whole thing. No wonder kids check out and don't listen to the school. If this is what the school recognizes and rewards, they don't stand a chance, and probably wouldn't want to.
Seriously? Barf me back to the fifties.
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