Everyone At Camden Catholic Wins Masters

Shocking news in Camden New Jersey, as a local Catholic school is making its students adhere to a dress code!

Ahh, yes, what a shocking development. A Catholic school being overly concerned with uniforms or a dress code? No!

Camden Catholic High School’s top administrators have implemented a new dress code that bars incoming freshman girls from wearing pants as part of their school uniform and prohibits both sexes in all grades from wearing polo-style shirts.

And for the first time since the 1970s, incoming freshman and successive classes will don a green blazer as part of their school uniform: button-up shirt and tie for boys, button-up blouse and plaid kilt for girls.

I went to a ritzy — squirrels did come into the school and chew the windows, so I guess it wasn’t all that ritzy — all-boys Catholic high school in the suburbs, and while we didn’t have a uniform, we all had to adhere to a slacks/shirt/tie/blazer in the winter dress code. (If you forgot your belt or wore white socks, you’d have to clean up after lunch.)

As such, I am well aware of the Catholic school penchant to worry about unimportant things like whether your top button of your shirt is buttoned. But since I had to wear a blazer in high school, these punk kids nowadays should have to wear one, too. All the better if they have to wear a hideous green jacket, a style usually only found on Masters winners.

The polo shirt ban has become controversial, apparently, because students don’t want to have to wear ties all year and, as kids, they like to whine a lot. (Duh. Weren’t you a kid at one point? If you’re reading this blog, aren’t you mentally one now?) Students passed around petitions asking to be able to continue to wear polo shirts, but the administrators ignored them because it’s Catholic school.

Camden Catholic tightens dress code [Camden Courier-Post]