Parents Opposed To Standard Mode Of Dress – also known as P.O.T.S.M.O.D. – is a group that’s formed in the past month to stand against the school uniforms that the Rockingham County Board of Education voted to impose on Reidsville Middle and Reidsville High schools last month. They have an e-mail address if you wish to contact them: it’s at potsmod@triad.rr.com. Thanks to Wendy Inman for passing that along....
I just got back in from tonight’s meeting of the Rockingham County Board of Education. The last time the board met during regular session, they voted to impose school uniforms (or “Standard Mode of Dress”) next school year at Reidsville Middle School and Reidsville High School. It was an 8-4 vote (with Herman Hines abstaining) that came after a lot of parents and students spoke out against the uniforms during public comments. I said after last month’s meeting that this is a way wrong measure the board passed and it should be rigorously opposed… as in “civil disobedience”.
Well, tonight even more parents and students came out in opposition to the uniforms (and not one in favor of them, it must be noted). These were some of the most passionate and eloquent speakers that I’ve ever heard at a school board meeting… and a lot of them were high ...