good day, weird rule

I was able to take my students to the auditorium, to watch on "the largest screen in Urbana" one of the teachers announced, Obama's swearing-in ceremony. So exciting!

When George Bush's face came onto the screen, they all laughed. He's like, so uncool.

After school, we had a faculty meeting at which we were reminded of the rule in the student handbook against scarves. Students are not allowed to wear scarves or bandannas of any kind anywhere on their bodies. The point was raised by a teacher that the scarves are not necessarily gang symbols, as the rule supposes, but are actually just, um, fashionable. She was like, "Somebody was telling me that this is part of some new 'hipster' (?) thing? Well. Hipster? Not welcome here!" ha.