TikTok trend sees ex-private school girls share uniform policies
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Ex-Private Schoolgirls Revealed The “Horrible Shit” They Had To Endure During Their High School Time.
The revelations were sparked by a TikTok video of ex-private Catholic school student Claire Champion, 22, which garnered more than half a million views as she explained the rules she had to follow as a schoolgirl.
She explained how students at her school had to wear the same uniform and satchel, which cost about $500 and couldn’t wear makeup, nail polish, jewelry, or hair dye.
Ex-private Catholic high school girl Claire Champion, 22, got over half a million views when she explained the rules she had to follow as a schoolgirl
She explained how students at her school had to wear the same uniform and satchel, which cost about $500 and couldn’t wear makeup, nail polish, jewelry, or hair dye.
In another video, she explained that the only pieces of jewelry students were allowed to wear were a crucifix and signet ring
“They literally came over with a makeup wipe and took it out, then you had to sit in the middle of the class and rub your makeup off,” she said.
“If you get caught wearing jewelry twice a week, they put it in an envelope and put it in the office and you don’t get it back until the end of the week.
“At the end of the school year, some girls would come back from the office with several envelopes of confiscated jewelry.
“How damn f***ed is that?”
In another video, she explained that the only pieces of jewelry students were allowed to wear were a crucifix and signet ring.
In a third video, she showed how girls would queue up to have their uniforms graded by school staff.
“When we went through uniform checks, teachers would come down with packed bags and there were makeup wipes, nail polish remover, hair bows, and little envelopes for jewelry and shoe polish,” she recalls.
“They would stand in front of you and watch you take it all away. They would stand there while all the girls line up and you rub all your makeup off.
“You should fucking kneel and shine your shoes.”
In another bizarre story, she recalled how a vice principal followed the school bus for over an hour to make sure the students wouldn’t take off their blazers.
“He’s standing at the bus stop watching us all get off and anyone who got off the bus without a blazer was put in midday detention, he literally wrote them down there,” she said.
“These schools are really proud of their appearance and how the students look and present themselves, but so much care is taken in dealing with mental illness, eating disorders, bullying, the schools care about that.
“I just want to say that there really wasn’t much in place for something like that,” said Mrs. Champion.
Her video inspired other private school girls to come forward.
Former student of a private girls’ school, Yasmin, said: ‘This was the most damn thing about it (the school), they had security at every entrance to the school security uniforms.
“They had the guards walk across the road and literally spy on the girls to see if we were wearing the right uniform or our blazers.
“Security was literally waiting at the tram stop to pick out the girls who didn’t have their blazer with their sweater or their school star on.”
Former student of a private girls’ school, Yasmin, said: ‘This was the most damn thing about it (the school), they had security at every entrance to the school overseeing uniforms’
Rhea Miars, from Melbourne, said she was ‘so happy TikTok is finally talking about this (private school experiences)’
Another TikToker said: “Our teachers checked our lockers to see if they were locked and if not, they threw our bags in a giant garbage bag.”
Meanwhile, Rhea Miars, from Melbourne, said she was “so happy that TikTok is finally talking about this (private school experiences)”.
“I’m going to tell you the most horrible things that happened in my six to seven years at a Christian girls’ school,” she said.
“You literally have to have one type of sock, you have to have your buttons up to your neck to choke you and your tie has to be pulled all the way up,” she said.
“The most ridiculous thing was their obsession with what we did outside of school.
“We would have these meetings where they would discuss morality, ethics and values about what we did with our time outside of school, like not hanging out with boys, not going to the mall after school, not going to Hungry Jacks after school in school uniform. ..
“They were so obsessed with their reputation that it was just ridiculous.
“And unless you could play the violin, piano, or chess, they didn’t care about you.”