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Today is Phillies Day...

Benjamin Grimm Sep 19 2008 09:35 AM

...at my kids' elementary school. And they both decided to go in wearing their Mets t-shirts and caps. I couldn't be more proud!

metirish Sep 19 2008 09:44 AM

Very cool , do they anticipate getting a ribbing from friends , would there be other Mets fans there or is it very much Phillies country?

Centerfield Sep 19 2008 09:45 AM

Phillies day? What kind of awful school system is that?

Benjamin Grimm Sep 19 2008 09:46 AM

It's very much Phillies country. Last year my daughter was sent to the principal's office for wearing a Mets shirt! It was all in fun, of course. The principal gasped in horror and then sent her back to her class.

bmfc1 Sep 19 2008 09:55 AM

Since it's "Phillies Day", do the students boo the teachers?

TheOldMole Sep 19 2008 09:58 AM

bmfc -- deserves to go into the honor roll of quips.

bmfc1 Sep 19 2008 09:59 AM

TheOldMole--YES! Thanks for the honor.

Farmer Ted Sep 19 2008 01:27 PM

From the Way-back Machine: Ohio student punished for wearing Steelers jersey By The Associated Press September 17, 1999 NORWALK, Ohio - School officials have apologized to a boy who was forced to sit in a corner for wearing a Pittsburgh Steelers black and gold jersey on his school's Cleveland Browns' spirit day. Ten-year-old Eric Nutter and his mother, Debbie, have long been Steelers fans. So when Western Reserve Middle School marked the return of the Browns to the NFL on Friday, the fifth-grader didn't wear the Ohio team's brown and orange. He came to the school wearing a Kordell Stewart jersey, honoring Pittsburgh's quarterback. While he expected some flack from his classmates, he was surprised when his teacher, Brent Maillard, had him turn his desk around in the back of the classroom. "I had to turn around the whole time to see what was going on," Eric told The [Lorain, Ohio] Morning Journal, in a story published Wednesday. "I didn't like it." After about two hours, Eric changed into a Cleveland Indians T-shirt for gym class. He kept the baseball team shirt on for the rest of the day, and he was allowed to place his desk back in its normal position. Eric's devotion was rewarded Sunday night, when the Steelers beat the Browns 43-0 in Cleveland. Maillard and Thomas Turner, the school's principal, met with Eric's parents Monday and found out they were angry after the boy came home from school in tears. "Until then, we didn't have any idea at all that he had been upset," Turner said. "On Friday, he kind of thought that it was funny. His desk was only moved back a couple of feet, and he only had to sit sideways. "But it was all in fun. Apparently at some point his feelings were hurt." Eric told WKYC-TV in Cleveland that he got a phone call from Stewart. "He asked me how good I was doing in school and told me that if I have any more problems with his jersey that he'll come down and help me," Eric said. Eric's stepfather, Robert Counts, has asked Western Reserve Superintendent Dennis Bahmer to discipline the teacher, who has been verbally reprimanded. "We expressed our concerns to the family and apologized, and the teacher did the same," Bahmer said. "It's one of those things that started out in fun, but for some reason was not taken that way."

HahnSolo Sep 19 2008 01:40 PM

Wearing a Kordell Stewart jersey should get you sat in a corner.

Nymr83 Sep 19 2008 01:46 PM

bmfc1 wrote: Since it's "Phillies Day", do the students boo the teachers? They throw batteries in homeroom, and don't be the fat guy wearing the red jacket on phillies day...

sharpie Sep 19 2008 01:49 PM

If it was Mets Day they'd be stacking milk cartons on the sleeping kid's head.

G-Fafif Sep 19 2008 01:54 PM

Is Mike Schmidt the guest speaker on Phillies Day? "That other class knows you're better spellers than they are. You're in their heads. One letter, one syllable, one word, one use of it in a sentence, think 'small' and 'big' things result." Then he breaks down crying and all the kids make fun of him.