i should clarify though...
I was only in private school for a little under 2 years. Upon leaving the 8th grade private school i went to a public high school.
talk about culture shock.
It was quite an eye opener in more ways than one.
in the private school you had basically 4 or 5 pairs of shirts and slacks. and thats it.
in the public school, you never knew what you were going to see.
I once wore a T-shirt to school i got in trouble for... it had a golf ball logo on the front left breast.
on the back a golf tee, broken and laying on a torn patch of green grass with dirt with the caption
"Par Sucks" 
the kid in another class routinely wore a shirt which had a rooster and a cat staring each other down as if about to fight.
the cat was calling the rooster a "chicken" and the rooster was calling the cat a "pussy".
he never got into any trouble with it that im aware of.
and you always had the way way way too short skirts, problem is these were only worn by two types of women.
either it was the unattainable senior super model in the making, cheer leading team captain - though this was rare
or it was (more commonly) the 350 lb girl from the movie "
precious" wearing the mini-skirts
none of the cute, "attainable" girls ever wore that sort of thing unfortunately.
you had the bikers, the gangsters, the rednecks the goths, the preps and it was all really sad.
in the uniformed school, i noticed that 1. Cliques were way less likely to exist (though they did) but they were less distinguishable 2. nobody got in trouble for their clothes, 3. nobody got made fun of for their clothing choices - because you say something mean about someones uniform choice, it was inevitable that you would be wearing the exact damned thing you made fun of on Thursday
