Seventh Grade -- Making it Official!

At the Gary Comer Campus, as 5th and 6th grade students, the kids wear a gray uniform shirt that is more of a polo/t-shirt combo than anything else. For the first two weeks "downstairs" the 7th grade wears the same. Once the two week mark passes, we have a ceremony where the 7th grade transitions into a more formal and "business-like" uniform: crisp white, button down shirts (or up depending on where you are from), with ties. And yes, the boys have to wear legitimate "tie-me-every-day" ties. The ceremony is beautiful! Our choir sings, the 8th grade "adjusts" the ties of the 7th grade welcoming them, and then all the men of the community make their way to each 7th grade students, encouraging them!