Students wearing shorts in February in central Pennsylvania

A brief rant/ethnography on the parking lot at a local high school

Every day as I drop off and then pick up my high schooler, I am dumbfounded at the number of kids traipsing into the school in gym shorts and t-shirts, with snow and ice piled on the ground and the thermometer reading sub-20 F.

The girls seem significantly less susceptible to the bizarre practice, although they have an equally confounding behavioral pred…