Today is Phillies Day...

[Benjamin Grimm]

...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]

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]

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

[Benjamin Grimm]

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]

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

[Theoldmole]

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

[bmfc1]

TheOldMole--YES! Thanks for the honor.

[Farmer Ted]

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]

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

[nymr83]

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...

[Guest sharpie]

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

[G-Fafif]

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.