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Best Girls😤🦾

If anyone had any personal experiences they'd be willing to share it would be greatly appreciated.

One day in 4th grade I was playing with a few of my guy friends. I don’t remember the details of the game, but it was a take on tag with a home base. We were running all around the playground until the principal, a nun named Sister Mary Lou, came out and said “Kathryn. Go play with girls right now.”

I was stunned. 9 year old me could not compute. I’d been playing with the guys since 2nd grade and it had never been a problem. Sister Mary Lou had been the principal since before I started at the school and had never called me out like that, and definitely not in front of nearly the entire school in the middle of the playground. I started crying and went to one of the corners were some girls were, but they weren’t interested in hanging out with me, so I just sat there and cried until recess was over.

And, for the record, we weren’t being destructive or loud or violent. It was just tag. We weren’t shouting rude things or yelling excessively, or running over anyone. The guys I was playing with weren’t called out, just me.

For what it’s worth, my mom was furious. When I told her about what happened after school that day she went right inside and told Sister Mary Lou that if she had a problem with who I played with, she was to call her first and under no circumstances was she to yell at me in front of everyone ever again. Not only because it was ridiculous to bar a girl from playing tag with some guys, but also because, frankly, the girls weren’t that nice to me. Mom assured me I could play with whoever I wanted and no one at that school ever talked to me about who I played with with or how I played again. But I’ll never forget that. I have no idea what made Sister Mary Lou come out and yell at me like that. It just kinda sucks because I was and still am a very sensitive person and I didn’t have a lot of friends back then, so getting yelled at for doing absolutely nothing wrong threw me for a loop.