The 100% truth is I went to first grade barefoot, and no shirt. All I wore was a pair of shorts most days. The fact that it was Hawaii does not matter does it?
I really did go to school most days barefoot, often without a shirt. It was not that my parents could not afford my clothes and shoes I just would not wear them. That same year when it was time to go to church for Easter Sunday I did not have a pair of shoes that would fit. I wore flip flops to church and that was getting dressed up! My mom would buy me shoes that I never did wear and I would outgrow them.