Story: School Board Bans Flip-Flops, Crocs
This is certainly one of the more pressing issues in education, at least in Mississippi. If you take a look at the minutes from the latest school board meeting, the topic of foot attire dominated the floor. Why should we expect our teachers to be comfortable? Hopefully in the future, they can get around to discussing curriculum adjustments, budget allotment, and graduation rates.
School Board Bans Flip-Flops, Crocs
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This is pretty congruent with the trend nationwide to flex authoritative control over "problems" that can be "solved".
Typical that "authorities" have lost complete control over anything important.
Debacle in the middle east?
Dropout rates increasing?
Drug us on the rise?
Economy spiraling out of control?
Fuck it. Let's crack down crocs, yelling at graduation, and books.
During this past session, in addition to slashing the education budget and debating whether or not to teach evolution, the Florida State Legislature was seriously considering passing legislation that would have banned baggy pants (when the kids wear their pants with their underwear showing). That's the kind of legislative action we need! Oh, yeah, they were also on the verge of making it illegal to have steel bull balls hanging on the back of pick-up trucks!
The future of education is riding on dress code policies.
As a teacher, I personally hate being comfortable standing for 8 hours a day. I would rather focus on my bunions killing me than teaching 4th grade math.
That's just a silly thing for a school board to have a debate about. I can maybe understand disallowing flip-flops, but Crocs? Nurses, doctors, vet techs, and a lot of other people who spend all day every day on their feet love those things. They make sandals and Mary Janes and ballet flats, all of which look professional enough when worn. They're comfortable and teachers stand all day long! The wording of the new students dress code is stupid too. Most of what kids wear only causes a problem if you bring attention to it, which is exactly what a dress code and a call to parents will do. Seriously? Clothes with no holes?
Clothes with no holes?! *Wonders how you get your arms and head to stick out*. Okay, just kidding, of course.
This is a silly way to spend large quantities of time and thought, IMHO. Then again, I have seen the dangers of flip flops in a crowded school hallway (more than once I have seen kids with bruised knees and a broken flip flop after a classmate inadvertently stepped on their sandal as they walked behind them).
On the other hand, even suggesting that school boards solve the "debacle in the middle east", the national economy and such topics is as ridiculous and inappropriate as spending hours on a flip flop issue. *Chuckles*
Let's find a middle ground...'kay?
@ Iteachwell
it's not about the school board solving those problems. what it is about is a society who has lost complete control over things of actual importance, and so they begin to regulate minutia in an attempt to feel in control.
this type of behavior is not isolated to schools, you see it in businesses, politics, even in personal relationships. we are struggling to understand how a nation as great as the united states is completely unable to handle the current issues of the day. we react, by passing legislation such as this, that does nothing, but gives a veil of control.
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