Posted on 12/02/2012 7:39:18 AM PST by Kaslin
Just how far has the culture in government schools devolved?
School district efforts to professionalize staff is now considered an affront to teachers.
At least that’s the attitude emanating from teachers in the Hampton, New Hampshire SAU 90 school district.
The school board is considering an update to its dress-code policy for teachers, and, according to Seacoastonline.com, “several teachers are insulted such a policy exists, telling them blue jeans, sneakers, flip-flops and tank tops are off limits.”
Superintendent Kathleen Murphy said staff members feel the proposed policy is “derogatory and condescending.”
It’s derogatory to ask professionals to dress a little more professionally that the young children in their charge?
Thank goodness several school board members are rejecting this protest as an affront to their authority. Citizens elect the board to run the schools and make the rules. Nobody elected the union to run anything.
“’Who backs up management?” board member Ginny Bridle-Russell asked. “What happens if they go to a teacher and say, ‘I don't feel that dress is appropriate, it's too short,’ and the teacher (responds by saying), ‘Says who?’”
Board Chairwoman Charlotte Ring said dress codes must be standardized in districts like Hampton that have more than one school.
“I wouldn't mind going without a policy if we had one building principal and one school,” Ring said. “But we have three schools and three building principals, and what may be acceptable in one school might not be in another.”
The fact that any school board has to navigate a controversy over the employee dress code illustrates the alarming amount of power teachers unions have grabbed over time.
The unions use that same power to block changes that really matter to students, like new evaluations that increase teacher accountability and improve instruction.
The proposed dress policy in Hampton is on hold for now and the superintendent is planning to report back to the school board in January with more information, according to the news report.
In the meantime, teachers will continue to be free to dress like they’re on the seashore instead of a classroom.
My daugher had a teaching team, male and female. about 500lb gross weight. both dressed Walmart casual. When I want to confer with them I saw them both sitting behind their table with less than no information, smiling like cats, looking like factory workers.
My daugher had a teaching team, male and female. about 500lb gross weight. both dressed Walmart casual. When I want to confer with them I saw them both sitting behind their table with less than no information, smiling like cats, looking like factory workers.
My daugher had a teaching team, male and female. about 500lb gross weight. both dressed Walmart casual. When I want to confer with them I saw them both sitting behind their table with less than no information, smiling like cats, looking like factory workers.
My daugher had a teaching team, male and female. about 500lb gross weight. both dressed Walmart casual. When I want to confer with them I saw them both sitting behind their table with less than no information, smiling like cats, looking like factory workers.
team... it takes two to soak up the tax dollars now instead of one?
It would be nice if everyone was a virgin until marriage. That’s not going to happen. I don’t condone teachers having sex with students but that is from the perspective of a 66 year old man not a teenage kid in high school.
let’s have grown ups encourage young people to do the right thing instead of cheerleading them to do the wrong thing, why is that too much to ask?
When I graduated college in 1988, a number of my women friends were complaining about having to endure office dress codes. They said that wearing heels was painful and bad for the feet and hose were uncomfortable and cold in winter. They had a point.
But now, a woman can wear a pantsuit and flats and be acceptable in most places, including just about any public school. A man can wear a button-down shirt without a tie, dress slacks, and any number of options for comfortable shoes and be acceptable in most places.
In short, the comfort argument is gone. Now it’s just a case of people who don’t care how they look and don’t respect the institution where they work.
Who’s cheerleading them to do the wrong thing? Would it be better if I lied about things I did and thought as a high school kid?
I didn’t say you should lie. I said we should stop expecting kids to be bad. We adults should expect better and tell them so.
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