So, just when
would you propose kids get some hands on experience learning to cope with such different perspectives, constructions on reality, opinions . . .
in the real world . . . as real as classrooms get . . .
. . . Oh, I know . . .
just before OThuga’s health care pulls the plug on you for being a useless eater in an old folks home.
brilliant.
Sheesh.
The classroom is a highly structured environment. Slogans and radical dress styles disrupt the experience and help hobble the ability to learn.
Disrupters and sloganeers are quick and pat at getting around dress rules. Gang colors, style of shoes, pins, extra short skirts, extra long legs on short pants — anything can become s disruptive message at times. A Principal has to be given the authority to make judgment calls, withing a broadly, not specifically framed policy.
Ckassrooms are not romantic places, there is no tolerance for dreamy ideals. Let the kids learn, and not be tossed into chaos.
Hooray for the school or district that has kids so self-controlled and mature that no rules or ad-hoc Teacher’s or Principal’s actions against such disruptions are needed, or in which what would be disruptive dress in a more agitated group of kids can be allowed! But do not imagine that the uncommonly high-standard group is the norm. Our popular culture trains and encourages the kids to be disruptive, to be disrespectful.