Good luck with enforcing that.
Courtesy of NYT:
Students in the capital of Illinois are not allowed to wear hats, bandannas, sunglasses, pajama pants or slippers in school buildings. And that dress code now extends to their bedrooms and kitchen tables.
“We don’t need students in pajamas and all those other things while on their Zoom conferences,” Jason Wind, the district’s director of student support, explained during an online board meeting of Springfield Public Schools this week.
Along with the clothing requirements, the district’s remote learning guidelines mandate that students be “sitting up out of bed, preferably at a desk or table.”
A district spokeswoman, Bree Hankins, said in a statement that the remote learning guidelines were developed collaboratively with teachers, administrators and parents, and that the dress code reflected what the students would be wearing when in school.
The district, which has about 14,000 students, does not expect to be punitive during remote learning, Ms. Hankins said.
“Our hope is that students approach remote learning as they would in a classroom setting, to the extent possible given each student’s individual circumstances,” Ms. Hankins said. “However, we understand the interpretation of the dress code in a remote learning environment will differ from a normal school setting.”
I think this is one of the dumbest things I have heard since this pandemic began that was not uttered by Trump.
I mean I could support a policy that said students should be fully dressed and not wearing t-shirts with offensive messages on them during Zoom classes, but beyond that who cares?
It is going to be very hard to get these students to participate in the first place, why make it even more restrictive?
And what exactly would be the punishment for non-compliance?
Do they get suspended? From what?
Look I wear pajama bottoms almost 90% of the time unless I have to leave the house and have them on for every one of my Zoom conferences.
For one thing, nobody even knows what I have on my bottom half because I am always sitting down, and second, I think just about everybody else in the conference call is dressed in a similar fashion and we still manage to get work done.
This just seems like an unnecessary flex on the part of the Illinois school district and they need to drop it before kids start calling their bluff.
I disagree on the principal of setting standards of dress codes and the rationale that how one dresses can effect their mindset and quality of work. I believe it is disrespectful to stay in bed wearing pajamas for a class online and that gives a negative impression to others. If basic standards alienate children or sway them to opt out of learning I foresee a future of being unemployable in public, remote jobs requiring face to face meetings online, to even a selfish air of entitlement to not wear a mask in public during an aerosol virus pandemic.
In reference to my above comment I presumed the policy is about Zoom classes that pajamas and laying in bed as if one just woke up was the reason a policy was made. Not due to independent online course work. The photo of the child in pajamas in a Zoom like group gave that impression. I doubt many people are on Zoom wearing a pajama top or night gown or sleep shirt visible to their coworkers. Nor do students wear their sleepwear to school or older people roll into work in their sleep wear.
Oh stuff it. “Pajamas” are just a label when it comes to kids’ clothes. Ok, jammies.donhave to meet fire retardant standards, but that’s only noticeable.on the label. I bet I could hold up a kid shirt and you couldn’t tell me bif it was jammies or not.
And those of us in actual.zoom meetings? We keep zoom shirts near our home computers, For females, a pair of earrings. Who cares what anyone is wearing from the clavicle down. If you can scratch your ass on a zoom meeting and no one is the wiser, it really doesn’t make a dingleberry difference what is covering said ass.
As far as not wearing jammies pants to class, have you been near a college campus lately? It’s yoga pants, leggings ,sweats and jams.
Let us know when. You make it to the 21st century.
Oh, please. The stupid, it hurts. I wore a uniform and sat straight up in a desk and wrote with a fountain pen in a notebook held at a precise angle and with my left hand across the top of the page. I still couldn’t get math or history through my head.
I can’t wait to see what ‘proper dress’ outfits these kids come up with.
BTW, it’s principle.
This is so amusing, since few schools seem inclined to mandate masks. Come on people!
Wtf is your reverse point supposed to mean?
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/bill-cosby-files-new-appeal-over-conviction/
“more than 60 women charged that they had been victims of sexual assault by Cosby, he was tried criminally only for Constand’s assault, since the statute of limitations had expired in the other cases.”
“A dozen women who say they were victims of Cosby have filed civil suits against the actor seeking compensation for damages.”
It is called building discipline. Probably the most important lesson that can be taught for future success in life. Duh.