Students in the Illinois school district are not allowed to wear hats, Bandannas, sunglasses, pajama pants or slippers in school. All fine and good, but now they are extending this rule to home study as well. They even go further as to say that the student should be sitting up at a desk. All this according to an article in the Denver post dated Sunday, August 9, 2020. One has to beg the question just how far can this go with this? What can I expect out of parents who are already hamstrung with the coronavirus job situation, and while some students may have a desk they can sit at, that may just happen to be in their bedroom. And for those unfortunate souls who don’t have a desk what are they going to do? With that in mind what’s wrong with them sitting up in their bed as long as they’re sitting up and paying attention? We really need to question just how far the school districts can go trying to step into your home and tell you what to do. This might be a good subject for Bill whittle now or even right angle.
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I know for certain that, if my children were still in elementary or high school, I would be encouraging civil disobedience of any such dictates. I would instruct my children that the authority of the schools and teachers ends at my property line at the latest — probably it ends much further away that that. As long as the kids are dressed, it is beyond the domain of schools to dictate in people’s homes.
While I respect the position expressed by Denise Wenke that “[e]nvironmental cues” are useful for instruction, I argue that teaching children to think for themselves is of greater value, and arbitrary dress code edicts teach collectivism rather than individual thought.
I am proud that my children did not grow to be societal drones.
Based on the title I thought someone was advocating naked learning. Dictating a dress code away from the school building is definitely over reaching. Perhaps they are trying to teach kids that government can and will intrude on every decision they may make.
As far as I am concerned, the reach of the power of a school to dictate conditions for learning must, at minimum, end at their front door. Having been a teacher, I would further limit their power to merely maintaining law and order within their school. (My experience is they cannot even do that)
THEY are not “the law”. They merely implement the law and must not go outside of it. School “policy” as an arbitrary writ, not based on the law, from the superintendent of schools should be totally inoperative. Most importantly, it must not extend into the private homes in which the children live.
Considering that very few of the government schools actually educate the children they claim absolute control over, government schools should not exist! In fact, they have been centers of indoctrination of ideas counter to many parents wishes. Yet, they use the gun of government to extract an ever larger faction of the wealth created by the productive members of society.
These individuals have no direct control over the how much, when, and why their lives are so expended. This even as the so called educators DEMAND that more money is necessary to do a proper job of educating the children who are in their thrall.
I know it sounds like overreach, and it might be, depending on how they approached it. But if they are merely advising that students treat remote school as much like in-person school as possible, it’s good advice. Environmental cues can make a real difference.
But teaching them about lifestyles that God detest, that’s okay 👌. Our world is upside-down.