I don't wear formal shoes to teach in - am I a bad teacher?

[LilMissHissyFit]

terrible, clearly you'll be corrupting them...
Next you'll be letting them wear slippers and saying they come to a place of learning instead of a school.... disgusting
Here, have your P45...

 

[tangerinedream]

Has your head asked you to wear normal shoes? Have you made a whining fuss about it? If the answer is yes.. then yes you are!

No and no.

But, please, tell me why shouldn't I wear comfortable shoes for a job where I am on my feet more or less all day?

 

[bouncer_the_dog]

It is your responsibility to educate the scientists, doctors and politicians of tomorrow, and to do so in a pair of crappy shoes is not only letting yourself down, its letting the class down and the whole school down.

 

[tangerinedream]

It is your responsibility to educate the scientists, doctors and politicians of tomorrow, and to do so in a pair of crappy shoes is not only letting yourself down, its letting the class down and the whole school down.

Why are my shoes crappy if they are not made out of leather.

They aren't dirty or falling apart or anything.

 

[brix]

It is your responsibility to educate the scientists, doctors and politicians of tomorrow, and to do so in a pair of crappy shoes is not only letting yourself down, its letting the class down and the whole school down.

Wtf

You're a complete loon

 

[bouncer_the_dog]

Well ultimatley it is you who has to live with themselves, and of course the generations of students who's lives have been blighted by your poor choice of footwear. Interviews failed, promotions missed, careers destroyed all as they stand there in their plimsoles saying to themselves 'I don't understand it, surely 'business casual' emans I can wear these, just like Mr Tangerinedream did'...

 

[tangerinedream]

Well ultimatley it is you who has to live with themselves, and of course the generations of students who's lives have been blighted by your poor choice of footwear. Interviews failed, promotions missed, careers destroyed all as they stand there in their plimsoles saying to themselves 'I don't understand it, surely 'business casual' emans I can wear these, just like Mr Tangerinedream did'...

I'm not a business studies teacher though

 

[Voley]

I'm not surprised!

 

[Voley]

I'm appalled, tangerinedream!

Appalled, I tell ya!

 

[bouncer_the_dog]

Well I never did business studies, yet I have worked for businesses. It is possible, at least in my day etc.

But putting your feet before the future of your young protege's seems quite wrong to me. So what if your feet are uncomfortable? As a teacher you must not let that discomfort show - you must stand their resolute in your brogues. And that will be all the more tougher now every kid who can read a newspaper is going to be keeping an eagle eye on their educators footwear...

 

[untethered]

As a teacher you must not let that discomfort show - you must stand their resolute in your brogues.

If your brogues aren't comfortable, try finding a pair that fit.

 

[bouncer_the_dog]

Mine are perfectly comfortable - as my feet haven't be softened up into useless stubs of flesh by years of trainer wearing.

 

[untethered]

A fair point. We should be raising a generation capable of knowing what constitutes good footwear and having the fortitude to wear it.

 

[Missez]

It's time to make a stand for comfortable shoes!

 

[brix]

It's time to make a stand for comfortable shoes!

And elasticated waistbands!

 

[untethered]

It's time to make a stand for comfortable shoes!

It's time to make a stand for standards.

We shouldn't stand for anything less.

Workers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your trainers (and in extremis, your job).

 

[bouncer_the_dog]

Perhaps if the teachers continue to wear 'comfortable' shoes then the next generation will wear proper footwear, rejecting the informality of the oldies and smartening up to emphasise their difference...

 

[likesfish]

aging yoof teacher
n have you no standards man brush polish gleam gleam gleam

 

[dessiato]

I always wear formal shoes to teach. Nothing else, just shoes. I am a very good teacher.

 

[bouncer_the_dog]

I always wear formal shoes to teach. Nothing else, just shoes. I am a very good teacher.

That sounds like a very liberal school. Apart from the shoes of course.

 

[zippyRN]

Girls I teach have to wear ties, the female staff don't.

note 'similar' in my previous reply ...

 

[friedaweed]

I normally wear black canvas shoes - lace up plimsole types, actually they are the really old vans type at the moment, but I've had a few different pairs. Does this make me a poor pedagogue? I do have a pair of shoes for parents evenings, awards evenings etc as I can see the importance of presenting a formal face at such events.

Not at all. My head says as long as i keep doing what's important i can wear what the fuck i like on my feet, it's just the baseball cap that makes him twitch a bit

I wear plain black sketcher trainer type things or Vans. The kids like them and like I said the head knows whats important in a place like ours

 

[scifisam]

Out of curiosity, yesterday I poked my head under the staffroom table to check out what shoes the staff were wearing. Most were wearing trainers or something else that wouldn't be allowed in a city job - hiking boots and some sort of shoe that apparently looks like trainers but isn't. In the summer I've seen staff in flip-flops and walking sandals (which I wear myself in the summer too). They were all aghast at the idea of someone being fired for wearing trainers.

 

[obanite]

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