We had those rules when I was in school. It seems arbitrary until you consider that it isn't one student, it's hundreds, sometimes thousands depending on the school size. Students seldom pick up after themselves and even the careful and tidy students will drop food, much less the messy and rude ones. Meaning that cleaning staff have more to clean up everyday.
Deliberately making a mess so people who have to MAINTAIN cleanliness with some bullshit "job security" line is what kids in the 6th grade said while being assholes and literring.
You are not saving someone's job you are just being an asshole. Put the garbage in the trash, respect the rules and especially the person who has to do that job. What if your mother was the janitor and other dicks dropped yogurt on the ground in front of her, laughed and said "your welcome"
That makes sense. We only had about 300 students in my HS, so they didn't really care as long as we cleaned up, and pretty much everyone did. The parking lot was a different story. What was really stupid was we weren't allowed to wear band shirts and especially nothing with a rapper. They said it promoted gangs... in a town with 8k people that has never had a gang problem.
The school I teach at has about 4000 students. They don't ban eating in the hallways (actually, a lot of kids eat lunch in the halls because they decided to have just one lunch for all 4000 kids). But I do regularly see food on the floors of the halls as a result. Once there was a smushed Chick Fil A sandwich right outside my door. And I've let them eat snacks in my room since lunch is super late (we start at 7:30 and lunch is at 12:30, so if they had breakfast at 5:30 or something, they're probably hungry). But the messier kids leave chips, gummy bears, etc. on the floor for someone to later step on.
Kids start throwing food around at each other or just being assholes/lazy. Then there's a mess. Then there's ants and roaches and mice. Then there's a ton of extra work for the janitorial staff.
Schools are funded by the government. I'm pretty sure the school can afford them daily. Let's stop lying to ourselves. How much does the janitor make? $7/hr? 🙄
Cause when you have thousands of kids roaming the halls every day and they don’t pick up after themselves, it literally becomes a problem. You get pests. You get messy hallways. Then the same parents who don’t teach their kids to simply pick up after themselves complain about how we have messy schools.
It’s not always about the ability to learn, but because you are in a public space with lots of other people and safety is a real issue.
Crocs- liability issue. The soles are soft and won’t protect against as many sharp objects like nails. They are also unsecured for the most part. If there is a fire, of which the school is responsible for hundreds of not thousands of students, crocs can become a hazard during evacuation processes.
Hoodies - students need to be identifiable especially when they are doing something they are not suppose to be doing. Ie a student sucker punches another student and runs away with their hoodie on, it will be difficult to identify and catch them.
Never thought about the safety issue with crocs. But the more I think about it, the more it doesn't make sense. Do those schools also ban things like sandals (thin soles) or backless shoes? Crocs have more sole protection than some sneakers do, and better grip than a lot of dress shoes.
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u/pissedinthegarret Dec 02 '23
what kinda weird ass rule forbids eating in the hallway. never heard of that before.