Barefoot Day in school?

[Anonymous]

We just moved here this summer and so far have loved our elementary school.

This week we received a letter from the Principal that an upper grade was holding a shoe drive, which is a fantastic idea.

What is not so fantastic, is they have designated Friday to be Barefoot Day, the kids will experiencing what it is like to go without shoes like the kids in third world countries.

Of course your children can opt out, which mine will be.

Is this a usual practice, isn't this is a public health issue? I find it all very odd.

What do you think?

[Anonymous]

Weird..my HS aged daughter and I were just discussing barefoot day this week as part of a conversation about the things going on for home coming. We dismissed it as dangerous since not everyone would take part so kids would get their barefeet stepped on. I would think in ES, they could make it part of the when the kids are in classrooms and mostly sitting.

[Anonymous]

Never heard of it. Never would allow it. Playground in my DC's school has too many woodchips, and DC's already gotten splinters from them.

[Anonymous]

How is it a public health issue? Assuming that the kids won't be barefoot around broken glass or bees they could step on, or in frostbite weather, or in areas where hookworm is endemic.

[Anonymous]

I would definitely speak DIRECTLY with your school principal/asst. principal to discuss this issue. Maybe they are clueless as to potential health concerns -- kids stepping on something that could cut them, other kids stepping on their feet, etc.

[Anonymous]

What school is this?

[Anonymous]

OP, this sounds really strange. My DC has a pajama day a couple of weeks ago, and they specifically mentioned no slippers - just regular footwear - to diminish risks of playground injuries.

[Anonymous]

no No NO

Good grief is there no end to this stupidity? Teach children reading writing arithmetic civics and history. Leave the Marxist indoctrination to the loony parents!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:no No NO

Good grief is there no end to this stupidity? Teach children reading writing arithmetic civics and history. Leave the Marxist indoctrination to the loony parents!

What a fool you are. Marxist indoctrination? Good grief. Back to the cave with you.

Anyway, OP, no, I wouldn't allow my children to participate. After their repeated bouts with painful plantar warts probably acquired through a locker room floor, there is no way I'd let them walk barefoot all day on school floors, sorry. They've learned to always wear flip flops or socks in locker rooms, also. http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/plantar-warts/basics/definition/CON-20025706?p=1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:no No NO

Good grief is there no end to this stupidity? Teach children reading writing arithmetic civics and history. Leave the Marxist indoctrination to the loony parents!

Yes, as Karl Marx famously wrote, "For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me. Then the righteous will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’ The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:no No NO

Good grief is there no end to this stupidity? Teach children reading writing arithmetic civics and history. Leave the Marxist indoctrination to the loony parents!

Yes, as Karl Marx famously wrote, "For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me. Then the righteous will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’ The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’"

What Marx wrote is unimportant, what he wrought is. Marxism has led to the poverty, misery, enslavement, and death of untold millions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:no No NO

Good grief is there no end to this stupidity? Teach children reading writing arithmetic civics and history. Leave the Marxist indoctrination to the loony parents!

What a fool you are. Marxist indoctrination? Good grief. Back to the cave with you.

Anyway, OP, no, I wouldn't allow my children to participate. After their repeated bouts with painful plantar warts probably acquired through a locker room floor, there is no way I'd let them walk barefoot all day on school floors, sorry. They've learned to always wear flip flops or socks in locker rooms, also. http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/plantar-warts/basics/definition/CON-20025706?p=1

Loony parent alert...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:no No NO

Good grief is there no end to this stupidity? Teach children reading writing arithmetic civics and history. Leave the Marxist indoctrination to the loony parents!

Yes, as Karl Marx famously wrote, "For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me. Then the righteous will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’ The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’"

What Marx wrote is unimportant, what he wrought is. Marxism has led to the poverty, misery, enslavement, and death of untold millions.

I'm speechless.

[Anonymous]

They are going to lose so much actual instruction time just taking their shoes and socks on and off, they have to have shoes on to go outside and in the cafeteria, don't you think? Missing socks, smelly socks, trying on each others shoes.

Oddest day I have ever heard of...

[Anonymous]

Ew..barefoot in the bathrooms, athletes foot, any gross foot fungus/warts...no thank you.
And you're definitely bringing that back home into the house (we have a no shoe policy inside at home, can you tell?).