Barefoot Day in school?

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Anonymous wrote:10:30 - you should use all that creative energy you spent writing your sarcastic prose to do some good in the world.

Oh, I don't know. Cheering up people who read DCUM is doing some good in the world, I think.

[Anonymous]

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I send my kid to school with the booty slippers from the hospital so their shoes don't come with all those bad germs on the school tile floor.

We have wipes for our shoes and feet to keep our home clean of outside germs. I crawl on my hands and knees once a day for objects around the house that could penetrate our feet and kill us.

The dog now lives outside because he won't wear shoes, even the comfortable slippers I knitted myself with antibacterial yarn.

We shower with flip flops on and then set our shoes right outside of the bath tub. You never know, there could be some flu germs that get onto my feet and then when I lick them before bedtime, I will get the flu.

I make my kids wear shoes at the pool because there are rusty nails around. It is hard for them to jump off the diving board and one time, my kid sunk to the bottom, but their feet are safe and I feel less stressed than I ever have.

Asinine post. None of these examples correlate to children wearing shoes in a public building.

What about pools and pool public bathrooms? What is the difference? And there are posters mentioning they never let their kids go barefoot, ever. Ridiculous.

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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.

Different poster here, are you speechless because
1) you disagree this is Marxist 'indoctrination'
2) you agree
3) you think Marx's words are important and annoyed poster said his words don't matter
4) you think Marxism in practice is odious and annoyed other poster would be quoting Marx with adoration

Thanks, just curious and looking to understand your comment in the larger context.

Pretty sure that the PP was speechless bc she was quoting the BIBLE and not Marx and nobody was able to pick up on her sarcasm.

Probably because no one read the quote...

No one here is religious.

[Anonymous]

^^^I didn't grow up Christian, I'm non-religious now, and I know the passage.

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Ewww.... so disgusting... kids won't learn a thing and it's going to be a big time thief.

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I can picture a classroom full of Ethiopian children, who have walked a mile to school, crammed 50 to a room, without school supplies, running water, or a bathroom laughing their asses off that a school in one of the wealthiest countries in one of the wealthiest countries in the world removed their shoes in order to feel what it's like to be them.

It's so ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can picture a classroom full of Ethiopian children, who have walked a mile to school, crammed 50 to a room, without school supplies, running water, or a bathroom laughing their asses off that a school in one of the wealthiest countries in one of the wealthiest countries in the world removed their shoes in order to feel what it's like to be them.

It's so ridiculous.

So it would be better if the kids in OP's school walked a mile to school barefoot, spent the day with 50 students in a room, with no school supplies, and the school turned off the water?

Or, if not, what do you suggest that the OP's school do instead, to give the kids in OP's school an idea of what life is like for poor kids (urban as well as rural) in poor countries?

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Or, if not, what do you suggest that the OP's school do instead, to give the kids in OP's school an idea of what life is like for poor kids (urban as well as rural) in poor countries?

Going barefoot for a day is not going to teach these kids anything about their counterparts in a third world nation, its only going to be a distraction. Since this is a school and not a play area, they could pick a third world country, have kids do some research, compare and contrast their lifestyles. My daughter did the same thing in her Girl Scout troop and it was very meaningful for the kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Mine went for five treatments on a Plantar's wart before it finally died.

No way. Not only could he pick something up again, if he has another one just starting he could spread it around.

ew

[Anonymous]

I think the day is part of a 6th grade IB project

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Did I miss what school?

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Anonymous wrote:I think the day is part of a 6th grade IB project

It is. This is a grade 3-6 school and this was a sixth grade initiative. I give them credit for thinking this up. My kid cannot go barefoot all day, but I give the 6th graders credit for their empathy.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the day is part of a 6th grade IB project

It is. This is a grade 3-6 school and this was a sixth grade initiative. I give them credit for thinking this up. My kid cannot go barefoot all day, but I give the 6th graders credit for their empathy.

Ah. Thanks for the explanation. We got a robocall about it tonight. Don't plan to do it, but we will discuss the issue with our kid.

[Anonymous]

I'm a teacher and there is NO WAY IN HELL our school would allow this. I don't even like using our bathroom WITH shoes on. Yuk!

[Anonymous]

I imagine kids will have the option or be required to wear shoes to the bathroom.