Submitted by John (not verified) on October 14, 2007 - 18:12.
I teach at a vocational high school and here is our problem. Some of our academic teachers have encouraged students to get pettitions signed by lab teachers that would allow costumes in lab classes. Although students could not dress in costumes during academic classes because it "would be a distraction".
In order to "guarantee" lab teacher compliance students would donate $2.50 to Breast Cancer Awareness, in order to participate.
Sadly, many teenagers are drawn to violence and this will become an opportunity to show us how violent they can be.
Fake guns, knives. blood and gore will abound. And teachers will be left playing the "costume police".
Students with long flowing robes endanger themselves and others in some trade labs. Yet, because money is donated to a good cause, some teachers feel we should throw aside our rules and risk student injury. Isn't it interesting that academic teachers think it is a distraction in their class but not in lab?
Of course not all students will use this as an opportunity to dress like hookers and bring fake weapons to school, but some will. Why would anyone put yourself in the situation? Because some charity gets a couple of hundred dollars? What ever happened to donating your money to a charity without expecting something in return?
While I personally think Halloween is harmless fun outside of school, there are many people who do not celebrate Halloween and even consider it satanic.
Why do schools go out of their way to protect non-Christian points of view but fail to accept that some forms of Christianity are valid, even though they are strict?
I say have a party in the gym or cafeteria and let students who want to participate go there to celebrate. Let the principal be the costume police and let me teach.
Costumes create problems
Submitted by John (not verified) on October 14, 2007 - 18:12.
I teach at a vocational high school and here is our problem. Some of our academic teachers have encouraged students to get pettitions signed by lab teachers that would allow costumes in lab classes. Although students could not dress in costumes during academic classes because it "would be a distraction".
In order to "guarantee" lab teacher compliance students would donate $2.50 to Breast Cancer Awareness, in order to participate.
Sadly, many teenagers are drawn to violence and this will become an opportunity to show us how violent they can be.
Fake guns, knives. blood and gore will abound. And teachers will be left playing the "costume police".
Students with long flowing robes endanger themselves and others in some trade labs. Yet, because money is donated to a good cause, some teachers feel we should throw aside our rules and risk student injury. Isn't it interesting that academic teachers think it is a distraction in their class but not in lab?
Of course not all students will use this as an opportunity to dress like hookers and bring fake weapons to school, but some will. Why would anyone put yourself in the situation? Because some charity gets a couple of hundred dollars? What ever happened to donating your money to a charity without expecting something in return?
While I personally think Halloween is harmless fun outside of school, there are many people who do not celebrate Halloween and even consider it satanic.
Why do schools go out of their way to protect non-Christian points of view but fail to accept that some forms of Christianity are valid, even though they are strict?
I say have a party in the gym or cafeteria and let students who want to participate go there to celebrate. Let the principal be the costume police and let me teach.