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ArishMell · 70-79, M
I don't think that is the point the school is making, and I don't think [i]Metro[/i] understands it.
Nowt to do with "posh". That's just [i]Metro[/i] being snobbish.
That little quote alone shows a school rightly wanting to protect an expensive new floor from being damaged by children cavorting about on it in inappropriate footwear. Ordinary foot traffic fine, games and PE, not fine. After all, many householders now ask their own family and visitors to leave outdoor shoes and stiletto-heels by the front door. And you always take your shoes off when entering a mosque even as a visitor: school, home or mosque the aim is to respect and protect the property for its users.
I don't understand why that news-site gets its bloomers in a twist about it: must be short of genuine news. It's not some major act of "institutional" cruelty to children here; but one school's internal decision to protect its taxpayer-funded assets for the benefit of its real users: the staff and children.
As for PE footwear or lack thereof, [i]your[/i] schools may have gone bare-footed for indoor PE but mine didn't. In fact until I started seeing all these reminiscences on SW I had no idea anyone did any PE in bare feet - though I cannot recall if we wore shoes or not in my Infants' School for the [i]Music & Movement [/i]schools-broadcasts in the early-1960s.
I''d never even heard of the practice!
Otherwise I and my class-mates always wore plimsolls for all PE and Games, indoors and out; except of course studded boots for football on the outdoor pitches.
Nowt to do with "posh". That's just [i]Metro[/i] being snobbish.
That little quote alone shows a school rightly wanting to protect an expensive new floor from being damaged by children cavorting about on it in inappropriate footwear. Ordinary foot traffic fine, games and PE, not fine. After all, many householders now ask their own family and visitors to leave outdoor shoes and stiletto-heels by the front door. And you always take your shoes off when entering a mosque even as a visitor: school, home or mosque the aim is to respect and protect the property for its users.
I don't understand why that news-site gets its bloomers in a twist about it: must be short of genuine news. It's not some major act of "institutional" cruelty to children here; but one school's internal decision to protect its taxpayer-funded assets for the benefit of its real users: the staff and children.
As for PE footwear or lack thereof, [i]your[/i] schools may have gone bare-footed for indoor PE but mine didn't. In fact until I started seeing all these reminiscences on SW I had no idea anyone did any PE in bare feet - though I cannot recall if we wore shoes or not in my Infants' School for the [i]Music & Movement [/i]schools-broadcasts in the early-1960s.
I''d never even heard of the practice!
Otherwise I and my class-mates always wore plimsolls for all PE and Games, indoors and out; except of course studded boots for football on the outdoor pitches.