arising short on situational awareness
When a nc mom feels she need to wear her daughter's dress to the girl's graduation to make a point, it's time to readjust the parenting goggles of educators.
There have been a large number of dustups this past school year over dress codes; While one student banned yoga pants from being worn by girls, Another adjusted yearbook photos using Photoshop to cover shoulders and added wardrobe to images without the presence of permission of parents.
to me, Mom of four guys, protecting a school dress code has never been an issue, Because apparently girls are the preferred target of the minutia seeking missiles some educators can become when the role of enforcement and a ruler are in their hands.
then again, That has not shielded me or my boys from other misguided attempts by people in charge (academics, managers) To impose rules to the letter, While missing the spirit of those rules.
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my better half calls these moments ones that call for "Situational realization,
It's like our code for stopping in mid reprimand to see if one of us is missing the aim of an act or moment.
as an example, If we are on having an ice cream party to celebrate an achievement of one of the kids, And my husband becomes the neat police, Slurping all the fun from the moment, I will give you him the elbow poke and say, "Situational curiosity,
at times, I know that if one of the boys is carrying a power tool and wearing goggles, my husband may call out from some unseen location, "Situational understanding,
I think for Violet Burkhart, The educator who tossed her out of school on her last day of senior year for a hemline that was half an inch too short, Was not being "Situationally experienced" Of the irrelevance of that rule at that time in the girl's life.
Violet's school was just one of many that made the news after going to great and in some cases unusual lengths to enforce a dress code.
Her outfit, in order to reports, Is one the girl had worn to high school on multiple occasions, But [-censured-=https://sexychinesegirls.wixsite.com/charmdatescam]charmdate[/-censured-] surprisingly an educator whose best use of a ruler was measuring hemlines that day sent her home to change.
and here those home economics classes could have saved the day, Along with a type of "Situational brain" Rather than leaping right to blame and shame affected person the school and the parent.
in adition to "families Life" Classes at high school, I happened upon hinky hems from my mom, A dressmaker, Who drummed her own dress code and the guidelines of hemlines into me from an early age.
That's why I know a hemline can measure differently generally on the point along that line it is measured, If the information presented shrinks up after washing like cotton does and if a person has filled out and the hem was not adjusted.
"filled out" Can mean anything from a girl developing a bigger bustline or getting fatter, Which either way can raise the the hem through fabric attrition.
I suddenly feel like the character Elle Woods giving a court statement about the rules for care of freshly permed hair during a courtroom scene from the movie "lawfully Blond,
perhaps the mom may have lacked the situational awareness that the dress was shorter than the last time she saw it on her daughter, Or maybe she just presumed the college would think, As many mothers might, That the dress code was obviously a non issue in the larger scheme of things on the last day of school for a senior class member.
being a parent, We ask a lot of educators who want to act "inside of loco parentis" that may Latin for "in place of a parent" For eight hours a day to hundreds of kids.
perhaps, We need to adjust the height of the line we expect them to measure up to by realizing that that there is a different type of "loco" (like in "up the wall" In the spanish language) That can take hold of those "throughout loco parentis".