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I retired awhile back and recently got a part time job that has me visiting local highschools.
I haven't been in one for ages. What a shock. The teachers are slobs! Tennis shoes, shorts, tee-shirts and jeans. Not a suit, a tie, a skirt or pant suit in the lot. All the male teachers in my public highschool wore jackets and ties and I never saw a woman in jeans and sweatshirts. Most wore dresses. Things have really changed.
Is this a Minneapolis thing or does the profession dress like this everywhere?
I retired awhile back and recently got a part time job that has me visiting local highschools.
I haven't been in one for ages. What a shock. The teachers are slobs! Tennis shoes, shorts, tee-shirts and jeans. Not a suit, a tie, a skirt or pant suit in the lot. All the male teachers in my public highschool wore jackets and ties and I never saw a woman in jeans and sweatshirts. Most wore dresses. Things have really changed.
Is this a Minneapolis thing or does the profession dress like this everywhere?
Even when I retired in 2008, no teachers wore suits and only a few wore ties.
Most male teachers (including me) wear shorts, and either runners or flip-flops, and a T-shirt. It's not uncommon for boys to show up in board shorts only. We gently remind them to put on a shirt and shoes.
Women teachers and female students also dress casually. With the girls, it's a continual battle to keep them in acceptable attire. Many wear "hoochie" outfits whenever they can get away with it.
The kids here are really well-behaved compared to the miscreants and cretins I taught for decades in California. These kids all swear like sailors, but if you can overlook that, it's really a great place to work.
I've been in the classroom for 42 years and continue only because I still enjoy it.
Most male teachers (including me) wear shorts, and either runners or flip-flops, and a T-shirt. It's not uncommon for boys to show up in board shorts only. We gently remind them to put on a shirt and shoes.
Women teachers and female students also dress casually. With the girls, it's a continual battle to keep them in acceptable attire. Many wear "hoochie" outfits whenever they can get away with it.
The kids here are really well-behaved compared to the miscreants and cretins I taught for decades in California. These kids all swear like sailors, but if you can overlook that, it's really a great place to work.
I've been in the classroom for 42 years and continue only because I still enjoy it.
To each his own, but to me, that's unprofessional.
I retired awhile back and recently got a part time job that has me visiting local highschools.
I haven't been in one for ages. What a shock. The teachers are slobs! Tennis shoes, shorts, tee-shirts and jeans. Not a suit, a tie, a skirt or pant suit in the lot. All the male teachers in my public highschool wore jackets and ties and I never saw a woman in jeans and sweatshirts. Most wore dresses. Things have really changed.
Is this a Minneapolis thing or does the profession dress like this everywhere?
I wore a tie for years off and on, mostly on. I stopped for a couple reasons: I got tired of getting blood on my clothes, especially the dress shirts, when I broke up fights and we got a new Principal who greeted the students in shorts and sandals the first day of school.
Society changes and what was "required", if you will, when you were in school has changed. In all honesty it made no sense to me when I was in high school for the PE teachers to change in and out of a suit/tie every period for class nor for the Shop teachers to have to put their ties in contorted shapes to not get them caught in the table saw, same with the Science teachers and Bunsen burners.
I'm on the side of 'dressing professionally.' Even business casual can be very put together.
Did we forget that how we dress can convey alot about how we feel about ourselves? care and self-respect.
This whole thing with people dressing like slobs (everywhere!) is depressing.
While I do understand that how we dress is not necessarily a measure of the man (or woman), it does project a certain sense of ....esteem?.....when we dress well.
If I saw a group of people and needed to go ask a question of one of them, I am probably not going to pick the slob.
I wore a tie for years off and on, mostly on. I stopped for a couple reasons: I got tired of getting blood on my clothes, especially the dress shirts, when I broke up fights and we got a new Principal who greeted the students in shorts and sandals the first day of school.
Society changes and what was "required", if you will, when you were in school has changed. In all honesty it made no sense to me when I was in high school for the PE teachers to change in and out of a suit/tie every period for class nor for the Shop teachers to have to put their ties in contorted shapes to not get them caught in the table saw, same with the Science teachers and Bunsen burners.
I retired awhile back and recently got a part time job that has me visiting local highschools.
I haven't been in one for ages. What a shock. The teachers are slobs! Tennis shoes, shorts, tee-shirts and jeans. Not a suit, a tie, a skirt or pant suit in the lot. All the male teachers in my public highschool wore jackets and ties and I never saw a woman in jeans and sweatshirts. Most wore dresses. Things have really changed.
Is this a Minneapolis thing or does the profession dress like this everywhere?
In Alaska the tendency is towards casual. Can't say I've ever seen a female staff member wearing a dress. Men will occasionally be seen in a sports coat, nice shirt and tie.
IMO, the physical condition staff presents is of more importance than fashion. Of course, there will always be several "slobs" body wise in the faculty.
But in the end both are relatively inconsequential IMO. A recently retired biology teacher was both overweight and unfashionable, yet widely regarded as an outstanding educator.
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