

The only people allowed to wear Crocs to work are doctors and other healthcare professionals who rate the holey horrors because it’s easy to wipe blood and other bodily fluids off them. You will be down for cover and, yes, that includes drama. So you’re sticking your fingers up at both health and safety AND sensibility? I suggest you pick your battles. Sentence: Remove the chewing gum from the underside of all the desks in school. I once saw a teacher catch her flip flop under the wheels of her desk chair and break her ankle - really, I’m saving you from yourself. Flip flopsįlip flops are the most dangerous summer shoes you could have chosen. When you’re not confiscating footballs, or worse, you can spend the time thinking about what you’ve done. Sentence: Six weeks of breaktime playground duty.

They’re certainly pretty robust but, no offence Gavin, nobody wants to see your hairy big toes. Probably the least offensive summer footwear you could have chosen to stumble into work in. And if you’re prone to being a sartorial maverick, I’m setting the following sentences for your crimes against fashion: 1. I’m hereby banning all inappropriate footwear from the workplace no matter the weather.
Footwear fashion faux pas professional#
No: we must uphold professional standards - starting from our feet up. Imagine me scratching my way across the parquet flooring in my crampons in January because it’s icy outside. Want to know more? The secret of great leadership? Putting staff firstīut it’s not reasonable, is it? Why should the weather I have to navigate on my way into school determine what I wear once I’m in? Quick read: So what makes a teacher reflective? Were it reasonable to suggest that seasonal changes in weather should dictate the shoes we wear to work, then I’d have been striding into my lessons in October in my purple wellington boots and around about now, I’d be digging around in my closet in search of last summer’s flip flops. and the female equivalent of skirt suit and sensible footwear. For among the strappy sandals and Birkenstocks I note, with horror, that there’s an actual teacher wearing sliders in school. In Brazil its a bit of a faux pas for women to wear their hair down at work, whilst in. I’m sitting in a Monday morning briefing and, as I look down, I realise that I must have missed the memo about the trip to the beach.
