A suburban Boston school has banned flip-flops, citing them as a safety issue. The kids are pissed. They always are. For years and years schools have banned certain clothing items and kids get a masterful lesson on protesting and petitioning and they always lose — another great life lesson!

I remember my mom telling me that when she was in high school, the girls had to kneel down and if their skirts didn’t touch the floor, that meant they were too short and they were sent home. When I was in high shool, several rock’n'roll t-shirts were banned and although I can’t remember the bad bands that caused this mandate, it always had to do with licking or some obscenity.

The kids in the following article are acting like they’re the first to be screwed over by da man and taxes, but guess what?… they don’t pay taxes, or if they do, it’s minimal part-time Target contribution. Seven flipped-out flopper kids suggested in the artile, “Tell them to worry more about academics.” I’d like to throw that back in their little pimpley faces and say right back to he/she/it, “Why don’t *you* worry more about academics and just deal, K?” (Aren’t I awesome at this mothering thing?)

Read about the woes of these poor little, victimized darlings at the bostonherald.com:

If the Randolph school board approves the measure, it would join a growing number of schools in Weymouth, South Hadley, Boston, Bellingham and Hudson that have kicked flip-flops out of the classroom.

“You hear from kids in flip-flops tripping up stairs. Literally tripping up stairs,” said Weymouth School Committee Chairman Sean Guilfoyle.

When Weymouth banned flip-flops districtwide last July, three forlorn high school fashionistas responded by gathering 541 signatures for a petition opposing the ban, which they presented to the school board in April, according to School Committee minutes.

Guilfoyle said the students argued against the ban by showing that the board’s policy allowed many types of footwear that are similar to flip-flops.

The plan backfired. The School Committee added “athletic/beach sandals, roller sneakers (and) excessively high heels” to the list, according to this year’s dress code.

“They were magnificent,” Guilfoyle said of the three flip-flop ban fighters. “But at the end of the day, it’s a safety issue.”. Read the rest…

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