Okay, I'm sorry, but speaking from a teacher's perspective, I think there are perfectly good reasons for a lot of those rules that maybe you haven't considered.
The hoodie thing is definitely a safety issue, but it's got nothing to do with guns. The issue is that teachers need to be able to see your face at all times. This is both for mundane reasons (so that I can make sure that you're not asleep in class) and for safety reasons (so that I can make sure that you aren't passed out or unconscious at your desk). When a kid is sitting with his head slightly lowered - like, when he's looking down at his desk - and he's wearing a hoodie, then I can't see his face anymore. Which is a problem. Yes, there have been actual incidents of students passing out at their desks without their teacher noticing because they managed to slump against the back of their seat with their heads slightly lowered, and because they were wearing hoodies the teacher couldn't see that their eyes were closed. I also need to be able to see my student's faces in case one of them is starting to blink rapidly or looks even close to passing out and/or falling asleep. Because that's when I need to intervene right away. If they're just sleepy, I will actually let them stand up and get a drink of water, if that will help them wake up. If they're not just sleepy - if they're sick, dizzy, hypoglycemic, OD'ing on meds, or whatever - then I'm immediately responsible for taking the appropriate action right away. Which I can't do if they can hide their faces from me with a hoodie.
2) You cannot interact with anyone that is a grade lower than you because you WILL beat them up/rape them/sell drugs to them
3) You cannot under any circumstances EVER wear fingerless gloves! EVER!! Because!............I said so
I'm assuming that these rules exist because there have been actual incidents in the past where, say, fingerless gloves actually caused a problem. Yes I know this looks "stupid" on the surface but there's often a reason for "stupid" rules being enacted.
Let me give you another example. Silly bands. Silly bands were banned at the middle school where I teach (in the morning) from the start of the school year. I thought that this was a stupid rule, but the other teachers warned me that the kids would actually disrupt classes by fighting over the stupid silly bands, so they had to go.
Then the students in my high school classes (which I teach in the afternoon) actually starting disrupting classes by fighting over silly bands. It was the dumbest effing thing ever. But yeah, within a week silly bands were banned at the high school too. You think that rule is stupid? Blame the kids who were doing the INCREDIBLY STUPID behavior that led to the rule having to exist in the first place.
...Or so I say, but yeah, there's still not a good reason (outside of the liability issue) for my school district to have banned chapstick. Especially since it's something that a lot of students need for basic comfort, as opposed to something that they could definitely survive without (as is the case with silly bands, fingerless gloves, and hoodies). And either way it doesn't matter because I doubt this rule will be enforced.
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The hoodie thing is definitely a safety issue, but it's got nothing to do with guns. The issue is that teachers need to be able to see your face at all times. This is both for mundane reasons (so that I can make sure that you're not asleep in class) and for safety reasons (so that I can make sure that you aren't passed out or unconscious at your desk). When a kid is sitting with his head slightly lowered - like, when he's looking down at his desk - and he's wearing a hoodie, then I can't see his face anymore. Which is a problem. Yes, there have been actual incidents of students passing out at their desks without their teacher noticing because they managed to slump against the back of their seat with their heads slightly lowered, and because they were wearing hoodies the teacher couldn't see that their eyes were closed. I also need to be able to see my student's faces in case one of them is starting to blink rapidly or looks even close to passing out and/or falling asleep. Because that's when I need to intervene right away. If they're just sleepy, I will actually let them stand up and get a drink of water, if that will help them wake up. If they're not just sleepy - if they're sick, dizzy, hypoglycemic, OD'ing on meds, or whatever - then I'm immediately responsible for taking the appropriate action right away. Which I can't do if they can hide their faces from me with a hoodie.
2) You cannot interact with anyone that is a grade lower than you because you WILL beat them up/rape them/sell drugs to them
3) You cannot under any circumstances EVER wear fingerless gloves! EVER!! Because!............I said so
I'm assuming that these rules exist because there have been actual incidents in the past where, say, fingerless gloves actually caused a problem. Yes I know this looks "stupid" on the surface but there's often a reason for "stupid" rules being enacted.
Let me give you another example. Silly bands. Silly bands were banned at the middle school where I teach (in the morning) from the start of the school year. I thought that this was a stupid rule, but the other teachers warned me that the kids would actually disrupt classes by fighting over the stupid silly bands, so they had to go.
Then the students in my high school classes (which I teach in the afternoon) actually starting disrupting classes by fighting over silly bands. It was the dumbest effing thing ever. But yeah, within a week silly bands were banned at the high school too. You think that rule is stupid? Blame the kids who were doing the INCREDIBLY STUPID behavior that led to the rule having to exist in the first place.
...Or so I say, but yeah, there's still not a good reason (outside of the liability issue) for my school district to have banned chapstick. Especially since it's something that a lot of students need for basic comfort, as opposed to something that they could definitely survive without (as is the case with silly bands, fingerless gloves, and hoodies). And either way it doesn't matter because I doubt this rule will be enforced.