Does School Discipline Over Uniform Infractions Go too Far?

[Igel]

4. So kids are violating the uniform rules to get out of class?

That says right there that they'd rather be in trouble than be in class. We can argue over learning time, but the kids are going to avoid learning.

Let's say that they can't get out of class through uniform infractions. They still want out of class. And they're still willing to get into trouble to get out of class.

What other rule do we decide isn't important enough to take kids out of class for?

Or do we decide that for that one student the uniform rule isn't quite "uniform." Fair? No. Got resentment? Or the rule vanishes--and if one rule is meaningless, then others probably are. That's always fun, breakdowns in class managements, esp. with 30 low-SES students.

Write up the students, keep them in class, give them ASD until they forget that the school day ends and 2:25 and start to think it always ended at 4:00. Call their parents until their parents are convinced that their cell phone is actually a dedicated connection with the kid's teachers always on the other end. .