Random school related question for ya!

[stacy347]

Does your school let the kids wear dress shoes in the gym for dances?

Just curious as to what other schools do when it is time for dances. We have our homecoming dance tomorrow and once again the kids have to take their shoes off in the hall and basically leave them in a big pile while they go in for the dance.
Of course girls usually take them off once the dancing gets going anyway but they do like to be able to show off the whole formal ensemble for awhile since they spend half of the day getting ready, LOL.

The reasoning behind this is that it scuffs the floors and then they have to do extra buffing later on. Do your schools do this as well?

 

[aprilgail2]

They make them take off their shoes?? How odd.
We hold other events in our gyms like a chinese auction and supermarket bingo- couldn't imagine asking all the people to take off their shoes before entering LOL- 5th grade graduation is held in the gym and if it rains 6th and 12th grade graduations are in there. They also hold dances etc in the gyms- they just buff the floor out after the event

 

[stacy347]

I agree that it is odd. We always had our dances in the gym and I know our shoes went right in there with us!
The kids literally can't even take them into the gym with them (and, yes a few kids' shoes "went missing" at the last dance because, like I said, all the shoes are left in a heap out in the hall ).
The school has all the equipment for buffing the floors...seems to me that the custodial staff must have put up quite a fuss about this.

Not a big deal in the grand scheme of things but it does irk me, LOL.

 

[AprilShowers]

My kids' school is VERY picky about the gym floor. That said, they don't make the kids take off their shoes. They put a covering over the floor for dances & social events.

It sure saves the floor, and is better than making kids go barefoot on a gym floor.

 

[MushyMushy]

What I don't understand with our schools is that they are very picky about the types of soles on the kids' shoes, but they have dances and all kinds of activities going on where people where all sorts of shoes.

 

[clh2]

DD's homecoming dance was last weekend. No black soled shoes allowed (either gender) and no shoes with more than a 1inche heel.

DD had a pair of "formal type of shoes" and a $10 pair of nice flip flops with her. (The flipflops were all we could find in October in Wisconsin that "met" the criteria".) This requirement would have been easy to deal with in the s ummer when ALL the cute summer sandals were out.

 

[golfgal]

Our school holds dances in the cafeteria (take out the tables) so they don't have to worry about the gym floor. When I was in high school we had a second cafeteria area that wasn't used-it was built to handle future expansion of the school. Our dances were there. The schools we have been at that do hold dances in the gym have tarps that cover the floor so shoes aren't an issue. The scuff marks are a HUGE issue so I don't blame them. Heck, back in the 50's they had sock hops--same thing.