WARNING: Grumpy old man rant ahead.

[mac56]

I keep reading that schools feel "powerless" to enforce a mask mandate.

Back in my day dudes got sent home for wearing blue jeans, love beads, sandals, or peace pendents.

I think they can handle it.

[samnsara]

1. ...or sent home cuz my skirt was 'too short'....

[myccrider]

10. Oh, yeah!

The getting on ones knees and having the gym teachers check to make sure the hem touched the ground! (Of course, we rolled skirt waist bands to raise the hem an inch or two right after the check.

And not being allowed to wear pants except on special days. Fun times!

[SheltieLover]

2. I called district a few weeks ago to inquire about masks

"Well, you know, we can't really make them wear masks."

WTAF???

People are dying! 🤬

[GoCubsGo]

3. Yep. If they can't crop off a kid's dreadlocks because they don't like them,

they can make kids wear mask. It might be rough with kindergarteners, but the older ones, not so much.

[NCDem47]

4. I suspect these kind of reports are coming from deep red or red leaning districts.

School officials in these ares are lazy and don't want to deal with parents---and by extension children---who are C19 deniers (or are deniers themselves, the school officials).

I read that too and I was like "WTF?"

[Baked Potato]

5. Administrators know behind every no-masker kid is potentially a nut parent.

[lindysalsagal]

6. I promise you that children who do not want to wear them, or keep them up, won't.

Ugly parents call the superintendent and threaten to sue, and the principal caves.

Remember that Board of Ed. Trustees need re-election, and I don't believe Superintendents are covered by Tenure anywhere anymore.

Teachers are considering retirement and leaves in order to remain alive long enough to return after the vaccine.

Hopefully, everyone will remain online until the vaccines.

[Ghost of Tom Joad]

7. And aren't there areas where you can get in trouble for wearing your pants too low

[Midnight Writer]

8. I got sent home because my hair touched my collar, unacceptable for a male.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

9. Yeah, heard those stories from my older brother...

... who saw some of his late-60's classmates violently slammed into lockers for wearing blue jeans to school.

His yearbooks changed dramatically around 1968. Went from every student dressed almost identically one year, to a bunch of "long-haired hippies" the next year.