Sometimes the rules go one way and common sense goes the other way. When this happens in the school environment and those who pay the consequences are the children, it is very sad.
How can empathy or common sense be taught when it is not applied in the center itself? How can you decide that the right clothes to go to school may not be the best to not die of heat?
When the logic is not in the norms of the center, it doesn't matter if you die of heat in the school.
Children from different schools have been victims of the heat in recent weeks and, above all, the lack of logic of their educational centers, something that has strongly called attention to the families of children and thousands of people around the world who have known Your stories through the internet.
Four children who usually go to school in uniform had a conflict in their school when, Due to the heat, they decided to go downtown with the tracksuit shorts.
The tracksuit was the one that marked the school uniform but still they were told that they could not wear that garment if it was not for gym class.
So the direction of the center made them return home to change and they left and returned to school with another piece of clothing in the uniform: The skirt of the girls.
It was the solution they found to better cope with more than 30 degrees that were lived at that time in the southeast of England.
If the girls can wear a skirt much shorter than the boys' pants, why couldn't they wear the same skirt as their classmates?
For two days, the four were dressed in the uniform skirt and supported by their families in this claiming action.
After those days, the principal of their school informed them that they were allowed to wear any garment agreed upon within the school uniform. He gained common sense and logic.
In South Carolina Jordynn, a 10-year-old girl, was not so lucky and did not gain logic in her case.
The look that judges
Again the heat, higher than 30º and atypical in the area was the trigger for the bad experience for Jordynn and his mother Alicia.
Alicia prepared the clothes for her three children like every morning and her daughter, given the heat it was and that the girl had softball training after class, left her a tank top and shorts.
At no time did he think he could have problems at school because of his clothes, but he did.
Jordynn returned home crying and he told his mother that a teacher had called his attention for his clothes in front of his classmates, had separated her from the rest of the group and sent him to the infirmary to give him something to wear. There he was offered a boy's shirt or jacket, the girl chose the jacket and returned to dismayed class.
His classmates didn't understand what was happening, they didn't understand why he had to wear a jacket if he was sweating and obviously, They did not see the reasons that had prompted their teacher to do so.
Alicia could not believe what her daughter was telling her considering that the clothes the girl was wearing was perfectly allowed in the regulations of the center's own internal regime and that in addition, at no time, no one had in mind to contact her to inform her of This episode with his ten year old daughter.
Sometimes logic is imposed and you see, at other times it is not so and children are not so lucky. How are they going to understand that someone like this explains what justice is, what is empathy or what is common sense?
