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ORIGINAL: BlueHnS

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ORIGINAL: LuckyAlbatross
But being told what to buy so specifically is ridiculous IMO, and indeed a hardship on many families. 

I don't deny that some specifications are utterly rediculous, such as the single color of tennis shoes. I will admit they are at times a pain in the ass to locate, however they are priced no differently than sneakers that come with 2 or 3 or 31 colors.

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ORIGINAL: julietsierra

Ridiculous the rules may seem, but since this is a school with a focus on health careers, the option could have been to wear shoes that are considered appropriate to the required dress in a hospital. Tennis shoes which have one color is a bow to how the students dress, while still meeting that health care field requirement. The hospitals we deal with do indeed require their employees to wear a solid color shoe. Members of our board of education are administrators in those hospitals. The graduates we turn out go on to careers in the health field. They may obviously choose the direction their lives will go after high school, but in choosing this school to attend (and it IS a choice, not a requirement for them), the focus of every one of their classes will have some reference to health care, as will the dress code requirements.

juliet