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First, congratulations are in order. Our Golden Eagles defeated Bishop Kenny 17 - 14. Go Eagles!

Now, let me vent a little about the daily life of a high school teacher in Clay County. There are no empty classrooms in our school ANY period. We have teachers who do not have classrooms to call their own. They push or pull a cart, or drag a large cumbersome bag all over the school. It wouldn't be too bad if they were just going a few steps down the hallway, but several are going all over the school, all the while expected to greet their students at the door, have their word wall visible, their objective on the board, the Sunshine State Standards posted, AND the bell activity projected on the screen or written on the board. We must also make sure that our room is "print-rich" with charts, graphs, and informative posters present in our rooms (if we have one.)

  Teacher's Response - Nothing to do with dress code! Submitted by Grizelda on Sun, 09/30/2007 - 9:52am.

I teach at Fleming Island High School. This protest had NOTHING to do with the very reasonable dress code. The focus was new gates installed in and around the gym. The gates will cut down on the number of thefts from gym lockers and also the numerous incidents of students leaving campus for lunch.