‘Professionalism’ of teachers
Sir,—Why must I be present at Mr Baker’s meeting to be amused by his comments, when they are reported in a reliable
newspaper? Mr Baker suggests that I have missed the point he was making, but it is he who has missed mine. It is unnecessary to distinguish between jeans and shorts or sandals and jandals. My point is that teachers’ clothes should not matter. To . take the opposite view is to adopt a position which, in spite of its popularity, demands much logical justification, because it is exalting the value of something superficial by definition. As justification. Mr Baker does not even offer the usual platitude about dress being “an important social consideration”; he merely restates his lack of respect for scruffy teachers. I have no respect for anyone who uses dress as a criterion for judging anything except dress.—Yours, etc., PETER JOYCE. November 16, 1981.
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