Has anybody here gone to school barefoot

When I was in high school I went to most of my classes barefoot and in gym we were encouraged to go barefoot when we were doing gym outside like long distance running it was great

 

I had a friend that was with me today he got a phone call from his daughter school that she was getting suspended from school for going to school barefoot. That’s weird that’s the same school I went to that school and I never had that happen . The school has not dress code about shoes but clothes are a different store. I know his daughter is a barefooter and it nice to see a young teenager going barefoot I haven’t seen anyone teens or kids go running around barefoot . Before the pandemic you could see a lot of people go barefoot everywhere I don’t see anybody in cars or trucks or motor homes sitting in the passenger seat with their bare feet up on the dash or against the windshield. It would be nice to have people except the barefoot lifestyle it’s a awesome lifestyle and I love being barefoot

 

Not to normal classes, no. Mind you, this was during my childhood years, when I hadn't yet adopted the whole barefoot habit. I did, however, do physical education classes in bare feet. This was the one notable exception to the rule in my case, because the kids in my group usually always took their footwear off for PE and just barefooted trough the whole thing, so me showing off my own toes there didn't feel bad, didn't stand out, or look different. Because, you know, in a group of asshole teenagers, being That One Different Kid isn't always smart. PE was the one time where I didn't feel bothered, or embarrassed by my own feet, because everybody was showing theirs and it was just the expected thing to do, so we were all equal in a sense. And, anyway, during swim class I wasn't gonna enter a swimming pool in my shoes and socks anyway.

Sometimes, during times of heavy rain, or when large quantities of snow began to melt at the beginning of spring, and you had large puddles of water everywhere, kids sometimes got their shoes and socks quite wet, and so took them off to leave their socks on top of the wall mounted hot water steel radiator heaters to dry up. I never did this myself, but saw some other kids sometimes do it. But this was the exception, and outside of all that, being barefoot in my old school really wasn't the standard.

 

Back in my college days (mid 1970's) I'd walk around campus and go to class barefoot weather permitting.

 

In my school, and pretty much all other schools around here, bare feet are usually a no-go, both in the classroom and for PE. We had to wear school slippers in class - usually a pair of plimsolls that we replaced our outdoor shoes with so that we wouldn't bring dirt in or damage the wooden floors with hard soles. I've always found that funny, since the only other school kid I know of that dared to walk completely barefoot in class (he took his outdoor shoes off once, as well as socks, without putting any slippers on - he was a farm boy who often walked barefoot at home) was reprimanded and was told to put his socks and shoes back on - even with school slippers being compulsory indoor footwear, the teachers rather saw him spend that day wearing his outdoor shoes than just have the bare skin of his soles touch the school floor. Ironically, even earlier than that, back when we were in lower grades, if you forgot to pack your slippers for the day, you'd have to spend the rest of the day in school wearing just your socks around the place (I can't recall anyone having completely bare feet, though). I was far too shy back then, although that's how I first became interested in bare feet, I suppose, so I've never enjoyed that experience - and if I did it on purpose, or on a higher number of occasions, someone might have thought that I was acting strange. We also had to wear a pair of clean indoor sneakers for PE, and if you forgot to take those to school, you just weren't allowed to partake in any activities during the class, even if you were willing to do barefoot or in your usual school slippers... which I definitely would be willing to do, of course!

I also got away with being completely barefoot in class once, but unlike the kid that I've mentioned earlier, I was a model student, and I just so happened to take my outdoor sandals off on the very last day of my elementary school education, when I knew I wouldn't get in trouble. I also had the habit of wearing slide sandals as my school slippers, which gave me an opportunity to slip them off quite often, though I'd just about always remain socked. For some reason, teachers paid little attention to that - I guess they approved of a kid wearing slide sandals as slippers. I was the very first kid at my school to do that, and it seems that nowadays that's becoming ever more popular, so slides are starting to replace canvas gusset plimsolls as slippers for both boys and girls. Hopefully, that will soon lead to bare feet becoming more commonplace and perhaps even accepted as a welcome alternative to wearing school slippers in general.

 

I had friends that would bring their flip flops and most girls did wear flip flops and in class they would kick the off and walk around the classroom barefoot. Even the teacher would go barefoot it was great . Some teachers didn’t care if you were barefoot or wearing shoes just as long you got your school work done. I do know when I went to class barefoot I did much better on tests and my school work and if I had shoes on I didn’t do so good on tests and other school work. But like in wrestling class they didn’t want street shoes on the mats so most of us wrestle in our bare feet .

 

If everybody wants to know about my friend daughter here’s a update. Will my friend and his wife had to go and talk to the principal about their daughter going barefoot in school and the showed the principal about a Utah law about people that go barefoot and how the law protects the barefooter. And the principal could not defend his action . And so now she is able to go to school barefoot and when the weather here goes cold and snow fall she can still go barefoot in school and I know her well she will just put on a pair of flip flops on just to go from the parking lot to the entrance of the school and I on she will be barefoot in class . Because when she is over at my house with her dad and we go anywhere she is like me completely barefoot even in the cold wet snow . I’m happy for her and her was of living a barefoot lifestyle. I know I might get some people saying that it’s not right but in my eyes it’s a great step even though it’s a little step for barefoot people. I hope that more teenagers that like to go barefoot can go barefoot in school . I really don’t see a lot of teenagers walking around barefoot even this summer it a shame that people have to be against people going barefoot and the barefoot lifestyle. I thinks the barefoot lifestyle is awesome and I would never change my barefoot lifestyle for anything.

 

Wow, this is good news. Bare feet are just plain awesome.

 

Yes they are I just wish people would go barefoot more to see what they are missing by wearing shoes.

 

Excellent news about your friends daughter and I hope that she can be barefoot in school and everywhere else for years to come.

My own experience of going barefoot in school are mixed. In primary and middle school we had indoor/outdoor shoes and you were not allowed outdoor shoes to be worn inside so if you didn't have clean shoes to change into you just spent the day in socks (or barefoot if you didn't have socks). It was during middle school when I discovered my passion for going barefoot and I misplaced my indoor shoes alot. For PE in middle school bare feet were compulsory indoors and optional outdoors.

Then onto high school and bare feet were the rule for drama lessons with free choice of trainers or barefoot in PE. At other times I'd have to break the rules and wear non uniform shoes and socks so I'd be told to take them off and go around school barefoot.

In sixth form college there was no uniform and it was here I started to just come into school completely barefoot everyday all year round and it was fantastic.

 

Your situation seems to have been way better than mine. I can't imagine bare feet being compulsory during indoor PE over here, let alone being an option for outdoor PE - we'd usually play football (soccer) on a concrete playground next to the school gym, yet we'd do it in the same pair of our PE-only sneakers that we would also have worn indoors. Some kids (myself included, at one point in time) would wear the same pair of sneakers for PE that they'd wear as "school slippers" in the classroom. Teachers had no problem with that as long as they were discernible from the shoes students would go to school in, so most kids wore a regular pair of athetic sneakers as their school "slippers".

I can recall quite a few other nonsensical school footwear-related peculiarities that I've experienced at my elementary school (that also includes middle-school age here). In high school, we'd wear our outdoor shoes all the time (except for PE class - for that, we'd keep another pair of sneakers in our lockers), yet even then sandals were very, very uncommon (I used every opportunity to wear them, though) - and bare feet were unheard of there, as well, maybe because it was a posh urban school with quite a high academic reputation, so bare feet would be seen as inappropriate.

 

I know when I was in school some kids would transfer to our school and they were blown away that we could go barefoot in school and P E class. Yes there was some teachers that didn’t like their student barefoot in class but the others teachers did not care they were focuse on teaching and if that made the student learn better they were all for it . But PE was great to run outside playing football running and Soccer on a grass field until it got cold and started snowing. The we would do volleyball and wrestling and swimming. It was awesome and I loved every minute of it .

 

And now that I’m older I don’t have any desire to wear shoes. Even in my early twenties I went barefoot every chance I got I even was barefoot at work the bosses knew and they were ok with that. And when I decided to have my own business which it was auto Detailing I did it barefoot and my employees could work barefoot to and they did all summer until winter hit.

 

When I was in high school they sent you home if you were barefoot, but once I got to college I went to class barefoot all the time. Always loved walking across campus barefoot and seeing how dirty I could get my soles.

 

...in the US??

 

Teen barefooters are rare birds today!

 

In K-12 never...

It was quite an experience when I started college to see barefooters around campus, and even in classes. Not many, but enough for it to be obvious that it was tolerated in most places on campus. I wasted no time partaking!

 

Yes in the US

 

Rather unusual in the US....

Public school?

That's something that you'd hear about kids doing in Australia, New Zealand, S Africa...