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eha
Joined: 26 May 2005 Posts: 355 Location: ME
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Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 6:53 pm Post subject: Teachers' socks |
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Taken from another thread:
"Teachers should have an oppportunity to pull up their socks and be advised if their socks are falling down. Open and transparent. It works for us. In my experience, problem areas can be fixed, we offer full teacher support to teachers who are wearing loose socks. By offering them support, they support us back. A workable and ethical system."
Do all Gulf institutions have such a fierce dress code? |
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mishmumkin
Joined: 01 Sep 2007 Posts: 929
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Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 4:47 am Post subject: |
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What thread did that come from? |
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The_Prodiigy

Joined: 01 Apr 2006 Posts: 252
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Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 8:12 am Post subject: |
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Cotton. Acrylic is acceptable when worn with garters. |
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veiledsentiments

Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA
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Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 3:07 pm Post subject: |
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I'll never forget the first time I heard one of my fellow teachers, who happened to be Pakistani, tell her class of Omanis that they had to "pull their socks up if they expected to pass!"
Of course, there wasn't one pair of "socks" to be seen among the 25 students... just bare toes in sandals. I always wondered what the students thought the first time she said it.
By the end of the semester it had become a running joke.
I have to say that it is not a phrase that I had ever heard from anyone under the age of my grandmother.
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scot47

Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343
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Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 5:13 pm Post subject: |
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Teachers' socks ? Mine are always
1.clean
2.without holes
3.worn with sandals
I have colleagues who oten wear socks with holes. I know because they wear them with sandals. |
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007

Joined: 30 Oct 2006 Posts: 2684 Location: UK/Veteran of the Magic Kingdom
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Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 7:22 pm Post subject: |
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scot47 wrote: |
Teachers' socks ? Mine are always
1.clean
2.without holes
3.worn with sandals |
Of course, Uncle Scott always in alert and dressed as a real gentleman!
But, Uncle Scott you did not mention the mark and type of your socks!
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I have colleagues who oten wear socks with holes. I know because they wear them with sandals. |
BTW, I think the people who have holes in their socks are VIP people.
Don�t you known that the World Bank President, Paul Wolfowitz, Has Holes in his Socks!
�While visiting a mosque in western Turkey over the weekend, World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz dutifully observed custom and took off his shoes before entering.�
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eha
Joined: 26 May 2005 Posts: 355 Location: ME
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Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 6:47 pm Post subject: |
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There you go! What's good enough for Paul Wolfowitz is certainly not good enough for tefling in. |
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sheikh radlinrol
Joined: 30 Jan 2007 Posts: 1222 Location: Spain
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Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 8:29 pm Post subject: |
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Socks are dangerous in the Gulf, especially if you agree to SHARE accommodation with a person you don't know. You may find that he (probably not she) arrives with only one pair.
BEWARE! |
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trapezius

Joined: 13 Aug 2006 Posts: 1670 Location: Land of Culture of Death & Destruction
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Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 1:10 am Post subject: |
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Do all Gulf institutions have such a fierce dress code? |
I really hope you didn't think that was about a dress code. |
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eha
Joined: 26 May 2005 Posts: 355 Location: ME
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Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 4:25 pm Post subject: |
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"I really hope you didn't think that was about a dress code."
Well actually I thought it was about The Uses of Irony in Tefling. How about that for a dissertation topic: The uses and abuses of socks in Tefland: is ironing strictly necessary?
Wouldn't be at all surprised if there was an institution out there that would accept it! |
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harrythehook
Joined: 03 Jan 2008 Posts: 21
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Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 7:32 pm Post subject: |
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I don't wear socks. It's too hot here. The last time I wore socks was in
Chicago. |
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Sheikh N Bake

Joined: 26 Apr 2007 Posts: 1307 Location: Dis ting of ours
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Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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More than 22 years ago Don Johnson was sockless in his loafers in Miami Vice. That's good enough for me. He's the same age as me but last time I saw, handsomer and more stylish and definitely cooler. Ergo, no socks = cool. Omani students = cool / Properly dressed male HCT instructors = not cool. |
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trapezius

Joined: 13 Aug 2006 Posts: 1670 Location: Land of Culture of Death & Destruction
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Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 9:33 pm Post subject: |
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I don't wear socks. It's too hot here. The last time I wore socks was in
Chicago. |
Thank you for that very important information. Now we can sleep at night! |
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