The proposed policy is nominally one of the "Think of the Children!" type things, ostenibly to promote "student safety". But it also reads like one of those po

The proposed policy is nominally one of the "Think of the Children!" type things, ostenibly to promote "student safety". But it also reads like one of those policies designed to enforce "traditional" schooling, like the no-school-between-Memorial Day-and-Labor-Day things a lot of states have, or the insistence on teaching english via "The Classics", boring, hard-to-decipher 1800s texts, or the "back to basics" movement that emphasizes rote learning of arithmetic facts and parts of speech.