Have you ever had a teacher go barefoot during class while in school or college?

Yes, I am a teacher and I am the first to admit that I have been known to be barefoot in my classroom.

I am only 5ft and when I have to climb on a desk or chair to reach something, it is safer to be barefoot than in 3 inch heels. Also, I tell my students that their shoes can come off if mine are off, but they must be sitting at all times.

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Nope, I never saw anyone barefoot in public at all until ten years ago. Not at school or anywhere. I do however know of a couple barefooters who are teachers now, and they’re a lot better teachers than the dude the first answerer describes… you don’t have to be dirty or homeless to go barefoot, most of us just have a regular job and home, wear clean clothes from the ankle up, and wash our feet (& the rest of us) daily.

Yes I had an figure drawing during summer. It was extremely hot so many people either came in barefoot, like our instructor, or took their shoes off once the arrived. Of course our model was barefoot all over. We are not suppose to go without shoes in the class but our instructor said, “It’s too hot to worry about the silly rules.”

I teach 2nd & 3rd grade so I stand for about 6 hours a day on hard tile flooring.

Yes, I have been known to take off my shoes (only in my classroom though). If I could wear sneakers or “nurse shoes” I am sure this would be no problem. However as I am required to dress in a professional manner, such as people who SIT at desks all day, dress shoes kill by the end of the school day. Sometimes by the end of the day when your feet are throbbing and your once nicely fitted shoes are now squeezing the life out of you, you get over it quickly.

I have never had any complaints…I get pedicures, take care of myself and my feet are not nasty. I keep a pair of plain black bedroom slippers under my desk just for this purpose.

But I do work with some people who should never take their shoes off EVER as I have seen what peeks through their open toed shoes…ewwwww!

One junior high school teacher and another high school teacher, both of those woman teachers would sit on the desk and remove their shoes at least part way through class. Thankfully neither of them had any detectable foot odor, since they both wore closed shoes that would qualify as flats, and from what I’ve read the flats can eventually develop quite a stink.

Another college professor man thought he was being hippie-like taking off his shoes and just being in socks, and it turned out anyway that he was a faculty advisor for the university activist and protest organization.

unfortunately…Yes. This was Summer School in HS. This particular Science teacher was a rather plump man who reveled in kicking his sandals off, telling the class stories of how and why his wife left him and that he lived in his car in the school parking lot. If this all wasnt bad enough, he wore the same denim shorts to class everday with two different holey t-shirts that he alternated. The shirt not being worn was hung on the the windowsill next to the open window to “air out” not a great smell in a classroom with no heat and a teacher that hadnt bathed in weeks(?)

BTW- No, we didnt learn any science that summer but we learned a lot about hygiene.lol

Yes. I have taken off my shoes in class but only when we have held class outside. (These were elementary school students.) Once a year, I would take the class outside to have a picnic and a “campfire” sing-along (without the actual fire, of course) and we all took our shoes off, if we wished, during that time. Otherwise, I’ve had my shoes off under my desk during a free period sometimes, but not when I was actually in front of a class.

Um…I do sometimes (I teach 3rd grade). I made the mistake of putting cuteness above comfort, and by the end of the day, I was teaching without my adorable shoes on to avoid making blisters worse. It took me a while to learn from my mistake(s). I always put them on when I left the room though.

Not that I can recall.