Rules That Were Supposed to Help But Ended up a Big Fail

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The Barefoot Brigade

When I graduated from high school, they had just completed the installation of a new football field (the little rubber pieces, not sure what it’s called). They sent out a notice saying that girls were not allowed to wear heels in order to protect the new field. (We’ll ignore the fact that they were setting 500 metal folding chairs on the new field.) Most of the class graduated barefoot, wearing the ugliest, dirtiest shoes they could find or in cleats. Basically, anything to make a point about how absurd the rule was.

If I recall, there were a lot of embarrassed parents upset with how the pictures of their recent graduates came out. The rule was abolished after that.