Teachers berating their students for running through the corridors have a new hallway hazard to worry about: Grade-schoolers are tripping and tumbling over their Crocs.
Schools have increasingly banned the slip-on foam clogs over safety concerns as well as arguments that the shoes—often accompanied by customizable stick-on charms called “jibbitz”—pose a distraction to pupils. Dozens of schools across more than 12 states have implemented Crocs bans, Bloomberg reported, including Lake City Elementary School in Georgia, which said in its dress code policy that students should wear closed-toe shoes, forbidding Crocs for safety reasons.
