Author – jman
Tracy replied, “You told me that if I got Caleb to lose his shoes then I could get mine back. I took his homework out of his back pack so he would get his third strike and have to give up his sneakers.” Miss Parker replied, “You just confessed to causing someone to get a strike which would earn you another strike. That is four strikes this week and no one with four strikes gets their shoes back.” Tracy replied, “That is not fair. We had a deal.” Miss Parker replied, “Well there is nothing you can do about it. You can’t report me because you were involved in the scheme to get the shoes.” Tracy then left the classroom in solid pink socks.
Meanwhile Caleb left the room in his brown socks. He was upset with himself for getting the third strike and thinking he forgot his homework. Eric saw this and came up to Caleb and said, “Don’t feel bad. One time Miss Parker took my cowboy boots because they were making too much noise. I already had two strikes for talking in class and she charged me with having noisy boots. It was a bummer. Those boots cost $150. This was after she took my tennis shoes for being late three times.”
Caleb said, “They seem pretty strict around here. The slightest violation and you are in socks.” Eric replied, “You have to remember that the school is funded by the selling the shoes that they confiscate.”
Tracy felt bad about what happened to Caleb’s Converse sneakers. Later Tracy saw Caleb in the lunch room and said to him, “May I sit down?” “Please do.” Caleb replied. Tracy then explained how she took Caleb’s homework in order to get him to lose his shoes so she could get hers back. Caleb said, “It’s okay. I was the one who was late on purpose so I would have to lose my shoes. I took a risk that I would not get a third strike but I did.” “You like to lose shoes too?” Tracy asked. “How about we have a contest to see who can lose the most shoes.”
wheresmysneaks 
Ohh i like where this is going, also the school isn’t funded by that alone, (though it does help) they get alot of their funding fromt he alburn family who happen to own the local shoe stores. (also the whole school district has these rules not just the middle school.)
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So in a town where the schools take the shoes of students who break the rules, the shoe stores are owned by the one who gives the most money to the schools.
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Yup capitalism at it’s finest
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It seems like the students try to get each other in trouble so they will lose their shoes. There is talk of a rule changes where strikes will no longer be reset at the beginning of each week but will remain for the whole term. Any offense after the third strike will result in shoes being forfeited.
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that will likely not happen since the strike reset thing is a bit of a safety net for parents who can’t afford to keep getting new shoes
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