That's my point. Again, you can't shirk your responsibility for the education of children because your draft code may get picked at by an arbitrator. That kind of dithering is not management material.
I don't think anyone is holding up the school board here as the paragons of management material.
I am just pointing out that the original decision not to have a dress code isn't some mysterious abdication of authority.
Crafting one in the middle of potential lawsuits is even more fraught. (Especially if there is an actual collective bargaining negotiation going on, which some people have said but I haven't verified.)
To illustrate the point by comparison to another employment decision - do you know why companies fire employees when they know they don't have just cause and are probably going to end up paying significant severance? Answer - because that employee is doing so much harm to the business, replacing them is worth the cost.
Totally agree.
Sometimes you have to make the call and take one hit to reduce the other hit.
To you, this may seem obvious, but unless you are intimately involved in their business, I don't know if I should believe your analysis.
I sure as hell don't know what their actual situation is.
They seem to think waiting this out is the better strategy.
There is a good chance they are wrong.
Likewise here, except I think this problem ends with a policy. Lemieux won't bet his job on defying the policy. He'll cook up some form of mental health leave and file a grievance over the policy. Teachers unions have no balls (they aren't reall unions - they never had to organize anyone - statute granted them bargaining rights), so they'll go through the theatre of pursuing the grievance, and everyone will know it's theatre, including the arbitrator.
You are welcome to make whatever guess you want.