It's been a week since the Hamtramck public schools let out for the year and there are still remenants of eggs on the sidewalks.

Eggs?

Yes, and we're not talking about making omletes here.

Instead, students from the middle and high school have crafted this weird tradition, for lack of a better word, of smearing shaving cream all over themselves on the last day of school as well as toss eggs at each other.

It makes for a pretty weird sight and one ugly mess.

School Superintendent Tom Niczay, who's about the nicest guy in the world, has vowed to put an end to this debacle but he's got a lot of history to overcome. The kids are determined to have their way.

Niczay went to the public seeking support in cracking down, and he particularly asked store owners to not sell shaving cream or eggs to kids near the last day of school. That was one audience hard to convince. It's hard for the business community to say 'no' to any kind of a sale -- especially in these tough economic times.

I don't know about you, but when I was a kid -- too many decades ago to admit to -- adults would have given us a slap upside the head for such behaviour. I know, I know, you'd go to jail today if you dared laid a hand on a kid these days.

I'm going to cross my fingers that Tom Niczay is going to find a way to get to his students. He's been in the schools for quite some time and if there is one thing I know about Tom, he gets things done.