Today I am talking about school uniforms and the policies that schools have with regard to them.
When I was going to secondary
school in the early nineties, the school rules with regard your appearance were
simple. For the girls you could either
wear a knee length skirt or plain black formal trousers i.e. no leggings. As long as the trousers were of the right
material and your skirt was nearer your knees than your bottom, you were good
to go.
When it came to non-uniform days,
I don't recall anyone ever getting set home for inappropriate dress. Shoulders and arms were bared on these days
in the warmer months and no boys, or male teachers for that matter complained
of being distracted by them. No
educations suffered as a result of a boy, or male teacher come to that, being
able to see my knees.
Fast forward to 2015 and you
would be forgiven for thinking that attitudes towards school uniform and female
students had actually gone back in time.
Female students are treated as if they are term time Lolitas, there only
to distract boys and entice teachers.
Let us put it in a plain and
simple way.
If you are sending a
girl home because you can see some or all of her shoulders,
YOU are the problem, not her.
If you are sending a
girl home because teachers/male students are distracted by her, the teacher and
YOU are the problem, not her.
If you force a girl
to wear a "shame suit" if her clothes violate the dress code, YOU are the one that should be
ashamed. Give her parents a letter
giving them a time period to rectify situation.
DO NOT PUBLICALLY SHAME HER.
If you insist that
girls have to wear non
white t-shirts over their swimming costumes, YOU are the problem.
If you think a girl
is "too young" to be wearing an outfit,
YOU ARE TOO OLD TO BE SEXUALISING HER FOR WEARING IT.
