Re: Stone Soup 8/30/05
- From: Cindy Kandolf <cindy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 31 Aug 2005 11:10:39 +0200
nospam@xxxxxxxxxx (Paul Ciszek) writes:
> Has anyone ever challenged school uniforms on sexist grounds?
> Forcing all the girls to wear skirts, just because they are
> girls, is undeniably sexist.
How many schools really insist that the girls wear skirts? Outside
the comics pages, I mean?
I went to two schools that required the girls[1] to wear uniforms. In
both cases, slacks were among the acceptable choices. The reason all
the girls wore skirts anyway is because the slacks were utterly
hideous. That may have been a subtle way of getting all the girls
into skirts, but even if it was, all their legal bases were covered.
- Cindy Kandolf, certified language mechanic, mamma flodnak
flodmail: cindy@xxxxxxxxxx flodhome: Bærum, Norway
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[1] Catholic schools, both co-ed. When I started elementary school,
the girls had to wear uniforms, while the boys had a strict dress code
(shirt & tie) but no uniform. Later they switched to uniforms for all
pupils. In high school, again, girls were in uniforms, boys had a
shirt & tie type dress code.
.
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