Melisande Ouellette, 17, said she was in math class when the principal arrived. “She asked all the girls to stand up. She picked off me and this other girl.” They were asked to go to the hallway, and told their shorts were “inappropriate.”Ouellette said she was told to wait in the office, then the library, and could not return to class until someone delivered her clothes. “I was like ‘OK, I’m sorry, but I’m just in math class right now and math is very important.
Tops must cover the “upper body completely,” cover shoulders “by an appropriate width” and worn so undergarments can’t be seen. The board does not condone any dress code enforcement that involves touching or humiliating students, he said. Parents were reminded about the dress code in April, and students were also informed about what was acceptable, said the letter from directrice Marie-Claude Veilleux.
School is a place to learn and yes self expression is necessary but so are dress codes in schools and in life! Wear what you want when you are out but not in schools. There should be some flexibility but still have rules and dress codes need to be enforced !
If people stopped sexualizing girls and women’s bodies schools wouldn’t need to have dress codes.
Are you freaking kidding? Now our children are being targeted by an over reaching government.
Send in thr gestupo
Ridiculous…who ever called them should be let go.
Why don't they just go to another school?
I guess Ottawa is the place where they stifle any form of protest. What’s next, re-instate martial law? Do you know what your teen is wearing?
Just wear the dress 👗
Trespassing on the sidewalk?
And the Conservatives want to give them the vote! Stupidity can't be explained, it takes examples and that is it
Sorry. Bigger fish to fry
Protesting the important things.
School boys need to wear pants that fit with a belt & pull their pants up .
Students go to school to learn in school . Not Dress with sexual appealing clothing to school . Dress with self dignified respect clothing to school .
Future “progressives”
Uniforms
Would not be surprised if they invoke the emergencies act and freeze their lunch money
They're going to the wrong school.