The rebellion is the third case this year of students complaining about school rules on appearance, after a boy at Auckland Grammar School objected to a rule requiring short hair and a boy at Te Puke High School spoke out against a rule against facial hair. "Say you have just got your standard T-shirt on but you're a big-busted girl, they are turning around saying all this sort of thing is provocative towards the male teachers." Related articlesĪnother said: "Get on with teaching and stop shaming girls for wearing normal clothes."
They find they are being discriminated against," the former student said. "The girls feel they are being targeted, especially the girls with a bigger bust. But we are talking workout tights and singlets that are apparently arousing our male teachers."Īn ex-student said male students were allowed to wear ripped jeans but female students were being sent home for wearing them and for minor issues such as coloured fingernails which used to be allowed. "I'm not talking crop tops and short shorts because all students understand that rule. "So many people are getting sent home every day and judged, discriminated against what they wear," one student posted on social media.
Students say the code has been tightened this year to ban low or V-neck tops, tights, ripped jeans, long or coloured fingernails, more than one ring or ear piercing and "anything you can see through, up or down". The college, New Zealand's biggest school with 3157 students, does not require Year 13 students to wear the school uniform but its dress code states: "Smart-casual workplace attire is expected – ie. The petition was taken down todayafter a deputy principal complained that staff had not used the word "arousal", and the school refutes suggestions its staff have been distracted by female dress.
More than 800 people signed a petition started on the website last nightstating: "Women are feeling objectified as the rules only being enforced on them, with teachers referencing that they may not wear tights as it gives male teachers arousal." Rangitoto College students are rebelling against a "sexist" Year 13 dress code. Students at Rangitoto College started a petition against rules barring Year 13 girls from wearing clothes that might arouse male teachers.
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