Posted on 12/23/2009 10:59:02 AM PST by smokingfrog
High-school kids in France are fighting for their right to wear revealing clothing to school. Apparently some schools have new dress codes that ban things like short skirts, piercings, and low-slung pants. At one school last week, a chick managed to convince 300 of 2,100 students to come to school dressed in violation of the new code. This meant revealing shorts or minis for girls and board shorts for guys. Their new headmaster was trying to ban skirts above the knee and clothes with holes in them. The protest organizer got in trouble, obviously.
Her actions led to a three-day suspension, justified by a concern that students "could come across paedophiles on the way to school".
Protesters said the demonstration wasn't a fight to dress like a skank, but a fight for freedom.
"We're at school, we don't want to feel like we are in a prison," one student said.
Well, young one, school is like prison, just with lower stakes. You get in trouble if you leave, they make you do things you don't want to do, and you have to sit in small rooms for extended periods of time feeling bored. However, one school is more prisonlike than others:
At Lycée Saint-Jean-Hulst in Versailles, girls who turn up in short garments are given plain overalls to wear to discourage them from trying it again.
But this is the beauty of French kids: They don't take authority lying down, they cast their cheeky cutoffs and attitudes to the wind.
Meanwhile, students at Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire are not stopping at protests against clothing regulations. When it was rumoured that the head would ban all contact between couples on the school grounds, they threatened to stage a "day of kissing".
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Let ‘em do what they want.
Under Sharia law, they’ll soon get their comeuppance... and given their idiocy thus far, that law is not far in the future.
More evidence needed.
Then her mamma explained that they sell them with holes...at $30 a crack....on sale!!
Dude, these are children.
Teen-age girls in skanky skirts? This is uheard of! I am shocked, shocked that this has happened.
That ain’t skanky, that’s haute couture!
Non coupable.
oui oui
Rebellious french women.
They are getting all oui oui'd up.
Oh la la
LOL!
ROFLOL!
Dang, just dang!
You mean the days of American men marrying high school girls ended? I thought our war fighters were still dating and marrying high school girls.
School of Ho’s
Its not like they do any learning there.
Their parents are so proud. lol.
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