Montreal-area high school students protest 'sexist' dress code
CTV
Students at Curé-Antoine-Labelle High School near Montreal are protesting after they say their school's administration started pushing what they call a 'sexist' dress code.
Students at Curé-Antoine-Labelle High School in Laval, north of Montreal, are protesting Thursday after they say their school's administration started pushing what they call a "sexist" dress code.
"She [a member of the staff] said that my knees were attractive to the boys. I didn't understand why," said student Isabelle Drouin. "She just said that word for word. Your knees are attractive to the boys; you have to go home."
The students say that as temperatures began rising outside, they started receiving warnings about the length of their shorts.
"It's a bit humiliating, I'd say, to be discriminated by shorts," said Talie Cloutier, a Grade 11 student.
She insists the measures almost exclusively affect female students.
"The shorts we wear as students cover our bodies in a respectable way and don't let anything inappropriate show," she wrote in a letter to Noovo Info.
The student points out that the school's ventilation system is lacklustre and claims there is no air conditioning.
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