{"id":50620,"date":"2015-05-27T22:44:26","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T14:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=50620"},"modified":"2015-05-28T15:05:57","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T07:05:57","slug":"toronto-students-wear-crop-tops-to-school-in-dress-code-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/05\/27\/toronto-students-wear-crop-tops-to-school-in-dress-code-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto students wear crop tops to school in dress code protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_50621\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50621\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/canada-dress-code.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-50621\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/canada-dress-code.jpg\" alt=\"Students showed up in crop tops at a Toronto high school on Tuesday to protest the school's dress code (Facebook photo)\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/canada-dress-code.jpg 600w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/canada-dress-code-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50621\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students showed up in crop tops at a Toronto high school on Tuesday to protest the school&#8217;s dress code (Facebook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>TORONTO &#8212; Students showed up in crop tops at a Toronto high school on Tuesday in a protest that came after school officials deemed one teen&#8217;s wardrobe inappropriate.<\/p>\n<p>Alexi Halket says she was told Monday by the principal at the Etobicoke School for the Arts to cover up her &#8220;inappropriate&#8221; top that showed her midriff.<\/p>\n<p>She says she was told to wear something different the following day, but felt she was being judged by teachers for showing some skin, so she turned to Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s where she created a page to launch her protest and wanted others to wear crop tops to school the following day.<\/p>\n<p>Halket, 18, says dozens of students &#8212; both girls and boys &#8212; showed up to school baring their bellies.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman with the Toronto District School Board says students need to dress appropriately for school and what Halket wore wasn&#8217;t considered appropriate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &#8212; Students showed up in crop tops at a Toronto high school on Tuesday in a protest that came &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":50621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}