{"id":65208,"date":"2015-11-20T00:23:23","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T06:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=65208"},"modified":"2015-11-20T00:23:23","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T06:23:23","slug":"manitoba-teenager-files-complaint-calling-schools-dress-code-sexist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/11\/20\/manitoba-teenager-files-complaint-calling-schools-dress-code-sexist\/","title":{"rendered":"Manitoba teenager files complaint, calling school’s dress code sexist"},"content":{"rendered":"
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WINNIPEG\u2014A 15-year-old Manitoba girl and her family have contacted the Manitoba Human Rights Commission to file a complaint over her school’s dress code.<\/p>\n

Kayla Touchette of Landmark, Man., says this week she wore a shirt with cutouts on the shoulders to the local high school.<\/p>\n

She says the outfit was okayed by her mother but when she arrived at school, a teacher told her to cover up and made her put on a sweater.<\/p>\n

But Kayla says boys in the school wear basketball jerseys without problem and thinks the school’s rule forbidding bare shoulders is being applied unfairly.<\/p>\n

Randy Dueck, superintendent of the Hanover School Division, says each school sets its own dress code reflecting the local environment and are designed to create a safe space for students.<\/p>\n

He says Landmark Collegiate applies their rules equally to boys and girls.<\/p>\n

The school’s student handbook lays out its dress code policy, which says “shirt sleeves must cover the shoulders,”\u00a0but the book only uses pictures of girls with bare shoulders.<\/p>\n

Kayla says she was told when she first started at Landmark Collegiate that girls’ shoulders are distracting.<\/p>\n

She says she was told: “No shoulders showing because they give boys visions.”<\/p>\n

Her grandmother, Eleanor Touchette, says Kayla never leaves the house inappropriately dressed and shouldn’t be responsible for the way boys think.<\/p>\n

“Since when is any person responsible for another person’s thoughts or actions?” she says.<\/p>\n

Kayla also has her father’s support.<\/p>\n

“I believe that my daughter’s rights were violated and that she should be able to wear which she feels comfortable in,” says Travis Robinson.<\/p>\n

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