Brunet and Mclaurin on the protest. Photograph by Claire McCormack
A bunch of scholars from St. Mary’s Catholic Excessive Faculty in Owen Sound protested what they name an ‘unfair and biased’ costume code Thursday afternoon.
The rally, held at Victoria Park was known as, “Justice for the Women at St Mary’s.”
Protester and senior pupil Alexis Brunet says,”It’s unfairly focused in the direction of females.”
College students created a change.org petition that, as of 6 p.m. Could nineteenth, had 549 signatures on it. The varsity doesn’t have a required uniform.
It requires “new and correctly enforced guidelines for all,” together with a gathering with the Bruce Gray Catholic District Faculty Board and the father or mother committee.
The petition additionally requires constant and clear training for lecturers in regards to the costume code with regard to what’s included in it, the extent of sensitivity with which it’s enforced and what protest organizers name ‘policing minors’ our bodies.’
In addition they need extra allowances to be made to accommodate various physique sorts.
They need the elimination of male lecturers from the policing of feminine costume code (excluding the principal or vice principal), and to have feminine lecturers implement costume code for feminine college students, and male lecturers implement costume code for male college students.
One protester, Mollie Mclaurin says, “We go to a Catholic Faculty and I believe it’s necessary that costume code is there and established, however the concept is that it’s tremendous insensitive.”
In the meantime, Brunet says, “It falls again on the feminine college students who get in bother after they come to high school and so they suppose they’re in costume code and so they get publicly shamed and embarrassed. It’s not okay and there must be a change.”
Brunet argues boys usually are not criticized for displaying their shoulders the best way ladies are. “You may see a number of boys sporting muscle shirts and issues like that— that females wouldn’t be allowed to put on.”
Brunet says she is conscious of a current costume code protest at an Ottawa college, noting, “I did have a look at that lengthy and laborious, and I did get a number of concepts from that and I’m very pleased with these individuals.”
Bayshore Broadcasting Information didn’t obtain a response to a request for remark from the Bruce Gray Catholic District Faculty Board earlier than publication time.
