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The Geneva girls feel discriminated against and take their anger to the streets. Dress codes in schools are also controversial in German-speaking Switzerland.
In bra against discrimination: Geneva girls protested against the dress code in schools this week.
Photo: Salvatore Di Nolfi (Keystone)
The weather is getting cooler. Kshort shirts will be less common. So this is not the time Geneva high school students With Reproach rI have to admit that they would withYou wear tight clothes. But everything was different in summer. This week, young women took to the streets in Geneva. They protested because they were in schools Wear pants Have to, Yes educators find her clothing too provocative. What happened?
«She was wearing a closed-neck sweater, but it was it was short so one my belly button Mountain range. So they gave me an oversized t-shirt at school that I had to wear»one is outraged Student of Panchard College. Also parents bother sme. A mother says: «The first day of school after summer break. placesme Employee the school administration the Type and diverted those girls who, according to his criteria, were in underwear. You had to Oversized shirt to use when they want to go to the classroom»said the woman. On the XXL t-shirts of the Collège de la Panchard it says: «I am wearing the correct clothes!» Above is emblazoned stretched Thumb how to get it out of Facebook knows. Those who did not want to wear the shirt were sent home to change.
“The shamelessness is not in my cleavage, but in your gaze,” says the Geneva high school student to her teacher.
Photo: Salvatore Di Nolfi (Keystone)
Under the hashtag #TshirtDeLaHonte dStrike Twitter users the Geneva school dress code for days. Friday night hat rehe debates the Cantonal Council of Geneva reached. rethe fraction of «Set left»Delivered one urgent Movement one. She demands: No one in Geneva schools should be “humiliated and sent home” for clothing that is deemed incorrect, inadmissible or offensive. Such sanctions are “arbitrary, humiliating and discriminatory”. The school law establishes that every student has the right to “special protection of their physical and mental integrity and respect for their dignity.”
“In 2020, students in Switzerland will be trained in a patriarchal environment.”
D. Talk about “medieval methods”he 66 years old left Geneva Cantonal Judge Jocelyne Haller. Councilor Dilara Bayrak (Greens), 23, agrees. She says: “I am bothered by the constant interference of society in the way women dress. If a piece of cloth does not cover the navel, shoulder or thigh, it is perceived as provocative and leads to stigmatization of young women. Young men have probably never had to wear the shirts. “That is shameful.” In 2020, students in Switzerland will be trained in an environment where patriarchy is structural and only questioned if civil society is bothered. ” Bayrak notes.
Education director defends herself
Anne Emery-Torracinta, Geneva Education Director (SP) defended the dress code hmengegen iIn an interview with the newspaper «Geneva Tribune». «Legislators and the department want students to be dressed appropriately», Emery-Torracinta said. The school is «a place of learning, Y is there should be no obstacle. There are also fairly clear rules in the business world for which we prepare young people.Said the SP woman. However, now she wants to deal with the. protestnorth Teenagersnorth meet for a discussion.
Discussions about clothing are also increasing in German-speaking schools – and get hotter. RE.The councilor of Aargau SP, Lelia Hunziker krmerecently iIn a column of the “Aargauer Zeitung”, restrictive methods single Communities. It bothers them that Students recently one written Entry in the interim report To get, If you not dressing appropriately. WWhen schools evaluate what is appropriate or decentHey, be that complicated, yeahHunziker wrote. The training companies would then carefully examine the intermediate certificates.
“The neckline hides the neckline and the bra”
The Aarau-Buchs District School, the largest school in the canton, had issued the new dress code.. Point «Ist dress appropriately for the classroom » is it is now an indicator in the interim report. reMerenschwand school again put the dress code by school year 2017/18 with a drawing and captions fest. rea says something like: “The neckline hides the neckline and the bra” or “If the leggings: never without something on top”. Or for children: “Training pants belong to physical education.And at Seengen, the students who were dressed inappropriately had to wear oversized shirts, just like the students Geneva.
Kathrin Scholl, president of the Aargau Teachers Association, doesn’t think much about restrictions. you denies clothingrregulations and sanctions and is based on discussions and interventions on a judicious basis. When the school has such strict regulations for clothingme, according to the syllabus, you would also have to check if students slept wellmememeny what they have for breakfastakillthinks Scholl. All of thatIt’s sinking Personal and social skills subsumedfor which parents are primarily responsible and the school provides a rough framework. «Whe says it’s the training pants? There are expensive boutiques that sell pants that look like training pants, ”says Scholl, die 17 Years in the He has been a teacher in primary and secondary schools.
“If a girl wants to wear her new tank top after the holidays, it doesn’t matter.”
She says: «When a girl after the holidays her new carriersShepherd wants to show, that’s not so bad. “I would seek conversation if a child was constantly dressed and dressed inappropriately for the weather.
Mothers in Geneva protested with their daughters. “I am not the center of the world, take care of other things !!!” a mother wrote on her poster.
Photo: Salvatore Di Nolfi (Keystone)
reHowever, he recognizes that tackling the issue is not easy for schools and teachers. In some cases, legal advice is sought from the teachers’ association. “Then things turn around, then they say: Why is this teacher always looking at my breasts?” Some students consciously use clothing as provocationsays Scholl.
