W.P. Sandin student raises concerns over dress code
Students at a Shellbrook school are expressing concerns about a meeting at the school on the topic of the dress code.
Darla Bruneau, a Grade 10 student at W.P Sandin Public High School, said she and her female peers were pulled into a meeting with school staff to discuss the dress code June 18. She said staff members told the girls they had been receiving complaints regarding their clothing choices.
Bruneau said many of the girls are dressing for the weather in tank-tops and shorts, and now they feel they have been targeted based on their gender.
“I kinda felt like I was unaccepted as a female … and that I shouldn’t feel confident in what’s on my own skin,” Bruneau told paNOW. “I felt out of place, like I should have been born as a guy, not a girl, and this would be better for me.”