The fight that comes to visit each summer wraps itself up with feminist messages • But the school is not a beach party - and it is appropriate to insist on clear and equitable dress rules • Opinion
There are a few things to herald the coming of the summer: action movies in the cinema, hail in explosions, commercials for air-conditioners on TV and a threat to a rescue strike. To them is added regularly the struggle of the pantry.
Shorts protests continue across the country
He'll start with one or two girls who come to school in shorts - and the teacher or principal will ask them to come home and change clothes. Will continue in an angry post on Facebook and Instagram, and within a few hours, for identification, social networking will be encapsulated in pictures of girls wearing ultra-shorts, and the following day dozens of poignant discussions will be held with many words such as "feminism", "my right", "want", "impudence" and "Religion."
Year after year the ritual will be repeated with minor changes. This time, it won't be a ninth-grade girl, but 11th, and the pants won't have pockets on the sides, just the back.
This message, with all the respect for women's rights, is distorted. Not because women have no right to wear what they want, but because in the name of this concept we have removed the obligation to respect the place we come to and the people around us.
The fact that the school dresses like the sea, and it doesn't matter if it is boys or girls, is part of a process that encourages disrespect for teachers, administrators and the educational institution. Clothing is part of a culture, dress code is a set of rules, just as teachers do not bathe, nor do they enter their classroom as if it were a beach party.
Parents should be the first to understand it. If they came to buy an apartment, and the realtor would show up in their pants and flip-flops, they would never buy anything from him. If their children's teacher came to a parents' meeting in the shorts - they would immediately want to bring their child to class. So why when their kids and girls dress like this for school is it not perceived as disrespect for teachers and institution, but as self-expression?
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The Israeli summer has become a show of vulgarity. There is no liking to it, nor a statement or assertion of rights. It's just ego. I'm like that, I don't care, who will tell me something, I'm hot. Part of a complex of rudeness and disrespect. Therefore, it is appropriate that a school establish and adhere to clear clothing rules. They must be equal, with no difference between boys and girls. Not to mention modesty, nor temptation, are words that must come out of the lexicon. But yes talk about proper and proper clothing and respect.
The right of a teacher to come into the classroom and feel respected. It is a teacher's right to sit with his students and not know what color their underwear is in the hope that they will wear such. And no, this is not conservatism or misogyny, it's a simple understanding that the school is allowed to require your children what you require from your bank clerk - to dress accordingly.