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The college held the assembly for female students amid a slew of infractions of the schools dress code, which encourages girls to refrain from wearing excessively tight yoga pants, leggings and tights, he said.
“Basically, it's a lot like boys a few years ago wore pants really low, to see their underwear, ” Hanson said of the school’s dress code. “It’s similar now with the leggings as well as yoga pants that are so tightly worn you could see through them … when this occurs you’re not wearing pants anymore. ”
Devils Lake High School principal Jones Hanson told The Huffington Post that female students at the school received an assembly last week to teach them about the school’s dress code and the other ways in which one’s appearance can impact their image. During the assembly, two female educators showed students clips of "Pretty Woman, " a movie in which the main personality played by Julia Roberts is a prostitute. After the clips, a teacher top the assembly reportedly compared the female students to Robert’s character, according to nearby outlet Valley News Live.
“'[Pretty Woman]' was used in 2 small clips, one where Julia Roberts is scantily clad and strolls into a store and they basically admonish her and say this probably is not the store for you, ” Hanson said told HuffPost. “The next clip revealed her after a makeover, dressed to the nines really looking appropriate. She adopts the same store and they treat her much differently. ”
Hanson said the objective of the clips were to show students that “you are in charge of the picture you project to others and how you want to be perceived, ” and he rejected that a teacher ever compared students to prostitutes. However , he admitted which, “'Pretty Woman' was a poor choice to use for the movie clips. ”
A number of students and a parent spoke out against the dress code to Valley Information Live.
"A lot of the parents went on Facebook and we were discussing it, ” said local parent Candace Olsen to the outlet. “They were talking about how they believe the boys should be able to control themselves and the girls should be able to wear the tights and the jeggings … when I was in high school, I think we wore a little bit more attention grabbing clothing. "
One student also noted that male teachers are not permitted to tell female students when they are in violation of the dress code, and that men teachers must get a female teacher to the student of her transgression.
Hanson denied this charge. He said that male teachers are allowed to tell female college students if they violated the dress code, although “its just an uncomfortable situation. ”
Phyllis Kadyrmas, a female teacher who led the "Pretty Woman" assembly for students, stated she thinks the whole situation has been overblown, according to the Devils Lake Journal.
“It was a stressful thing and I’ve taught a long time and been through a lot of fights, ” said Kadyrmas on the controversy. “We just wanted a visual example of how you dress is -- how people percieve you. ”
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