After paying a heavy price for experimenting with ultra-liberism, the western people are feeling again the need of REGULATION for keeping order in the society. Following are some news items which are a big relief to people concerned with morality in today's society.
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A top British school has banned tight-fitting trousers which are 'too sexy' for the classroom. Teachers say the Miss Sexy branded garments are unacceptable because of the way they 'cling' to girl students - making them 'unhelpful' to learning. Now the headteacher of Bradley Stoke Community School in Bristol is cracking down on rule breaches and has spent £400 on 80 pairs of 'standard issue' £5 black trousers.
Any girls caught wearing figure-hugging trousers are forced to change into a regulation pair of trousers, which are hanging on racks near the entrance.
Pupils are required to hand over something of value - such as their mobile phone - as deposit to ensure they return the pair at the end of the school day.
07 March 2009 — A group of conservative politicians is making headway towards a ban on topless bathing on some of Australia's best known beaches. Christian lawmaker and veteran morals campaigner Reverend Fred Nile has won backing from key politicians in New South Wales state, home to Sydney and its famed ocean beaches, to tighten existing laws covering nude sunbathing. The move has provoked strong reaction from easy-going sunworshippers.
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Miniskirts are history in the Italian town of Castellammare di Stabia. The mayor of the town, Luigi Bobbio believes that the move will “restore urban decorum and facilitate better civil co-existence”. Already the new law has several supporters including a local priest, Don Paolo Cecere.
When the new law come into force, offenders will be fined an amount of £20. That amount is the least an offender can be made to pay. Depending on other factors, an offender can be made to pay as much as £450 for violating the law. The town does not want to entertain any skirt that does not reach to the knees.
However that is not the only ban that the town wants to bring into force. The town also plans to ban sunbathing and football at the town’s various parks. Though the measures can be thought of as harsh, the townsfolk seem to go along with the idea.
The priest, Don Paolo told an Italian newspaper that the law was the “right decision” in curbing the increase in sexual harassment. He said “I think it’s the right decision. It’s also a way of combating the rise in sexual harassment”.
Luigi Bobbio won the vote to ban clothing considered ‘very short’. Bobbio said officers have the power to hand out 300-euro fines to offenders on the spot.
One of UK’s top all-girls school has ordered its pupils to wear trousers after a ‘complaint’ about ‘indecent’ length of their skirts.
The head teacher of Sandbach high school, Cheshire, has announced plans to ban skirts from next September because pupils are wearing them too short.
“To remove the problem of inappropriate short shirts once and for all we are considering banning skirts with effect from September 2011,” the Daily Mail quoted John Leigh, head teacher, as saying. Leigh said girls who wore ‘especially short’ skirts had already been given detention and letters had been sent to pupils’ parents, but many girls were unwilling to follow the rules, and now all girls, from years seven to 11, could be made to wear trousers in future.
“A combination of current styles and a propensity for some girls to roll up their skirts has led to complaints from staff, other pupils and public, regarding the decency of some skirts being worn. We have placed those with especially short skirts in detention and have written home to individual parents,” he added.
The move received a lot of anti-reactions from parents and guardians of the students. Grandmother-of-two Julie Griffith, 49, who has a granddaughter at the school, said the move was old fashioned. “I can understand the school wanting to do something about this as some of the girls’ skirts are really short but I think banning skirts altogether is a bit of a dramatic step,” she said. The 1,400-pupil comprehensive is one of the top 50 best schools in England.
A school in Herefordshire has banned short skirts after concerns from parents and staff.
Girls at Whitecross High School in Hereford, whose skirts are deemed too short, face being suspended.
Head teacher Denise Strutt introduced the rule that skirts must rise no higher than the end of the tips of fingers when the arms are placed down.
No girls have been suspended for flouting the ruling yet and the school said parents were supporting it. Ms Strutt said female pupils could also wear trousers if they choose. In June, a school in North Yorkshire said all girls now had to wear trousers because of "inappropriate" skirt lengths. Ms Strutt said girls were warned before the school holidays that the skirt length was changing.
She said: "Skirts were getting shorter and shorter we were getting concerns expressed by members of the public, parents and some staff."
A school uniform shop in Hereford has worked with the school to design an acceptable skirt.
School bans pupils under 15 from wearing skirts A school in North Yorkshire has banned pupils under the age of 15 from wearing skirts, after it was claimed they were attracting unwanted attention.The school claims the girls were pulling up their skirts several inches after leaving school. Something a lot of teenage girls have been doing for years, I might add.From September, the girls at St Aidan's CE High School in Harrogate will have to wear black trousers. Year 11s will be able to wear them, but they must be no more than three inches above the knee.Pupils and parents have stepped forward to criticised the move as 'heavy-handed'. The mixed school's website currently displays a statement which reads 'Very young children, and even more disturbingly, special needs children are clearly wholly unaware of the signals they are giving out'The school regularly features highly on the performance scale, with 89% of GCSE students achieving five or more good grades (far above the UK average of 50%).The school's head Dennis Richards claims he is simply providing 'a duty of care to keep the children safe'