Sikh School Kicks Out Baptised Girl Student Who Refused To Wear Skirt

[citizen_soulja]

Sikh school turns out baptised girl student who refused to wear skirt

WSN Network

JALANDHAR: A nine-year-old baptized Sikh girl who sports turban and belongs to a deeply religious family was made to undergo humiliating treatment when she was told to go home unless she agreed to attend school attired in a skirt instead of salwar kameez that she ordinarily wore.

Ironically, the school is named after the ninth Sikh Guru and is run by a Sikh community educational trust and is affiliated to the CBSE. The Trust’s secretary is a former SGPC executive member and is currently a member of the SGPC’s Dharam Parchar Committee. Jaskaranpreet Kaur, the girl who was asked to switch to skirts, is a class 4 student at Guru Teg Bahadur Public School, Hazara which is run by Guru Teg Bahadur Educational Trust. She had partaken of Amrit only this Vaisakhi at a local gurdwara and went to school wearing a salwar- kameez the next day when she was told by the principal to leave the campus for not being in uniform. The school has since refused to take her back till she agrees to its sartorial edict. Parents of the girl have sent petitions to the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee and the Akal Takht but have elicited little response.

Jaskaranpreet has been going to this school for five years. Her brother and sister attend the same school. The girl’s father Surinder Singh, a villager from Johal Bolina, said that their religious sentiments should be honoured. Trust Secretary Surjit Singh Cheema, a former SGPC member, insisted that the girl must stick to the dress code for students – a shirt and skirt for girls up to class VII – which he said was clearly stated in the prospectus. The uniform does not violate ‘maryada’. “Amritdhari girls abroad are known to wear jeans and it does not show contempt of any religious code,” he said, and showed no sign of relenting.

20 May 2009

http://worldsikhnews...ear%20skirt.htm

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[Matheen]

What idiots!

[BhForce]

Apne (so-called "our people") are worse Angrez's (Englishmen) than the English!

As for the jeans-wearing Amritdharies: Lol. Props to the school principal for trying to go to the lowest level. Is this the way she runs her school? (Rinky threw a spitwad at the teacher, why can't I?)

Seriously, though, as long as the salwar-kameez is generally matching school colours, the principal is just making a problem where there is none.

By the way, what's the point of uniforms again? Keeping order in the school, allowing poorer kids to not have to compete with expensive brand names, minimizing sexual and other distractions, right?

Also, I bet if she's saying this, she also would have a problem with Sikh boys wearing turbans before the designated year in which they're supposed to stop wearing kiddie patkas.

[BhForce]

I guess I misread the article originally. I saw IV = 4th year. Actually, it's VII = class 7 students!

Having girls up to 4th wearing those pleated Catholic school mini-skirts is sort of perverted, but this takes the cake.

So this principal lady wants to have pubescent girls who are possibly having to deal with some difficult bodily situations forced to wear skirts! Mini, at that. Not to mention the fact hair on the legs is growing at that age, and I would suspect in that sort of Angrez environment girls would be facing peer pressure to shave their legs. It only takes a few girls from non practicing families to shave their legs and then make fun of those who don't.

Have a look at this picture of girls from the school sitting trying to do kirtan in mini-skirts lol (scroll down a little for the pic):

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2007/20070518/jplus1.htm#11

The skirts are stretched to the limit as they've been pulled forward trying to (barely) cover the girls' legs.

Totally unbelievable.

As a side note, check out the permanently attached sewed-on "chunnis", lol.