Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/10/07
By: Chao Li-yen and Lilian Wu
Taipei, Oct. 7 (CNA) National Taichung Girls Senior High School students wore shorts to
Responding to a “wear shorts to school today” campaign on Facebook, students wore shorts or changed into them when they started to arrive at school at 7 a.m.
They were immediately marked down for violating school regulations on dress code by drillmasters. If marked down four times, the students will get a warning or be forced into doing school service.
The students have been demanding the right to wear shorts. Last week during a flag-raising ceremony, scores of them removed their skirts to display shorts underneath, shouting the slogans “equal rights for men and women” and “it’s no sin to wear shorts.” [FULL STORY]