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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]I'm a grown woman who doesn't wear pants under my dresses, and I've learned how to sit on the floor without showing my underwear. It is possible. "Flowy" skirts go in between your legs, and you sit "sidesaddle" in straight skirts.[/b]

So, I would be perfectly fine with a rule that said: you can sit on the floor as long as your underwear isn't showing. Period. No rules about what they can or can't wear.

But I would have thought the better course of action was for the teacher to take this problem to his supervisor and ask for some advice about how to address it, which would also have given him a chance to express his reasoning for seeing it as a problem. Maybe then that supervisor could have helped him come up with a policy that addressed his concerns without being so sexist. Because it is.[/quote]

You have learned to sit in an appropriate, dare I say it, a lady like manner.

All the children are supposed to sit criss cross.  It's part of teaching them to do what the teacher says, to do what they're supposed to do.  Not argue with the teacher that kneeling or sitting with knees together or whatever is better for Larla today.[/quote]

Well, they aren't all sitting criss-cross, since the girls in dresses have to sit in chairs.  So either you let the girls in dresses sit on the floor with the other kids in a way that does not reveal their underwear, or you make them sit on a chair (so that their underwear is basically at eye level to the kids sitting on the floor).  No visible underwear is a much more defensible rule than "girls must sit in a ladylike manner."[/quote]

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