Male Teachers Put on Skirts to Classes in Solidarity for Student Who Was Expelled
- The male teachers and students have been rocking skirts to school in solidarity with a boy who was expelled for wearing the same
- The group decided to make May the month they wear skirts every day to school and for all academic functions that period
- According to reports, the male student wore a skirt to school in a bid to promote gender nonconformity
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Male teachers and students in Spain recently came together for a course aimed at changing people's perception of sexuality and dress codes.
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Legit.ng learnt that the male teachers and students have in the past few days been attending classes wearing skirts in solidarity with a male student Mikel Gómez, 15 who was expelled from the school for wearing a skirt in November 2020.
According to New York Post, the teachers hope their protest dubbed #ClothesHaveNoGender to support the expelled student will challenge and change the minds of gender stereotypes.
The whole move was initiated by a math teacher named Jose Piñas who rocked a skirt to class after the student was expelled.
The student was also forced to see a psychologist for wearing a skirt to promote gender nonconformity.
Following the incident, Gomez shared a video of himself describing how it happened and was watched by over 2 million people on TikTok.
Gomez's message was amplified by the math teacher Piñas who through social media disclosed was once a victim of the same, just like Gomez.
Piñas wrote:
“20 years ago I suffered persecution and insults for my sexual orientation in the institute where I am now a teacher."
More entrants to the campaign
According to El Pais’ report, two more teachers joined the course and decided to make May the month they wear skirts every day to school.
Students also took to social media and their schools in support of Gómez and the teachers’ efforts as hundreds of boys turned up to school wearing skirts on Nov. 4.
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Kind teacher sews uniform for her students
Meanwhile, Legit.ng previously reported that a teacher who was posted to a village had sewn uniforms for her poor students.
The information available to Legit.ng indicates that when she arrived at the school, Janet realised some of the pupils attended school with either worn-out uniforms or no uniforms at all.
She, therefore, decided to be of help by getting a sewing machine that she had learned to use, to sew uniforms for the pupils at absolutely no cost.
She considered finding solutions to this challenge a collective responsibility thereby engaging in sewing new school uniforms for each and every child in need with her personal funds and with the support from friends and loved ones.
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