05-18-2005, 10:25 PM
Asalamalaikum
Students get detention for wearing the wrong unfirom all the time. However, if she got EXPELLED or SUSPENDED from school for her dress then I'd have a prolem. However, she got only one detention. 3 years ago I got a detention because I came to school with a purple hijab.
Our uniform was white shirt and green skirt. Anyway, my point is, while we were allowed to wear hijab, we had restrictions. The restriction on the colours was to ensure that we were identifiable as students of that particular highschool, and to create 'uniformity' in the school.
I don't know why we have to stir up so much unnecessary tension. [img]style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif[/img]
Sometimes I can't help but wonder if Muslim's enjoy adopting the victim mentality, even if there's no reason for it.
Islam prescribes a modest dress-code for both boys and girls. Yasamin's highschool provides a variety of clothing material that would allow the Muslim girls to adhere to the Islamic modest dress, while still identifying the highschool at which they attend.
She is being disciplined for wearing a cloak which inevitably will disguise her student identity from that school. Wearing a mantoo is not actually a requirment by islam but a choice, and she could get the same effect by wearing the school uniform in one extra size bigger.
This is not an ISLAMIC issue. It is about the girl wanting to dress the way she wants.
Masha'Allah you all should see what a great HS she goes to and how the Muslim Sisters are covered while respecting the schools policies and still practise their islam.