Montreal-area high school students protest 'sexist' dress code

Students at Curé-Antoine-Labelle High School near Montreal are protesting after they say their school's administration started pushing what they call a 'sexist' dress code.

Students at Curé-Antoine-Labelle High School in Laval, north of Montreal, are protesting Thursday after they say their school's administration started pushing what they call a "sexist" dress code.

"She [a member of the staff] said that my knees were attractive to the boys. I didn't understand why," said student Isabelle Drouin. "She just said that word for word. Your knees are attractive to the boys; you have to go home."

The students say that as temperatures began rising outside, they started receiving warnings about the length of their shorts.

"It's a bit humiliating, I'd say, to be discriminated by shorts," said Talie Cloutier, a Grade 11 student.

She insists the measures almost exclusively affect female students.

"The shorts we wear as students cover our bodies in a respectable way and don't let anything inappropriate show," she wrote in a letter to Noovo Info. 

The student points out that the school's ventilation system is lacklustre and claims there is no air conditioning.