A Dress Code for Teachers
By Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd)
Westridge-1, Rawalpindi
Mian Shahbaz Sharif is doing commendable work. He has vowed to eliminate spurious drugs from the province and a number of chemist shops and drug stores were raided and sealed by inspectors in Rawalpindi the other day.
In the field of education, apart from other improvements, he has introduced a dress code for male teachers and instructed its strict compliance. May I, through the columns of your esteemed daily, ask him to lay down a similar dress code for lady teachers at ALL – private as well as government – schools and colleges. Needless to say that it will inculcate austerity, simplicity and uniformity among teachers who act as role models for students.
The dress code will also provide a great relief to quite a few teachers haling from the middle and low income groups who cannot afford a different dress-a-day to ‘compete’ with some of their high class snob colleagues who nonchalantly display a different matching attire daily, some never to be worn for the second time!
