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Danish teachers told to tone down clothes

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COPENHAGEN, Denmark, April 5 (UPI) -- Schools in Denmark have created dress codes for teachers because some have been appearing in class wearing miniskirts and low-cut blouses.

School authorities in several northern Jutland schools have reprimanded teachers for wearing suggestive clothing or developed dress codes, reported the newspaper Nordjyske Stiftstidende.

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"Clothes should not be too sexy or provocative, a teacher is an authority, and shouldn't walk around with a bare stomach," said Linda Schoneberg, a school principal. "That attracts focus away from studies."

The new dress code for Schoneberg's school also applies to male teachers, but Schoneberg said the ban on see-through blouses and miniskirts did not apply, the Copenhagen Post reported Tuesday.

"But if a teacher came to work wearing a biker's vest, he would be notified that it was not a good example to set for the children," she added.

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