DEVILS LAKE, N.D. – Hey girls, do you want to look like a street walking hooker, or a refined socialite?

That’s the question school officials at North Dakota’s Devils Lake High School posed to female students recently when they forced them to watch two scenes from “Pretty Woman” – the 1990 romantic comedy starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere – in which successful businessman Edward Lewis remakes LA prostitute Vivian Ward into a socially acceptable companion, Pix11.com reports.

The intent is to help officials explain why they decided to ban yoga pants, leggings, jeggings and excessively tight jeans at school, but most students and parents seem to think the ban is an unnecessary waste of time.

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“The assistant principal says the ban is to keep male students focused on their classwork and to prevent teachers from being distracted,” the news site reports.

“Not too hot about it, because that what everyone wears, that’s their whole wardrobe,” senior Mariah Fixen told ValleyNewsLive.com. “So, basically sweat pants every day is what they’re asking for.”

Taylor Gilbertson, also a senior, told the news site he believes school officials should more focused bulling and “online stuff and people tweeting about each other.”

“They should be focusing more on that and not dumb stuff like yoga pants. We should be able to wear whatever we want,” he said.

Fixen alleges the tight pants have been a problem for male teachers.

“In some cases where there will be male teachers, they can’t tell you what you’re wearing is distracting … so they have to get a female teacher to tell you,” she told Valley News Live.

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Aside from forcing the school’s teen girls to compare themselves to a prostitute, the news site reports “an English teacher also make reference to the girls looking like prostitutes walking the streets.

“The assistant principal admitted that the teacher probably shouldn’t have said what she did … adding, that this new policy is not meant to objectify girls, but to stop boys from focusing on something other than class work,” according to the site.

“A lot of parents went on Facebook and we were discussing it,” parent Candace Olsen said. “They were talking about how they think the boys should be able to control themselves and girls should be able to wear the leggings and the jeggings and you know, the squirts and stuff. And, when I was in high school, I think we wore a little bit more provocative clothing.”