CHARLESTON, W. Va. – The Kanawha County school district wants to line teachers up and measure their skirts, if you believe the blatherings of Christine Campbell, president of the American Federation of Teachers-West Virginia.

“What are we trying to do? Does this really impair the children’s ability to learn, and where does it stop? Are we going to line teachers up and measure the length of their skirts?” Campbell asked, in regard to a school board proposal to create a modest, professional dress code for teachers. “Let teachers do their jobs and focus on education instead of imposing someone’s personal preference on their style.”

The school board’s concern stems from a school visit by board member Becky Jordon, according to the Spirit of Jefferson. She found that teachers certainly do express their personal styles, and Jordan believes some of those styles may not be appropriate for people working with children.

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“I was at a school recently and a teacher had the back out of her shirt and a big tattoo was showing. I’ve seen some teachers whose skirts are so short that it does draw attention,” Jordan told the paper.

Campbell and her union think that’s perfectly fine, because show-it-all wardrobes are “in” these days.

“We’re living in a new culture. We’re looking to attract new, young teachers, and for a lot of young people, that’s the way they express themselves,” Campbell said.

In other words, don’t expect schools to be places of professionalism. That isn’t cool and may drive away those hip new teachers.

Elementary school Principal Beth Sturgill thinks a dress code is necessary in a professional environment, and she doesn’t think “sweat suits” are professional.

The AFT-WV has previously gone apoplectic over proposed dress codes.

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In 2001, the district proposed banning “blue jeans, strapless dresses, low-cut blouses and Spandex.” That idea failed and Spandex lived to see another day inside the classrooms of Kanawha County.

Last August, the union threatened the Lewis County school district with legal action over a similar proposal.

“From 1915, when they had to have two petticoats and they could not have a skirt more than two inches above their ankles,” Campbell said of that district’s idea. “We hope that we are not going back down that road.”

Union attorney Jeff Blaydes said a proposed dress code was “inconsistent with [teachers’] statutory and constitutional rights.”

Does the U.S. Constitution or West Virginia’s state Constitution really say anything about the right of teachers to wear Spandex and low-cut blouses in front of 3rd graders, or is that just another lawyer talking a lot of nonsense?

We would bet on the latter.