Image Credit: Facebook/Chris Wilson July 06, 2021 - 3:43 PM The Kamloops-Thompson School District has revised their dress code for the 2021-2022 school year after consulting students and other stakeholders to shape the new policy. Although the dress code was scheduled to be revised this year already, when a Norkam student was singled out for her outfit choice in February, the district found increased pressure upon them to reevaluate what changes will be made to the dress code. “Having students directly involved in the revision of this dress code was an important part of this work,” assistant school district superintendent Bill Hamblett said in a news release. “It will also provide principals with the direction they need to ensure the school dress code is current and equitable across the district.”
Image Credit: Facebook/Chris Wilson April 14, 2021 - 5:05 PM The Kamloops-Thompson school district will be implementing a new dress code in the coming months and it has already revamped the code s language following an incident involving a NorKam Secondary School student that gained international attention. Student Karis Wilson was sent home from NorKam Secondary because she made a teacher “uncomfortable” with her fashion choice, a dress overtop a white turtleneck. Her fellow classmates supported her with a walkout, Feb. 25. The current clothing policy says students may not wear clothing that promotes illegal drugs, contains pornographic images or that contains symbols that promotes hate towards a person or persons.
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Image Credit: FACEBOOK/Jamie Maclean February 24, 2021 - 5:22 PM Chants of I stand wih Karis rang out at a secondary school in Kamloops today as controversy flared when her peers walked out to protest action against the girl over her choice of clothing. Dozens of students at NorKam Secondary School protested today, Feb. 24. One had a sign that read, My education is more important than what I wear. The focus of the rally was student Karis Wilson and the fact she was dismissed Tuesday from school over the clothing she wore.
Karis Wilson was dismissed from Norkam Secondary over this outfit.
Image Credit: Facebook/Chris Wilson February 24, 2021 - 12:53 PM A Kamloops student s dismissal from school over her choice of outfit has sparked a much larger controversy about why it s a young woman s responsibility to make males comfortable. Karis Wilson s outfit, a turtleneck under a dress with laced edges, made a female teacher and her male student-teacher uncomfortable, prompting her dismissal from Norkam Secondary school Tuesday, according to a social media statement by her father. My beautiful 17-year-old daughter went to school today feeling excited, feeling good about herself, ready to learn, Christopher Wilson said on a Facebook video. He said she was soon centred out because her outfit could make the teacher uncomfortable, then later asked to leave the school.