Teachers, students to march against short skirts

Mom Kunthear

Phnom Penh Post

AROUND 300 students, teachers and concerned members of the public will march through the streets of Phnom Penh on Sunday as part of a campaign to discourage female students from wearing short skirts to school, a campaign organiser told the Post Wednesday.

The Khmer Teachers’ Association organised the event as part of an effort to urge the Education Ministry, school heads and university directors to ban short skirts in school, a move it believes will help preserve Khmer culture, said director Seang Bunheang.

“I had the idea to organise the campaign because I want to improve Khmer culture [and retain the culture] that we had many years ago – some Khmer women change their manner by copying other cultures and do things such as wearing short skirts or sexy clothes in schools and public places. That can destroy our culture.

“I see that some female students don’t wear the Khmer student uniform. It seems like a Western uniform,” he said.

Seang Bunheang said he had sent a letter to the Education Ministry to request that it “take measures with female students who wear short
skirts in school”.

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