LEWIS COUNTY, W.V. – Teachers in the Lewis County school district are prepared to go to court to defend what they believe is their right to wear short skirts to work.

In July, we told you about the school district implementing a new dress code for teachers. It was reportedly prompted by complaints from parents who couldn’t distinguish the students from the employees.

The district banned jeans, faded jeans, shorts and short skirts for employees.

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Union attorney Jeff Blaydes told WDTV the union considered the dress code “inconsistent with [teachers’] statutory and constitutional rights.”

Now that the district is on the eve of a new school year, a showdown over the dress code is brewing. The teachers are waiting to see if the district plans to enforce the code, and if so they are ready to challenge it.

“We just want to actually see if they are going to impose this dress code to the extent that it was established and if so, we will challenge that (in court),” West Virginia American Federation of Teachers President Christine Campbell told MetroNews.

“Our focus right now is are they going to spend their time in Lewis County on education and what’s best for students or are they going to be measuring the length of teacher’s skirts,” Campbell told the paper.

Campbell even speculated that the school policy may be reverting to societal standards from a century ago.

“From 1915, when they had to have two petticoats and they could not have a skirt more than two inches above their ankles,” she said with a laugh, according to the newspaper. “We hope that we are not going back down that road.”

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Does she really think the school district is that backward?

Campbell and her cohorts obviously fail to understand that most people see teachers as “professionals” and want them to act and dress the part.

Is that too much to ask in this day and age?