A middle school in Switzerland has been slammed for shaming girls for wearing what the school deems to be 'indecent' clothing, the Daily Mail reports.
The publication also claims that the 'offending' students - 10 girls and two boys - were forced to wear a 'T-shirt of Shame' at Pinchat Middle School in the outskirts of Geneva.
It was reportedly on the very first day back following the summer vacation that the school made the adolescents wear the oversized t-shirt over their supposedly inappropriate outfits.
Printed on the t-shirts is the name of the school, Pinchat College, and the words, "I'm wearing an appropriate outfit" in French. The top also features an image of a thumbs-up that resembles the Facebook 'like' button.
In response to such outdated measures, hundreds of protestors gathered outside of Pinchat school on Wednesday urging the Swiss school system to stop placing so much emphasis on what female students wear.
The demonstrators were mostly made up of women and girls, some of whom were wearing the kind of outfits which would be deemed indecent by Pinchat school's dress code.
One of the placards at the demonstration read: "Humiliation is not a form of education".
Another demanded that the school system should "Fix your sexism before you fix my outfit".
A third said: "When will there be a T-shirt of shame for teachers who sexualize their students?"
Per the Daily Mail, 15-year-old Elodie talked about her own experience with dress codes as an 11-year-old at a school in Geneva.
Speaking to Radio Television Suisse (RTS), Elodie said: "I was 11 years old, I was in music class when the teacher looked at me and told me that my outfit was not appropriate for the class and that it could attract the eyes of the boys."
She continued: "I was wearing a bib jumper with jeans pants. You could only see my shoulders. He told me to put on my gown, explaining that if I came back dressed like that, he either fired me or he made me wear the shame t-shirt."
News of the t-shirt emerged when a mother of one of the schoolgirls complained to school authorities, saying that the school system had "abused its power ... to humiliate, denigrate and stigmatize young girls" - according to Swiss media outlets.
The school responded to the criticism by insisting that the dress code was applied "independent of sex".