A Texas school district removed a duty requiring girls to follow “rules of chivalry,” including dressing “feminine to please men” and without “complaining or whining.”
According to KLBK TV station, this assignment was to be completed this week by the students of Shallowater High School. The district has received a lot of criticism on its website.
The aim of the work was to “demonstrate how the code of chivalry and the norms established in the medieval concept of courtly love continued into modern times”.
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The instructions stated that “ladies deemed worthy of the honor by gentlemen” would receive 10 points for each signature received as each task was completed. Among these tasks: cooking for the boys in their class, walking “behind the men with delicacy as if their feet were tied”, cleaning the inside and outside of the classrooms, and refusing to “show intellectual superiority if it offended them. men around them. ”
The Shallowater Independent School District did not immediately recall the Associated Press.
In a statement to the TV station, the school district said the assignment was reviewed and canceled in conjunction with the teacher. He acknowledged that “despite its historical background, it does not reflect [ses] values and those of our community ”.
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