Those wacky Saudis are at it again:
The Girls’ Education Administration at the Ministry of Education is asking parents to sign to a strict new code of conduct for girls’ schools it has issued.
The regulations deal with both attendance and behavior and specify punishment for transgressors. Under the code, students are given 100 points per semester — 200 for the year — from which points are deducted for violations. The final mark out of 200 is added to the students’ grade and becomes a part of the grade point average or GPA.
The attendance regulations include deductions for absence and tardiness without acceptable excuses; if absences exceed 20 percent of classes, the student is barred from the final examination.
The majority of the code deals with students’ behavior at school and the deductions for each violation. It details desirable behavior for girls, including praying on time, wearing hijab and the appropriate school uniform, punctuality and good manners. Violations are divided into five categories with the fifth mandating temporary expulsion.
Girls will be expelled for disrespectful and blasphemous conduct and beliefs; magic; failure to pray; possessing, taking or selling drugs; deviant behavior; dating and having unlawful relations with men or leading others to this behavior; causing permanent injury to members of the school staff; possessing and using weapons and other dangerous items; and if their presence “becomes a danger to the school”.
When I first read this I thought it was banning magic and possessing, and I thought about how redundant it was because possessions obviously require magic. Easy mistake to make.
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