Education is meant to help break ridiculous stereotypes, not reinforce them. It seems, however, that city schools have not got the message. After two students were molested by staffers in a co-education ICSE school in Juhu, the management has fallen back on the oldest trick in the book to prevent such cases in the future preventing their students from dressing ‘provocatively’ during school field trips.

The students, some of whom went to Goa for the field trip, were asked to ensure that their swimming costumes also covered the legs. Representation pic/Thinkstock