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You don't need to have an explicit policy and rule for everything.  Any professional body or designation has (or should have) a purposely vague conduct section for this sort of thing.  I've never seen a dress code that covered comic-sized prosthetic breasts, have you? 

This is the sort of thing that even the Teacher's College should have waded into, if they want to have any sort of credibility on these issues.  I generally fall in with the "woke" side of these debates, but when we can't even take confident action with the truly preposterous, we light a beacon for the dumdums rally around and rage against.  This whole thing was stupid.  We make a laughingstock of ourselves bumbling around over things like this.   

The problem is, that because conservatives oppose it, lemmings in this forum have to reflexively support it.  It's a team sport to them, even if it means supporting the dumbest, most illogical thing ever.

You can't have rules for everything.  No dress code in existence would have covered this, except maybe the expectation that he wear a bra.  Our legal system and even our Charter is full of areas of interpretation and caveats to cover stupidity like this. 

Testing of boundaries, sure, but not intentionally making a mockery of them.

This person was either intentionally trolling, or he's mentally unstable. No reasonable person would have assumed that comic-sized prosthetic breasts were appropriate or reasonable behavior in a professional setting, nevermind the potentially impressionable students at hand.

We are a Common Law society.  We do not have, nor do we expect to have, codified rules for everything.  There are many things that reasonable human beings would avoid doing and expect others to avoid doing through simple common sense.  Wearing comic-sized prosthetic breasts to teach a classroom falls under the same common-sense umbrella as, say, bringing your crusty anime sex-pillow with you and insisting on having it sit beside you while you work.  You're not going to find any official rulings or guidelines on this, but there's a reasonable expectation in any public setting, and particularly a professional setting, that this behavior isn't allowed.  Good luck finding a lawyer who'll take the case arguing your right to do that on contingency. 

Even if the school board ridiculously doesn't have professional standards of conduct (which I doubt), the Teacher's College does.

“Teachers are required to uphold the standards of their professional practice and ethical standards both in and out of the classroom,” says the report, signed by Diana Miles, chair of the college’s council, and Chantal Bélisle, the college’s chief executive officer.

School boards, in turn, must set and enforce rules for teachers to follow, the report says.

“Employers and school administrators have the primary responsibility to enforce their own policies and procedures. In most cases, school boards can and do address breaches of their policies and no regulatory intervention is necessary.”

They only came up with a policy after they were threatened by lawsuits from parents.

The Halton District School Board concluded in a newly released report that the board should not bring in a dress code for teachers because of human rights concerns.
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Sari Taha, the superintendent of human resources with the school board, told trustees that there are two considerations regarding dress codes. The first is whether a dress code would be allowed under labour and employment law. The second is whether it would be contrary to Ontario’s Human Rights Code.

Either way, the board can’t make any changes right now because it cannot update workplace rules during collective bargaining, which is ongoing. “Even if we are to consider a workplace rule in that sense, we can’t do that,” Taha told the board.

Still, the report concluded that the board would be exposed to “considerable liability” if it implemented a dress code on the basis of it being considered discriminatory.

“Where an employer’s dress or grooming standards create a discriminatory impact, it will be incumbent on the employer to establish that the standards are a bona fide occupational requirement, most likely on the basis that they are necessary to protect workplace health and safety,” the report says.

It notes that discrimination could take the form of a dress code that places more onerous requirements on female employees or forces them to dress in a more conventional manner. Any rules on grooming and clothing would also need to allow sufficient latitude for religious staff, the report says.

Maybe they had bad lawyer advice r maybe they're more willing to call Boob Guy's bluff, but the point is, you cannot legally enforce a policy that does not exist.

I bet they'd have come up with a policy pretty quickly if he'd worn a swastika over those t!ts.