The problem about your "pleated skirts" mantra is that it is meaningless to me. I now imagine that if I went to a high school in your region, I could identify the girls who are repressed by their Christian parents? Is that right?

Parents who teach their daughters that their place in life is a subordinated one, may choose to impose certain clothes,

Good to see we agree on that!

but these clothes are only a symptom

They are clearly understood as such. My point is that it is legitimate to ban such "symptoms" from school, because they are harmful to a girl's development.

Or is a constant reminder of one's subordinate status a good thing? I fear it may provoke cognitive dissonance, in a school environment where a subordinate status with respect to males is neither required nor approved of.

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II}