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jtimbffe
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veiledsentiments
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| Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2011 2:53 am Post subject: |
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Glad that you got your answers around our hijacks.  Just interrupt us if you need anything further.
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| The students discarded them? At FWC that never happened, even with female teachers. |
If there is anyone currently in Abu Dhabi or Dubai to tell how it is now, I would be interested, but when I was there I never saw an abaya beyond the foyer of the building. As soon as they were in the door they were whipped off, stuffed in their lockers, and the fashion show began. No teacher ever wore an abaya...
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2buckets
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| Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2011 6:12 am Post subject: |
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At ADM all men are required to wear ties. As this is the "flagship" campus and HESN often drops by, one has to keep up appearances, and one also keeps a coat handy to put on when HESN shows up. If you don't wear a tie daily, you get an email about it, then you get invited to visit your supervisor. One "free spirited" teacher had a row with the director about the "dress code" and threw a glass of water on him.
At ADWC the students wear their abayas in the classes taught by men, who are required to wear ties.
At Shahjah Higher Colleges, the head had his glass walled office at the entrance so he could monitor everyones comings and goings. If you walked by without a tie, there was an email waiting for you in a matter of seconds at your pod about the dress code.
At the three different jobs I had in Saudi, ties weren't required. At the two jobs in UAE, they were. At the two jobs in Iran, coat and tie were required, but that's certainly not the case now as ties are seen as symbols of the west. |
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veiledsentiments
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| 2buckets wrote: |
| At ADWC the students wear their abayas in the classes taught by men, who are required to wear ties. |
Interesting... they never wore them even with the men when I was there. Do any women teachers wear abayas now? (non-Emirati)
I really can't remember if the men had to wear ties... probably did though as our top guy was a very traditional British public school principal type. 
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TABING
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Re; Abayas, As I was seconded to ADW for speaking exams, invigilation, and marking sessions this is what I witnessed. Maybe with their own full time teachers the girls are a little more relaxed about dress.
That being said, what these girls wore under their abayas was pretty risque, things I would be uncomfortable with if my own daughters wore it.
It seems they try to outdo each other on the "sluttiness" scale. |
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Middle East Beast
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With all this stuff I'm reading about female students running around w/o abayas, I'm beginning to think I worked at HCT FWC in a parallel universe. 
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veiledsentiments
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| TABING wrote: |
| It seems they try to outdo each other on the "sluttiness" scale. |
That pretty much tags it... although sleeves were always long and skirts went to the floor. But many of the girls did their shopping in London and Paris... and often the jewelry sparkling at us from the class was worth much more than my salary.
As I recall, the most buxom of the lasses tended to the very low cut dresses... and they would sashay into the teacher's offices and beeeeennnd down over one of the male teacher's desks. While the poor male teacher tried to look everywhere else in the room. I felt that the male teachers were not considered a risk as they weren't locals... and it was a game for many of them to fluster the poor fellows. The room would be full of teachers so it provided entertainment for the crowd.
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