Within our community we've come to understand that certain terms can make others feel small and discriminated against. For example the terms 'gay' or specific racial slurs. Recently, a team of leaders have been looking into the term 'mufti' and whether it is deemed culturally appropriate.
Within the media there has been a lot of talk about the word 'mufti' and the origins of the word. Many kura across Aotearoa have already decided to move forwards and make a change to the name.
Read some of the articles below:
- Mufti day is enormous fun but time to give it a new name
- School changes name of mufti day due to concerns of cultural insensitivity
- Upper Hutt school renames mufti day to be yourself day after students worry its culturally insensitive
- School renames mufti day
Here at Tauranga Girls' College we value the diversity and in moving forwards have addressed days in which we don't wear uniforms to school as 'Non-uniform day'.
A team will be looking at what we name these days in future...stay tuned!
In addition to the non-uniform day, there was also an optional march around the school at lunch time to show support for the LGBTG+ community.