OTTAWA (OttawaCitizen.com) â€” Students at St. Joseph Catholic High School in Barrhaven are being told to keep their yoga pants at home unless they’re sufficiently covered up.

The rule isn’t new: The Ottawa Catholic School Board says the school is simply enforcing its existing dress code. Yoga pants are fine, the board says, as long as long shirts or sweaters cover up the revealing bottoms.

One disappointed parent, Kathie Cloutier, sent a letter to the school board and then posted her complaint on Facebook.

“Why is the emphasis not more on my daughter’s actual education rather than what pants she’s wearing?” Cloutier wrote. “Does our school system really have nothing better to do than come up with more reasons to make students rebel? It seems to me that schools seem to concentrate more on ‘appearances’ rather than what they are actually there for — to teach our children.

“Enough is enough already — please just worry about teaching my child rather than turning them off of attending school by imposing ridiculous bans such as this one. … As far as I’m concerned, if the schools keep pushing these ridiculous rules — all you will succeed in doing is pushing our children’s’ interest in school right out the door!”