The hoody girl

A new girl arrived from a sister school down the road. She arrived at my class wearing a hoodie so I asked her to take it off. She simply stared blankly. I told another student on the other side of the classroom to take his hoody off. He did and so the correct behaviour was modelled for her. “We don’t wear hoodies in this classroom,” I said politely. She still refused to remove the hoody and sat staring blankly. However, next lesson, no hoody.