Martha Lee College: Posture and Modesty Training by JP_1814

[PhilMarlowe]

Martha Lee College: Posture and Modesty Training by JP_1814

Posture & Modesty Training is a one credit course that all freshmen who fail the Posture Photo must take. Originally two separate classes, the Posture and Modesty classes were combined in the 1960s when Martha Lee faced budgetary problems. Even after MLC recovered financially, the combined Posture & Modesty Training continued as one class.

Unlike most other college classes Posture & Modesty Training does not have a lecture or a class. Instead the training is a one semester of homework exercises to designed to make the girls a “better part of the Martha Lee sisterhood.”

The exercises start simple enough: balance one book on your head, wear a bikini top/sports bra all day, stand perfectly straight for five minutes. Eventually they get more difficult and humiliating: walk fifty feet with while balancing a book on your head in the nude, go to one class totally naked, strip naked and get a partner to measure the angle of your back.

The major part of their grade is in journaling their experiences. For all exercises the girls are expected to write at least 500 words about their experience. Despite how traditional Martha Lee College is, the availability of cheap, digital, cameras has greatly improved Posture & Modesty Training. Part of the journal is taking “two, clear, high quality photos of you performing the exercise regardless of how embarrassing the exercise might be.” Selfies are not acceptable, they must get another student to take the picture for them.

Another important part of the Training are the pop quizzes. Paid student Posture & Modesty Training assistants go around testing the girls to ensure they are keeping up with the program. They can test the girls in the program anywhere on campus at any time. There are many different types of pop quizzes the assistants are authorized to to: stripping quizzes, clothes confiscation quizzes, balancing quizzes, back angle quizzes, or any combination of quizzes they feel will better help them write their report. They also have the authority to take pictures to help illustrate the points made in their written reports. Their reports and photos become a large percentage of a student’s overall grade in the class.

The final test is a week long nudity endurance test. The girls must spend all week in the nude with their backs perfectly straight. The student assistants and the director will observe the girls in action as they go about their day. If a student fails the final it is extremely hard to pass the class.

Girls must take Posture & Modesty Training until they successfully pass it. No one has ever failed the Posture & Modesty Training more than once.

Despite the humiliation caused by Posture & Modesty Training it does work for many girls. The students of MLC are famous for proper posture and this does not look like it is changing any time soon.