What Nonsense

[Bazile]

School bans the wearing of skirts

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-49599078

[pixie374]

//"detracting" staff from teaching//.
Oh dear. Give all pupils the choice.

[Mamyalynne]

They've done this because they clearly failed in enforcing a decent skirt length.

They ought to have managed that.

[maggiebee]

Really? What a load of tosh. Doesn't seem all that long ago when girls were not allowed to wear trousers to school. Parental choice IMO.

[Old_Geezer]

If I recall correctly the boys were banned from it even in my day.
Wasn't part of their uniform.

[pixie374]

Or mine, og. But what does it really matter... it shouldn't be important enough to disrupt education.

[Baldric]

Ah, come on, the Gender Neutrals have to be pandered to, otherwise it's just not fair innit?

[Sqad]

Just do what you are told.
It is purely an exercise in discipline and respect.

[dannyk13]

What a load of codswallop.

[pixie374]

What you wear is nothing to do with discipline or respect. Behaviour is, and should be, but teachers being put off because girls' skirts are "too short" is just wrong.

[Sqad]

pixie

"What you wear is nothing to do with discipline or respect."

I totally disagree. Uniforms are a manifestation of the esp rot de corps that I like to see develop in institutions such as schools at the earliest stage possible and is an integral part of character building which I still think is important. When you leave this institution then one presumes that one can now decide for oneself what one would care to wear, but until that time comes....do what you are told.

[Mamyalynne]

Have the choice - skirt or trousers and make the skirt length mandatory.

[dannyk13]

// make the skirt length mandatory.//
That would be the correct solution.

[Bobbisox1]

I can't see I blame them, we live not far from our local Comp and you can almost see the girls knickers in their uniform

[Sqad]

^^^^ that is if they could agree on the length of skirt and when agree, then stick to the length. That unfortunately would take discipline which seems to be in short supply in many of our schools.

[woofgang]

the problem with skirt lengths is the good old waistband roll

[Mozz71]

The real worry here is staff being "distracted" by skirt lengths. Is this because they are on the look out for rule breakers or more salacious reasons.

If its the former, the school need to prioritise their rules and regulations, if its the latter, they need to take a good long look at the people they are hiring.

[Mamyalynne]

Of course Woof, however if you get detention each time you do it - you stop.

[pixie374]

As long as skirts do cover underwear, they are doing their purpose. Anything else is to avoid distracting males. No discipline or disrespect required for them.

[237SJ]

If they had uniform dresses they wouldn`t be able to roll the skirts up - sorted.

[sanmac]

"Make the skirt length mandatory." How can you dictate the length of the skirt when the pupils are, obviously, of different heights?