Boys in skirts force school climbdown

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Anyone see this story? Boys asked if they could wear shorts as it was very hot, but were told nowith a sarcastic comment of "you can wear skirts if you want"...

So they did, all week as a protest, so the school have backed down and will add shorts to the school uniform.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...irts-protest-introduce-shorts-summer-uniform/

I think this is brilliant, peaceful protest at something they considered unfair.
 
Haha, good stuff.

It reminds me of when I was leaving school. A few of the lads got together & decided to wear skirts for their last week. (I didn't have an older sister & my mum wouldn't let me use hers :bat: )
Within 15 mins on the1st Morn. ......................... sent home to change!
Things weren't quite so liberal in the early 70's :D
 
OldCarlos said:
Haha, good stuff.

It reminds me of when I was leaving school. A few of the lads got together & decided to wear skirts for their last week. (I didn't have an older sister & my mum wouldn't let me use hers :bat: )
Within 15 mins on the1st Morn. ......................... sent home to change!
Things weren't quite so liberal in the early 70's :D
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I had long hair back then, and was sent home by the head to get it cut.
My Mother marched me back into his office and told him that until the length of my hair affected my learning abilities it was staying as it was.
It continued to grow...
 
Reading more, one of the boys was sent home as he fell foul of the skirt too short rule :D
 
At my school, the school uniform code was always unfair. In winter everyone had to wear a blazer and tie, yet in the summer girls could discard the blazer and tie and had summer blouses or a summer dress uniform. Boys still had to wear the tie and blazer and it was up to the discretion of the teacher in each lesson whether boys could take off their blazer and if really lucky the tie as well.
 
The argument in favour of school uniform is quite strong, as it stops rivalry between students for who has the best clothes (or at least it should do). Uniform, on theother hand needs to be sensible, and a school not allowing pupils to best interests to be considered in extremely hot weather is little more than bullying by adults.

As a former inspector of schools the most sensible uniform I ever saw was during an educational visit to Israel. One of the schools we visited had negotiated its uniform with pupils, and it worked. The pupils got what they wanted, the school got what it wanted. All the pupils wore denim jeans and jackets, very popular in the late 1970s - and they looked incredibly smart, well turned out and a real credit to the school!
 
In Sri Lanka the government handed over the material and the clothes were made for the children. No matter how poor the families, or their living conditions, the children were always spotlessly turned out for school.
 
Byker28i said:
In Sri Lanka the government handed over the material and the clothes were made for the children. No matter how poor the families, or their living conditions, the children were always spotlessly turned out for school.
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The mothers didn't turn up at the fence smoking in their pyjamas, feeding chips through the fence. Then blame everyone else for everything did they?

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How times change. When I was at school, yes it was a long time ago, we all wore short trousers until 11 or 12. Going into long trousers was almost a rite of passage and when we changed to the long ones none of us would ever consider wearing short ones no matter how hot the weather became.
 
anisah said:
The argument in favour of school uniform is quite strong, as it stops rivalry between students for who has the best clothes
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No it doesn't. When I was at school, we couldn't afford the approved uniform or the PE and separate games kits, so had to make do. This shows up much more than differences in ordinary clothes.

I don't mind a sweatshirt with the school's logo on it, but some of our schools seem to be going back in time, insisting on ties and blazers.


Steve.
 
I believe in this case that the Head Teacher initially acknowledged that whilst shorts weren't in the current uniform they would be going forwards however was unwilling to add it mid year because it might have caused financial hardship for some pupils.


Steve Smith said:
No it doesn't. When I was at school, we couldn't afford the approved uniform or the PE and separate games kits, so had to make do. This shows up much more than differences in ordinary clothes.

I don't mind a sweatshirt with the school's logo on it, but some of our schools seem to be going back in time, insisting on ties and blazers.

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But if everyone else was in designer/fashionable gear you'd have been able to afford that :thinking: I know school uniform isn;t cheap but it's a hell of a lot cheaper than what friends of mine wore to school that didn't have a uniform
 
Uneducated_Rick said:
But if everyone else was in designer/fashionable gear you'd have been able to afford that
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Most of my class at school wouldn't have been able to afford it and I really don't think they would have cared.

When I was in the sixth form, there was no uniform. No one ever commented on what anyone else was wearing - just like they don't outside of school.

Some kids might feel hard done by if their parents don't buy them designer clothes, trainers, etc. but I doubt any of their friends notice or care.


Steve.
 
I too remember how the uniform showed up differences in income, with the poorer kids (me included) in non-fashionable shoes, nylon shirts, a lower-cost blazer etc. When my kids went to school it was no different - people will always find ways to differentiate between the better off & the poor.
 
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