Should skirt length matter in secondary schools?

My school skirt was ahem, fairly short, but there’s many I’m seeing around at the moment that are absolutely MICRO.

What an awful school. Is anything being done to help the girls with their self image and self worth?

No one in my office wears skirts that short

They are short enough that any slight bend eg.to pick up your bag or pen would definitely show arse. And that if.you were unfortunate enough to be walking up the stairs behind them then you would also be shown arse.

If boys were flashing their arses then there would be outrage.

I attended 10am mass this morning at my local Catholic Church. As I was getting out the car one of the pupils in the adjacent Catholic secondary school was walking past with a kilt on that was so short her black pants were on display.

i also went to the same school many moons ago and you wouldn’t have dared show up dressed like that because you’d have been sent home and rightly so.

See, this is exactly the kind of rhetoric that’s so unhelpful. Yes, feminism is about liberation from the patriarchy, but in no way is a girl wearing her school skirt as a belt liberating - but too many like to tell girls this.

It seems that the girls round her avoid showing their underwear by wearing thick black tights with their micro skirts. They must feel quite uncomfortable in this hot weather.

If you can wear it to a smart office you should be ok for school. Girls need to know that there are certain standards in life if you want to be respected. Outside school do whatever you like, inside school rules apply.

They call them names, laugh at them. We've had sanctions for eyebrow bullying and eyelash bullying (some girls don't get either done). So yes, they're very judgemental on others' appearance.

They're not being asked to "cover up". They're being prevented from showing their bum cheeks and the gussets of their pants.

They are overtly sending a sexual signal, and school is no place for that.

Of course the parents know... they probably did the same.,
I'm 55... we all rolled our skirts up then, they'll still be rolling them up in 50 years time.

What can be said? "Why aren't you showing off your knickers like us?"

To answer the Aibu..
No, it shouldn't matter it all. It's the fault of the patriarchy and it focuses too much on girls as sexual objects who need to cover up. Bonkers. I support my daughter to wear her skirt however she wants

They really, really do!

As someone who had kids who went to grammar schools the girls in DS's school dressed normally and had sensible skirts. So did DD and the girls at her school

Yes I think the "teasing" thing generally doesn't happen as much as people think.
Most teens these days really don't care what their classmates wear.

Girls with long skirts get teased.

What about Muslim girls? Are they teased?

You do presumably come down hard on the teasing if you hear it, and don't say that girls with long skirts are 'frumpy'? Because girls should be able to wear what they like without being teased.

Yes. Girls with long skirts get teased. Our local High School have a logo on the bottom of the skirt so it can't be shortened permanently, but the girls still roll them up.

Sorry, someone asked upthread if the ankle length skirt I mentioned is uniform in the sixth form at my daughter's school - it is.

There are several schools in the UK where this is the same - another poster mentioned Rugby, not my daughter's school but similar set up.

Which is why schools shouldn’t allow pupils to dictate terms.

Many of the girls at the school my DC attend petitioned to be able to wear jumpers instead of blazers as opposed to compulsory blazers with optional jumpers. Their whole argument was pretty much that they didn’t want their bras being visible through their school shirts but blazers and jumpers was too hot.
Perfectly reasonable however those same girls are now complaining they are being told off for wearing skirts that show their bum cheeks. The lack of blazers has really highlighted how short most of the skirts actually are as most of them tuck their jumpers into the skirts. It’s their right to wear short skirts apparently and if bum cheeks are visible then it’s everyone else’s problem not to look.

Boys getting visually distracted is natural especially when they are teens. A teenage boy is full of hormones and if a girl is sitting there with with a very short skirt and underwear showing a boy is naturally going to look.

My school was like this. I always find it shocking how short skirts are. It’s ridiculous.

Honestly the girls round here literally have their arse cheeks out. It’s not ok.
So yes, they need to enforce it or it just gets ridiculous.
walking up steps behind these girls is seriously obscene.

It’s frustrating that this is still an issue decades on. My school insisted on skirts for girls and trousers for boys, then spent the entire time nagging and punishing the girls for their skirts being too short. Every year we petitioned to be allowed trousers and every year denied. Surely the solution if you want girls legs covered is to allow them to cover their legs with trousers?! Or just allow skirts above the knee and focus on grades??!!

Here we are decades later and girls are still being told that what they wear and how they look is the most important thing to everyone, so is it any wonder that younger generations are so focused on clothes and looks?