AIBU to challenge the school’s wording about pupils rolling skirts up?

I am sick of walking down the road to the shops and seeing school girls with both cheeks of their arse hanging out. Creating unnecessary stares from passers by who don't know where to look.

Totally agree

"....is this not clearly implying that short skirts = making themselves vulnerable and if is, then if anything bad happens as a result it is their own fault?".

No, that's not what it's implying. That is what YOU are inferring. Two completely different things. It says they're "making themselves vulnerable", NOT "making themselves provocative"! And they are making themselves vulnerable. That doesn't mean what you seem to think it does. Apart from that, the rolled skirt look is horrible, and some girls do take it too far!

You are over thinking this. If the school has a policy about skirt length and not rolling up skirts to an unacceptable length then that is the policy and needs to be followed.

School uniform is fine. Never had an issue. You wear it to school..simple as

School uniform is a good thing when worn according to the rules. It is a leveller and prevents jealousy and competition between those who can’t afford the latest clothes and shoes and those who wear designer gear. The schools need to be more rigorous when enforcing the rules, and parents should support the teachers.

You should never be attacked for a lack of clothing. But that does not make a lack of clothing appropriate

School uniform is stupid, honestly. Other countries don't have this problem because uniforms aren't a thing everywhere. DD doesn't ever wear short skirts outside of school.

My kids secondary have a very strict uniform policy all year and then in the summer on the hottest days they are told to wear their PE kit, which for the girls is a skort which shows off all their arse cheeks in the breeze. They're expected to walk to school in that and give the whole town an eye full.

My DD rolls her skirt up, I've caught her. The school have only one specific skirt they are allowed to wear which was brought in to prevent it being rolled up. It costs about 4x the price of an Asda one and it can be rolled up fairly easily. I only buy her thick tights to wear with it so she's not showing anything whatever she does. On non-uniform days they all wear jeans. I wonder why we're bothering.

I spoke to my son about this who told me in his mixed grammar school 6th form that the girls all he weng to 6th form with wore their skirts normally as per school rules..he remembers an assembly once saying that girls can be sent home if skirts too short

There's one very good reason why these girls should dress more modestly, namely that they are influencing men to see young girls as sexually desirable. If the girls look like children and are dressed like children men will generally ignore them, but most men would be sexually attracted to a physically developed young woman in revealing clothing, even if they'd never admit it.

Once that thought has been planted it stays there. And even though the vast majority of men would never take any action it really can't be good for society that ordinary men, who wouldn't remotely consider themselves perverts, start seeing teenage girls as objects of desire.

I’m good. Thanks.

A teen boy will look, it's just in their nature and how they are wired. Especially with hormones flying through. They will look, it's only natural

Oh yes they can.

It might be “ er…what’s a pudenda?”

Totally agree. Going by this thread, some parents are encouraging it! Just awful. It beggars belief that this is what school girl attire has morphed into. Feel so so sorry for the girls that feel uncomfortable dressing like this but feel they have to because it’s expected. Social media and phones, vapes, school uniform.. we continue to let children down.

It's concerning how many parents think it's appropriate for teenage school girls to be roaming the streets, leaving nothing to the imagination.

Skirts resembling a belt alongside ill-fitting underwear resembling shoe laces or a fishing net.

I would certainly not want my kids attending the school. The head teacher isn't strong enough to lead the school.

I wasn’t the headteacher doing any measuring. No parents I ever heard of complained.

So ask your mum if her buttocks and pudenda were on display. I know what her answer will be.

Do you really think that dropping "fuck" in all the time somehow makes your post more powerful? It doesn't - it rather indicates that you think you'll be ignored if you don't swear all the time, which is somewhat immature.

So please have a little consideration for the rest of us who don't feel the need to swear and don't wish to read other posters doing so.

Seeing the gusset of someone’s tights is not appropriate for any setting, never mind a school

Plenty of girls in UK looks hideous. I am glad I have a boy, I would never let my daughter wear a skirt that short to school. Or anywhere else. It is unappropriate. The way teenage girls dress today it is often tasteless. Make up, nails, breasts out... You will be very unreasonable saying anything. I have seen a girl who's skirt barely covered her bottom. Do the parents not notice that? Is it normal to go to school like this now days??? In UK? Unbelievable!

Don’t be ridiculous. In all my years of education and employment I’ve never had to avert my eyes to avoid seeing a naked arse in front of me. That you think it’s acceptable says volumes.

This. It’s about 14 years since my own dc left secondary and I happened to go into a shop near their old school the other day. I was completely shocked by the bum cheeks hanging out and the view of knickers from the front. This has nothing to do with autonomy over choice of clothing and everything to do with pornography and child exploitation.
I fail to understand how schools and parents are allowing this to happen.

Yes my DS school had the pleated skirts only .

JFC. Do you know how much work teaching staff all the way from teaching assisant to headteacher have to do?

Rules are made for a good reason so stop wasting other people's valuable time and stop being THAT parent.