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

This is the problem. Head teachers don't want to deal with the backlash.

They definitely can 😂

Bet they can…

Wide pleated skirts ... cant be rolled up

I honestly think some parents like their DD’s having their arses on show.😞

I’ve asked our head to change it to trousers for all. She won’t because apparently ‘parents will complain!’

Male teachers shouldn’t have to be made to feel uncomfortable, plus female teachers and pupils of both sexes probably feel the same, having sights like that thrust in their faces!

Sont be ridiculous. Anybody on stairs below somebody with a skirt no longer than their pants is going to get a view they don’t want.

'It really isn't the most pleasant sight to see the buttocks of young girls, especially when on duty and monitoring going upstairs behaviour, which I can imagine for male teachers is even more uncomfortable'

I manage to walk upstairs without staring at the arse of the person in front why can't you? If male staff feel 'uncomfortable' around young girls they should seek alternative employment.

Vouch for them?
That makes no sense. Anyway, teachers aren't at school, they're at work.

True, but I bet they'd have done it if they thought they could get away with it.

https://www.thesun.ie/fabulous/5893731/naked-gym-shorts-echt-new-active-wear-trend-influencers-instagram/

The skirts although short were longer then. They were not displaying buttocks,

There seems to be a trend for sprayed on clothing that’s flesh coloured and very form fitting so as to look nude. Hard for anyone not to see that! Like the school girls it’s like a form of defiance.

This isn't exactly a new phenomenon: my Mum and her mates were doing exactly the same thing in the 60s. It's teenagers seeing how far they can push the limits. They did it in the days of the ancient Greeks, and they'll probably still be doing it in colonies on other planets, if we ever get there.

Girls/women SHOULD be able to wear whatever they want and be safe, BUT sadly we can not!
it is never a woman’s fault if she is attacked, however let’s be honest this isn’t an ideal world and women do have to avoid putting ourselves at risk.
What I mean by that…. Is in an ‘ideal world’ we should be able to walk around naked at 2am, alone, through a poorly lit park…. BUT we know and appreciate that doing that would put us in danger, so therefore we wouldn’t do it!
We as women sadly do still and likely will forever more need to adjust our behaviours to keep ourself safe - safe from men!

I believe it's called the 'baddie culture'.

Wearing underwear that resembles shoe laces.

Please believe me, as a teacher, this is an appeal for parental support. We know they leave your house before rolling it up, then we intervene, then they roll it up again on way to next lesson.

It really isn't the most pleasant sight to see the buttocks of young girls, especially when on duty and monitoring going upstairs behaviour, which I can imagine for male teachers is even more uncomfortable.

One experience which made me feel particularly disgusted was a y8 student walking to school with her skirt extremely high, a white van passing and shouting obscenities and wolf whistles. I reported this to pastoral manager and she explained to her how this does in fact make her a possible object of vulnerability.

No need to analyse the wording, it's not sexist, it states the point. The only effect it will have is you will be an over reactive parent and precious time will have to be spent to re word as suitable for only you.

Do you really not have anything more important to focus your energy on?

Yep this!

I’d rather see tatts than arse cheeks.

Oh I’m concentrating on the road but when you’re crawling along in gridlock and they’re congregating alongside cars, running across the road etc it’s hard not to notice. The repetition about “arse cheeks” is because that is what is on show. It’s pretty unpleasant.I have a daughter and I wouldn’t subject all and sundry to her cheeks either. Thankfully I’ve raised her to have more self respect and thought for others.

As an aside if dress codes in school are so important I vouch for teachers to keep their ugly tatts covered.

Maybe concentrate on the road rather than young girl's skirts?

Dress codes are of course important. A skirt and tights should suffice. All the repetition about 'arse cheeks' on this thread is quite disturbing.

Anyone who thinks exposing your arse cheeks to the world is a feminist statement has drunk the proverbial Kool-aid.

All the young women are doing (although few realise it) is conforming to a the male gaze and pressures which have come from porno culture.

Fashion which is inspired by pornography isn't a feminist statement.

Boys don't usually expose their erogenous zones (the sag fashion tended to show unsavoury greying underpants rather than buttocks IME)...yet somehow, girls feel the pressure.

I cant see any arse there, ridiculous as it looks. Girls dressing like that would be a huge improvement on the current thong and arsecheeks fashion.