AIBU to think school skirt bans undermine choice rather than equality?

When was the last time you saw a nurse or traffic warden in a skirt? I don't even think an actual skirt is part of NHS nurses uniform? They have these tunic dresses but I've not seen one for decades.

You choose the school. When yoh do that you agree to follow the schools rules/ code for conduct / policies. If you dont like that schools uniform policy then pick a different school.

Ours (boys and girls) have a choice between shorts (tailored loose fitting), trousers (tailored no skinnies allowed) or a skort. Because all the kids in skirts were rolling them up to show off whatever they have underneath and it was upsetting the neighbors and making the school look like St. Trinian's. Now if they try they get an almighty wedgie, and nobody, girl or boy can show off their booty or their bulge with extra tight trousers or shorts. They look quite smart and all the trousers, shorts and skirts can be bought in a supermarket.

They probably could wear skirts if they wore them as they were supposed to be worn. But too many do not and roll them up.
So they don’t get to wear them anymore.

I always hated wearing school trousers - they never fit well. I still struggle with trousers - petite and skinny. My dd will be the same (starts school next year). I’ve always preferred skirts.

Perhaps if they didn't roll their skirts up so short that the whole world can see their undies they'd still have a choice to wear a skirt
I'm wearing my jeans today. I do not look like, nor am I trying to look like a man.

I think no uniform is the best option. It works well for most countries.

And blazers or jumpers? Weird expert level on how bags affect skirts there

Where on earth do you live that skirts are banned in schools but Nurses wear skirts? Or postal workers. The 50s?

They do have a choice. They can choose a school that permits skirts.

I actually find your own attitude very misogynistic linking skirts traditionally to women. Really?! This isn't the 1900s...

Everyone in trousers makes it straightforward.

Uniforms mean that kids are not competing on what they look like and therefore they can only compete based on their attitude, effort and personality, which are far more important than looks.

Ha ha ha ha

teenage girls would rather die than wear a coat!

and the rucksacks actually have the effect of pulling thr e skirts higher - the skirts sort of ‘walk’ up and are trapped by the bags

But OP is cross that trousers ARE being enforced.

And re. the pizza comparison, which is vegetarian, skirts or trousers?

I would guess it's to stop girls rolling their skirts up and /or to make the uniform more uniform as it were. School uniform is not there to promote free choice. Children can choose what to wear when at home.

The compromise is maxi skirts. They wear them at Rugby School (fee paying boarding school) and the girls seem to cope. Apparently they voted to keep them after there was some question over them. They are long grey and pleated, very smart.

Presumably female teachers don’t wear the school uniform

Skirts restrict girls' movement. In primary schools we see how girls' physical play is impacted by having to be "careful" about showing their knickers when they climb, do handstands or whatever. Lots of girls come to school in shoes which are wholly inappropriate for any kind of physical play, whether in early years free flow settings or primary play time.

Shorts or joggers with trainers allow girls to be playful rather than guarded.

I think it is because teachers are fed up of wasting time telling girls their skirts are too short. As you say it also bad the advantage of preventing up skirting. It seems like a good idea to me.

Trousers are a unisex item of clothing and a perfectly acceptable choice for a school uniform. I don’t see it as my right to wear a skirt, it takes nothing away from my sex. I don’t see it as any different from a school specifying a blazer, or a jumper.

Does that mean the female teachers at this school will also not be allowed to wear skirts OP?

Then why does it look like a red light district?

You must live in quite a special place, this just isn’t the case where I am and I don’t believe for a second there are hundreds of girls showing their knickers every day. Odd that non of them wear bags, coats, blazers etc, all of which would hide knickers even if the skirt is very short. Maybe keep your eyes on the road rather than knicker spotting

Maybe so they don't "choose" to come to school with arse cheeks in show.

They don’t look like prostitutes, they’re clearly school girls - and tbh there was less underwear on show when we had a red light district.

But there are certainly hundreds of girls who walk past with their underwear on show every day. That’s not an exaggeration. I’d video it and upload it to prove my point, but I that wouldn’t be acceptable behaviour.

I’m normally driving past in my car so at a closer height to their waists than if I was walking, but it is actually genuinely shocking how many knickers you can see.

The op herself has omitted one of the reasons that are alluded to as to why trousers are not being enforced for girls.

The same reason that my sons Hawaiian pizza only has pineapple on it !

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes - choice is taken away