Hot weather and tights and school uniform

As DD left her Private Secondary last year this rule was coming in. There was a trousers option too

Zombie thread!! Lucky some days to be above 25F this week, never mind 25C.

For younger girls, socks are much more economical than tights. Skinned knees grow back; tights stay ruined. At my secondary school, we would wear knee socks as long as possible into the winter to show how tough we are.

when it cold i think all pupils should wear trousers not skirts or dresses unless the girls are wearing tights

if is hot make girls wear socks if it is not hot make girls wear tights

Opaque black tights are compulsory at my DC's school for any girl in a skirt. They're also fixated on checking that black socks with trousers are not too short - we had an email from the Head stating that socks and trousers must meet.

You'd think they'd be more concerned with the declining results than the chance that an ankle might be glimpsed!

They can wear ankle socks at dd's school. Dd insists on wearing cycling shorts under her skirt with them unfortunately

DDs all girl indy allows socks all year round, navy in winter and white ankle in summer. An awful lot of the girls wear them too - mostly trainer sock.
Blazers are uniform all-year round, and permission has to be given in each class to remove them, but DD has never complained of it being an issue. TBH she carries so much stuff in her blazer pockets it's a real pain on mufti days trying to find safe places to put it all, so she finds it useful to have all the time any way.

Dd iscallowed knee length socks at her school.

The school ds goes to the girls have to wear tights all year round.

Ds is allowed knee length socks.

At my school the Head decides whether students may remove their blazers on a daily basis.
Everyone hangs around the notice board on hot days waiting for the laminated sign to pinned up with a flourish by the head's p.a.
Once, he changed his mind halfway through the morning and caused chaos by deciding that it wasn't as hot as the forecast so blazers had to go back on.
Control freak? Micro manager? He also spends time looking in bins to see if staff have mixed up recycling.
Hilarious. Not.

I think decent thin tights can feel. Enter than sweaty legs!

Although local school to us has banned rights below 40 denier and personally I only wear thick super soft tights!

We also have a sensible school who allows pupils to remove blazer and tie in this weather - some tell kids to wear PE kit.
PE kit is worse imo. Think T-shirts and nylon shorts!

My DD got around the short skirt issue by wearing shorts underneath as did most of the school

See at my place salty a properly fitting skirt isn't too short on 90% of girls.

What does make them too short is rolling them or, the new way around rolling, girls buying them in the sizes smaller so they fit high on their waist (the skirts are tailored to fit at the top of the hip) so they are stupidly short but can't 'technically' be told to roll their skirt down.
All that means I have more phone calls to make.

The reason the girls choose to wear tights is not because they're embarrassed by their bare legs - it's because their skirts are so short they're worried about flashing their knickers.

And that will probably be why your school insists on them.

DD does not roll her skirt up. And yet it is still too short for her due to it just plain not fitting very well.

I was reading up on DDs prospectus the other day (she's Yr6).

They insist on blazers being worn in all weathers too and can't think how hot the students must be in them. They did say permission is granted though so hopefully someone is using their common sense.

Wearing tights in this weather too. Poor things.

No school I've worked in insists on tights.

Equally, every school I've worked in has allowed children to remove their blazer.

What happens more is that students insist on wearing tights, wearing tops under shirts, wearing the optional school jumper and then complaining about uniform and being hot! (Any student who is sensible in short sleeved shirt seems to be fine).

But hey, it's a bit warm and there's at least 3 "school, uniform and heat" threads si I'm just predicting that most of this week there'll be lots of them.

At DD's school they are allowed to wear plain white ankle socks between beginning of May and end Sep. Still have to wear their blazers

No uniform at all at my dc's secondary. Dresses or shorts must be no shorter than mid-thigh, no strappy tops, crop tops and no visible underwear. No backless sandals or flip flops.

Simple.

No summer uniform here at all. Ties also worn all year round.
The school skirt is a thick heavy pleated monster of a hot skirt too

Our can wear what they like under skirts. Blazers can be removed after Easter without asking teacher first. Academy (but with common sense).