to think schoolgirls shouldn't wear short skirts?

[cruelladepoppins]

I mean really short, barely bum-covering, as I saw at our local senior school open day yesterday evening?

It was just indecent. Even with thick tights. Do the boys (and teachers) just look in another direction?

How do the girls run around, bend to pick something up etc?

I was talking to the mum of one of them, and she says she's dreading when they do their work experience this year, she just can't get her DD to understand a pelmet might not be appropriate for a workplace. They think it's OK because everyone wears them to school. I'm not kidding, I didn't see a single knee-length skirt, nor even a just-above-the-knee one.

I'm the mother of boys (oh-oh) - any mothers of girls out there care to defend the teeny-skirt idea?

Agree with PoorlyConstructed, yes school is also a social experience, in fact so much so that we moved dd from a girls school to a co-ed secondary so that she could socialise with boys and girls.
They have a strict uniform policy which I support because I support the school (but secretly wish dd could go to school in her favourite jeans, converse and tshirt, although I would never say that to her!

Stupid =/= Serious

I went braless rather a lot at school (and I have fairly enormous norks).

I got a scholarship to Oxford.

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This wins this discussion

Poorly - I do not want uniforms to be horrible.

I want 6th formers to wear smart formal business dress and the years under that to wear smart blazer, shirt, tie, trousers/skirt.

That, in my opinion, is horrible.

I like the uniform at our school. Shorts + Polo + logo'd Jumper. The exception is the bloody stupid knickerbockers in the winter for the boys. When we go home it will be shorts + polo for boys and girls. Comfortable/easy wear/easy washing clothes.

No wonder the country is in the mess it is in when young adults cannot be expected to dress appropriately for work.

You have to be taking the piss BeenBeta surely!?

You think the countries wrongs are down to UNIFORM!?

Oh seriously?? It's because of clothing?

I think we would find it very very easy to prove that choice of clothes has very little to do with aptitude, intelligence etc.

I did all the aforementioned silliness and still managed the boardroom just fine.

School kids aren't going to work. They're going to school.

In any case, 'work clothes' differs markedly depending on workplace. Jeans and a t-shirt are perfectly acceptable in my workplace, and plenty of serious scholarship goes on there.

And, definitionally, school kids aren't young adults. They're young people, but not adults (with the exception of some 6th formers).

I doubt the country's going to the dogs because some teenage girls wear short skirts.

Hmmmm. If you'd have asked me about 15-20 yrs ago then I think I'd have answered quite differently. Great memories of Rachel Brown in science....

Any twunt can wear a yellow silk tie and cufflinks, not everyone can think on their feet and problem solve. I look beyond appearances in work and I do with school kids as well.

DH is the same SGM.

One of the (younger) professors in my department often wears a short skirt. It doesn't seem to prevent her from working.

BeenBeta

If clothing is a sign of intelligent, you probably have a boob tube, hot pants and white stilletos on

As I think I have proved without a shadow of a doubt from the answers to my earlier post, it is the mothers' attitudes that drive the girls choices as to what they wear and how they wear it.

Believe me, what you wear has a huge impact on how people will perceive and treat your daughter in the world of work. Is she a serious professional or is her day job a bit of a laugh and a way of making some pocket money between nightclub jaunts?

I know it sounds severe but that is the world reality where jobs are hard to come by and no point in being all PC about it. Best you explain that to her in words she will understand because her boss (man or woman) will be thinking it.

Working in a university, you see proof every single day that what you wear has no impact upon your ability to think.

I have also been known to teach in a short skirt (pre-DS2 when I was thinner). It never seemed to bother anyone.