To think this is the cruellest DM sad face yet

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www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3227485/Mother-blasts-school-daughter-15-sent-home-slightly-larger-legs-trousers-tight-just-weeks-headmistress-banned-skirts.html

1. Mum bought trousers (from Next so must be ok )
2. School said were too tight
3. Mum said how can that be when her skinnier friends are wearing the exact same trousers and aren't in trouble.

What is the mum thinking. She's basically announcing to the country that her daughter's thighs are chunkier than her friends'.

How can it matter that someone else has identical trousers if they don't fit that child?

Am I missing something? Does this lady just not like her daughter?

a school with that Ofsted rating should be concerned about a few more things than tightness of trousers.

I was always for uniform and whilst I do like the smartness of my dc's uniforms, I find it hard to justify the cost and can imagine many families out there would find it difficult to go out and buy another pair of trousers because the plain black non jersey, non skin tight ones that they have already brought don't meet the heads requirements. As for blaming it on the male teachers, I think they should all walk out/strike, how dare she imply that they will be distracted. If a male teacher is distracted by a girl wearing close fitting trousers then he shouldn't really be teaching, I'm sure the teachers at the school aren't affected by what the girls wear at all.

Lol. Trentham has always been seen as quite a good school compared to the rest of them in Stoke!

Ballet you don't surely think it's acceptable for an adult to claim other adults in positions of trust are distracted by clothed children's bottoms. Teachers are adults and pupils children last time I checked.

Utterly disgusting statement. The HT should be sent back to 1974 with her male staff.

I hope the male teachers are equally horrified at being made out to be distracted by teenage girls bodies..

do girls really need to buy three sizes bigger so the material doesn't touch her legs and give a hint of a shape of her thighs

that head is a victim blaming bitch

I've not read the DM artcke just seen a FB link to the Local paper one.

I highly doubt that's what was said as the article originated from the sentinel who are renowned for misquoting or putting words in your mouth (happened to my dh once he went mad about it)

I have never got the 'tight clothes distract make teachers' . If I was a male teacher I would be offended that it was assumed that children in tight clothes effected my job.

However, our school banned tight skirts after a rash of girls being unable to sit down in their too tight skirts and 2 instances of them splitting.

I hate when parents run to a newspaper to resolve issues with their school.

That poor girl is a normal size and looks perfectly smart in those trousers.
Flippin' 'eck - the worlds gone mad. Mad I tell you!

The photo on or later cal paper website where she is stsnding up looks very different to the one on the link where she is sitting down & you can't see the trousers properly. They look more like skinny jeans when she's standing up.

The HT is crazy if that is actually what she said and has no business teaching teenage girls. I can certainly believe that she's been misquoted though.

I don't think it's sexist to say that tight fit trousers aren't ok at secondary school, but then it all comes down to what you think a school uniform is for.

The girl looks a very nice normal size to me, she just might need slightly larger sized trousers to meet the school's criteria.

My issue is with the mother and her lack of logic and concern for her daughter's privacy.

m.stokesentinel.co.uk/photos/article/27760085

Not sure if this will work as the mobile site is rubbish but it's the third set if photos.

jesus, maybe they should make all the girl children wear muumuus so they are less tempting to the teachers

I have no problem banning tight trousers. No leggings/skinny jeans etc is a reasonable uniform policy. But it's outrageous to say children shouldn't distract their male teachers by wearing revealing clothing.

Absolutely awful. Has the head apologised for that wording?!

I've done a bit of r search. Nowhere does it say the head said that. There is a quote about it not bring pleasant for male staff when girls skirts are so short they "just cover their bottoms" & they are sitting down or walking upstairs.

Their is also a quote from a male pupil at the school saying "I've seen more modest belts....you don't want to be seeing that when you're walking around school.... It distracts me

My dh is a teacher & feels very uncomfortable at times not because he's a perve or because he finds young girls attractive, but because he feels it's wrong for underwear to be in show & is apprehensive about potential accusations.

He is not a teacher at that school or even I. That area by the way

Those trousers are not appropriate and her mother is an idiot for not taking onboard that tight trousers are not applicable as per the uniform rules. They look
Skintight.

slightly better picture in the mirror They look like normal school trousers to me.

Their is also a quote from a male pupil at the school saying "I've seen more modest belts....you don't want to be seeing that when you're walking around school.... It distracts me

How kind of them to consult a male pupil for his views on his fellow pupils' attire. Crucial information there, I'm sure we're all richer for having had it shared with us. And good for him to have it confirmed to him that his opinion on female colleagues' dress is in any way relevant to anything.

Me too Hama
Normal school trousers. Nothing wrong with them.

I don't get what the problem is, they look like normal trousers to me

They look like normal school trousers to me too.

If I were a male teacher at that school I would be looking for another job. I couldn't stay somewhere where I was being accused of being a pervert all the time. That HT has issues imo.

In response to comments (mainly below the line on the DM) about why can't she buy a bigger pair of trousers - a size up on the waist would probably be too large and may well not add that much to the circumference of the leg. Those trousers fit fine, she just happens to have some sodding thigh muscles.

Hellocampers: If the male teachers can't cope seeing a teenage girls arse in tight trousers they need sacking. Twats.

True. However, I suspect this is not the case. A male friend of mine works in a 6th Form (with no uniform) and says the students turn up in all sorts of outfits. He gets amused by the regular rash of "school girls are too sexy and how will the teachers cope?" stories. He says you don't bat an eyelid and get on with your job.

The biggest issue the HT has is that this used to be THE school to go to within the city, but it's had several bad years, slipped into SM and the results do not reflect what people think they should get for what they pay to live in Trentham (relatively speaking).

Also, she'd be well advised to stop speaking to The Sentinel, she must surely have realised by now that they will twist what she says, and flog it all to The Mail - she wasn't the source of the quote, and she didn't imply male teachers were pervs, that's just the delightful standard of the editor of the local paper, who'll happily supply a quote if it doesn't look like the story is adequately outrageous.