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

[GreenSalon]

Weekly newsletter today from DC’s secondary school contained a paragraph on uniform including the fact that there have been complaints from the public about “pupils who choose to wear skirts” rolling them up to wear them extremely short. It finishes with asking parents to speak to their children about why this is “not a good idea”.

Now, apart from the fact I assume that they must mean girls, is this not clearly implying that short skirts = making themselves vulnerable and if is, then if anything bad happens as a result it is their own fault? I thought we had moved beyond this kind of nonsense.

I only have boys at the school not girls but want to write to the head to point out how utterly sexist this is. DH agrees with me pov but thinks I shouldn’t write. AIBU?

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

'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.

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.

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!

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

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

Wide pleated skirts ... cant be rolled up

Bet they can…

They definitely can 😂

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

JFC. Do you know how much work teaching staff all the way from teaching assisant to headteacher have to do?

Rules are made for a good reason so stop wasting other people's valuable time and stop being THAT parent.

Yes my DS school had the pleated skirts only .

This. It’s about 14 years since my own dc left secondary and I happened to go into a shop near their old school the other day. I was completely shocked by the bum cheeks hanging out and the view of knickers from the front. This has nothing to do with autonomy over choice of clothing and everything to do with pornography and child exploitation.
I fail to understand how schools and parents are allowing this to happen.

Don’t be ridiculous. In all my years of education and employment I’ve never had to avert my eyes to avoid seeing a naked arse in front of me. That you think it’s acceptable says volumes.

Plenty of girls in UK looks hideous. I am glad I have a boy, I would never let my daughter wear a skirt that short to school. Or anywhere else. It is unappropriate. The way teenage girls dress today it is often tasteless. Make up, nails, breasts out... You will be very unreasonable saying anything. I have seen a girl who's skirt barely covered her bottom. Do the parents not notice that? Is it normal to go to school like this now days??? In UK? Unbelievable!

Seeing the gusset of someone’s tights is not appropriate for any setting, never mind a school

Do you really think that dropping "fuck" in all the time somehow makes your post more powerful? It doesn't - it rather indicates that you think you'll be ignored if you don't swear all the time, which is somewhat immature.

So please have a little consideration for the rest of us who don't feel the need to swear and don't wish to read other posters doing so.

So ask your mum if her buttocks and pudenda were on display. I know what her answer will be.

I wasn’t the headteacher doing any measuring. No parents I ever heard of complained.

It's concerning how many parents think it's appropriate for teenage school girls to be roaming the streets, leaving nothing to the imagination.

Skirts resembling a belt alongside ill-fitting underwear resembling shoe laces or a fishing net.

I would certainly not want my kids attending the school. The head teacher isn't strong enough to lead the school.