School bans skirts from uniform

[roisin]

I approve of this news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/6712981.stm

At our school girls wear skirts so short you can see their knickers when they are sitting down, or walking upstairs infront of you.

Yes all very good points and taken on board.

Mind you I went to an all girls school and contrary to popular belief we werent lezzers. Still all hoiked our skirts up though?

I do think MaisyM makes a good point about trousers and periods actually.

I have no strong views on shorts, but otherwise agree with all Enid has to say on the uniform issue.

I assume ridiculously short skirts must be an issue for the school otherwise they wouldn't have bothered. Fair enough. I'd trust 'em.

At least they've scrapped stoopid ties. Pink and white blouse sounds dodgy though.

At my local high school, the uniform is 'black and white', no further restrictions than that. And they all look very smart.

Enid, do you not think your opinions are coloured by not having been at a co-ed school?

possibly - I am not a robot! I am the sum of my experiences after all.

Do you think girls from mixed sex schools would welcome this then?

I don't think girls would welcome this, no

The only single sex setting I've been in is halls of residence at Uni, and shared house at Uni ... so I can only imagine the differences.

But at our school on some days you can almost see the hormones flying around they are so thick in the air!

They should follow the example of dd1's school and make the girls wear mid-calf length kilts. The girls roll them up a couple of inches to just below the knee and think they're being so, so rebellious.

Or the school most of her former primary school friends go to, where the mid-calf length tartan kilts have to be accessorised with white (that's white, not cream) knee socks. Rolling socks down to ankles constitutes major rebellion. Double

re the ties. dc's school has elastic ties for the younger ones, and they move onto the proper ties as and when they want to.
i think polo shirts for schools are way too casual.
i would prefer a blazer with shirt, at least in the winter, (dont get me started on english schools and their lack of proper facilities for the heat)
school is like a work place. a certain smartness of dress looks good.

i never wore a skirt for school.

trousers were much better for running out of the back door to skive the day

cyclonbabe, how often in your life have you had to tie a tie (apart from school uniform matters)?

are you a woman?

ties schmies

I think I wore one once when I was nine

It was an 'air hostess' dressing up competition and I went as Quantas

complete with silver foil kangaroo badge and white gloves

ties is perverse

I have to laugh at some of these comments.

Jackets and ties getting them ready for the workplace. How many successful business women wear ties to work???

I think polo shirts for schools are way too casual. Too casual for what exactly?

The boys wear the ties - it's a boy's school. My tie when I was little I don't think really helped me but the concept of dressing up for work in the office etc, formality, rigidity, rules etc uniforms play a part like that. In a sense school is conditioning, into what is expected in our culture and in the workplace. The opposite of freedom.

LIKE xenia says
i have never had to tie a tie other than the kids school and i am not in the least bit btohered about it.
i think polo shirts are too casual for school.
i think ties make the uniform look smarter and aid in the idea for dressing up to go to work.

square

lolbut not a bodenite

what, squarer?!

nowadays everyone seems to confuse uniform with discipline.
it's weird if you ask me

i wouldn't like my daughter to wear a skirt and she doesn't.

i don't like the peer pressure there are in lots of comps that girls look like slags at 14.

in my control i have skirt or trousers. and this means my 14 yo doesn't have the option of making her skirt shorter.

It's not really nowadays. It's how we always were bar a short period in the 1960s and 1970s when state schools and some private ditched the uniforms entirely.

Uniform at some state schools has become a disguished means of keeping poor children out too. Interesting issue.

xenia, how? ive always felt that uniform was cheaper to buy than other clothes, and so a uniform means everyone gets to look similar, despite paypacket of parents.

What I want to know is, do girls still alter their skirts (by actual sewing) to make them more fashionable?
Our school had A line skirts and everyone used to take them in to make them straight. Much easier to do that with skirts than trousers, so if skirts aren't allowed how can they customise them?
On the other hand maybe no-one can sew enough any more?