Do many schools make girls wear skirts nowadays??

[funnypeculiar]

Was browsing through our local state primary school's prospectus - they state that girls must wear skirts or pinafores - and trousers ONLY in extremely cold weather. Strikes me as a bit 'last century darling' ... and makes me a little nervous of their attitudes ... Is this not pretty usual nowadays??

Blimey.

Odd.

And just how do they define extremely cold?

when their knees go blue?

DD goes to a private prep school and it has a very strict uniform. Winter uniform is a pinafore. Summer uniform is a dress.

No cold problems as DD wears thick tights with her pinafore.

DD loves skirts and dresses; she'd not want to wear trousers even if she had the chance!

i make my dd - 12 - wear one 99% wear trousers

Why?

My old comp recently changed to let pupils wear trousers because male teachers were becoming so embarrased with the shortness of the girls skirts. Girls had campaigned for many years to allow trousers.
IMO this is a good idea, why cant girls not wear trousers when the boys do. All the girls wear the trousers as they felt they had won the battle so wore trousers and it saves a lot of embarrasment and keeps people warmer.

I don't think the "warness" arguement is that great TBH. Most of the school trousers are not that thick. Thick tights under a knee length skkirt is much warmer IMO.

The shortness thing however is a very real arguement, especially at secondary school!

looks nicer....got 4 boys

I guess I just wasn't expecting normal primary school to enforce a girls wear skirts/boys wear trousers rule - DS is, um, a boy, and DD only 10 mths ... and quite understand the desire from parents to put girls in a skirt, but wouldn't have expected that from a school anymore...

From what I have read on other threads, apparantly school uniform in state primary isn't actually enforceable for some reason. So I am not sure they can actually insist on it.

hulababy, I wasnt convinced at first about the warmnedd argument but my sister asures(sp!) me trousers are warmer. I think the fact she refused to wear thick tights is part of it!

I am only thinking of what I prefer really. I know that if I wear tights and skirts, it is warmer than my trousers - and my trousers are thickish ones.

If they won't wear tights, then yes - it'd be colder.

Yep, sounds old-fashioned. Also, at primary they can spend quite a bit of time sitting on the floor, quite often with some boy saying 'oooh I can see your knickers!'

Not terribly practical.

The girls have the better deal at DS's school - kilts and tights - the boys wear shorts and long socks year round! Boys and girls have waterproof trousers and wellies for playing outside, though.

unless its a private school - all private schools have fucked up uniforms IMO what they make those poor kids wear should be illegal

yes outdated

however i would chose the best education available rather than uniform
and if you have time and inclination you can jon the PTA and have a revolution

funnypeculiar - why would parents want to put girls in skirts ? Seriously I don't get it. They are impractical when tearing around and hark back to some old-fashioned notions of feminity. Hate em myself.

and boys pull your skirt up and bellow "I SAW YOUR KNICKERS" "SHES WEARING BLUE KNICKERS"

Well you're not allowed to wear trousers at dds' primary school - much to their annoyance! I wish they could, they both hate wearing tights and they are invariable halfway down their legs by the time they come home!!!

at those cheap black bootcut trousers girls wear to school

much prefer skirts

m and s thermal wool tights much cosier than vile shiny black polyester trousers

Yes but they also are costing me more money because they are not cheap to start with and they need replacing frequently because they come home full of holes! And our uniform's grey so no shiny black trousers would be required!!! Which btw I agree are hideous.

Ours (state but church) is skirts/pinafores only for girls - I have to say that at the start I thought this was odd and worried about the cold weather thing - but lots of people in RL have said that skirt + tights is warmer. I also think it looks smarter for some reason which I can't really explain...

I dont think I have ever had ripped tights

despite many mnay fallings over

m and s I say