Summer dresses ban from 2023

[citcatgirl45]

Does anyones elses primary school not encourage the wearing of gingham dresses?? Apparently from 2023 they will not be allowed at all but if you have them from previous years you are allowed to wear them. I love my DD in her checked dress, When I asked for a reason it is because they are not a gender neural item.

What? As long as the school permits a bit to wear a dress and a girl shorts then what's the problem? All it's doing is giving children choices of suitable uniform options. It's the school's 'problem' that they perceive a dress being only for a girl.

Boy not bit - duhhh

Really? What a shame. They are light, cooler, and easy to wear. What is the reasoning?

Of course they are a gender neutral item!

Boys can wear dresses, they don’t burst into flames if they do, the only thing stopping them is societal stereotypes.

Why are they taking a clothing option away just because some people with stereotyped ideas think it’s non gender neutral, rather than challenging the stereotypes?

(Incidentally the new RSE curriculum talks specifically about challenging stereotypes).

Bonkers. As long as anyone can wear a dress should be fine.

My DD school is now switching permanently to joggers (or PE shorts) for all children every day (I've posted about them changing for the summer term with 3 days notice, before).
ThIs is not for sex equality reasons but so they can be active in the regular school day not just on PE days.
DD really wants to wear dresses too. They are cool and comfortable.

Huh, really? Is this just your school or all schools? Why?! I assume girls can still wear skirts & pinafores.. what’s the difference?

My DD will pretty much only wear skirts & dresses at the moment. It’s not come from me, I rarely dress in skirts/dresses and as a younger child, she lived in leggings & jumpers and wasn’t bothered by things being girl/boy etc. I tried hard to keep things neutral. But since pre-school, shes become girly to the max 🙈😂 everything is pink & unicorns & barbie & clothes wise only skirts & dresses will do! I do sometimes battle her back into leggings if it’s not so warm!

Every single girl in my daughter’s class is in the dresses apart down one child who has a gingham play suit every so often. Looking around the school it is definitely the majority option at every age. In this sort of weather they are nice and cool, the zip ones are very easy for them to put on and off themselves etc. I’d be really pissed off if they were ever banned.

Ridiculous. So what are they meant to wear instead? Shorts? Like the boys? It's so wrong that " gender neutral" is often the same as "male".

I know a boy at primary school who wears skirts to school. He just likes them (he does have additional needs, so it doesn't even occur to him that others may see it as a "girls" item). I think it's a shame that schools are phasing out dresses and skirts and I certainly would have hated it as I didn't wear trousers to school until I was about 14.

I'm not sure how school pupils wearing a skirt is offensive to anyone.

Can you complain to the governors OP?

Why do primary kids have to wear gender neutral clothing?

What a complete and utter load of shite.

Is this a wind up? Ridiculous!!

What? That doesn't make any sense at all. As others have said they should just write into their policy that any child can wear a dress or shorts, then all the items of clothing are gender neutral 🤷‍♀️

It would be such a shame to ban them.

Ask them why it’s the ‘boys’ uniform that is the gender neutral option? Why not put them all in skirts? Why do the girls have to be the ones to change? Has anyone actually raised an issue with girls wearing dresses - has any parent or child actually complained that the girls shouldn’t wear dresses? WHY do they all need to wear ‘gender neutral’ clothes? Does it also include shoes? What are gender neutral shoes? Does it include underwear? Where can you get gender neutral underwear? Do they have to have gender neutral hair and coats? Can they still wear hair clips? Just keep asking questions until their heads explode!!!

Start a petition and if need be just ignore and continue to let your dd wear a skirt. Those dresses are so comfortable, I’d like one now!

So what is considered gender neutral clothing for school?

Ffs. I loathe enforcement of gender stereotypes. All uniform options should be available to all regardless of sex.

Ridiculous.

So they will ‘allow’ dresses as long as they are from previous years? Great. Continue to send your DC in the dresses. How on earth will they know when they were bought, by whom OR most importantly WHEN?

I would continue to send my child in a dress.

The dresses and play suits are light cool and quick. Be easier to open the option to boys than to ban it for the girls surely

Who is banning them? Just your school?
This would infuriate me and I don’t usually bother about little things like this.

And why the f**ck does my child have to be gender neutral?
She’s a girl, she’s proud to be a girl and I don’t want a significant part of her personality wiped out by other people’s woke bollocks.

I wish they’d just publish a uniform list and leave it up to children to decide what they want to pick from it.

Who really cares whether boys wear skirts? Why should gender neutral mean everyone wearing what have traditionally been ’boys clothes’?

Surely this can't be true. I would rather home school my child than agree to this rubbish

She’s a girl, she’s proud to be a girl and I don’t want a significant part of her personality wiped out by other people’s woke bollocks

Yy if a boy wore the dress everyone would be thrilled. If a girl.wears it all hell breaks lose.

The uniform should be practical for both sexes. Should just be a list of affordable practical items and all the kids just pick. Instead of making the girls feel shit cos they like the dresses and that's something to he ashamed of

@Smartiepants79

And why the f**ck does my child have to be gender neutral? She’s a girl, she’s proud to be a girl and I don’t want a significant part of her personality wiped out by other people’s woke bollocks.

This - absolutely