Girls only allowed to do handstands and cartwheels on the field IF they wear shorts under their dress

[CrackerOfNuts]

Is it me, or is that just barmy.

Both dd's have come home moaning as they like to try and do cartwheels and handstands on the field at lunch time. The dinnerladies have now said that unless they take in shorts to wear under their dresses, then they aren't allowed to do it because the boys will see their knickers.

From what Dd1 said, the majority of the boys are not even on the field, they are in the playground playing footie, so can't even see the girls letalone their knickers.

[cupsoftea]

ridculous to wear shorts under a skirt.

[edam]

Is the US really full of paedophiles with long-range lenses pointed at school playgrounds? And even if it was, how would your dd be harmed if someone a long way away took a photo of her fully clothed without her knowledge? Nasty, but not a direct threat to her.

[Flame]

This is horrible

One of DD's friends always wears shorts with a skirt, always has. I find it odd and sad tbh.

Children are children - mine are normally naked at weekends and frequently show knickers at school (care bear knickers were a dubious idea... her poor teacher )

[seeker]

I don't think you should campaign for shorts, but campaign for the banning of thongs.

[Flame]

Who buys thongs for yr 5 n 6 kids for school??

The only time I can see them being acceptable is for dancing (Psycho's girls didn't want no knickers under leotards for the shows, thongs were the only things that worked)

[BellaDonna79]

Simple, do as my prep school did and enforce regulation knickers. Delightful royal blue things they were. Worn over knickers from home they were that funny gymnastics leotard material...
At prize givings/concerts etc we had to lift our skirts/dresses up round our waists to ensure we were wearing the regulation panties!
But for PE we wore them with a tiny cropped top/sports bra thingy, pe included doing cross country around a local park which in retrospect would probably be a lot more exciting for any predatory wierdys lurking than 2 seconds of pink panties at a 1/4 mile distance.
Hatrick, where on God's earth do you get a thong to fit a 9 or 10 year old?!?! and more's the point what sort of parent lets their DD wear one at that age?

[LittleBella]

I would be horrified if my DD felt the need to be modest with her knickers.

I can only suppose it's about thongs. Otherwise the head too stupid to be explicable.

[emkana]

Funnily enough dd1, who is 7, has expressed this last week a wish to wear knee-length leggings under her school summer dress, because when the wind makes her dress fly up the boys in her class will tease her by shouting "we can see your knickers"

[emkana]

Just to add, I went out and got her the desired leggings, and she's wearing them every day.

[emkana]

Nobody forces my dd's to wear dresses, but that's all they want to wear.

[Hulababy]

I'd rather DD was forced to wear a school dress any day that have to put her into those vile articles that call themselves school troushers Not that DD is forced into dresses at all - even if not uniform it'd be what she chose to wear anyday over trousers or shorts!

[Anchovy]

LOL - we used to tuck our skirts into our knickers for better cartwheel action.

[serin]

Easter assembly,
Whole school gathered together,
There's DD1 age 10, sat at the front, facing the audience ready to do her reading, and myself and DH proud as anything watching.

....then she crosses her legs and spends the next 20 mins with her blue spotty knickers on show.

I'm crossing and uncrossing my legs like Sharon Stone and pointing to my fanjo and the headteacher is giving me really strange looks.

DD looked embarrassed by my behaviour but remained blissfully unaware of her own, and I swear that I honestly don't think another person in the whole room noticed, not even her dad.

Wearing shorts under dresses is not progress.

[Zazette]

'major problems with perverts taking photos of young children in public and trying to get pictures up their dresses and then posting on the internet'. Evidence please.

[twinsetandpearls]

Are you sure the teachers are insisting. My dd is wearing shorts under her dress for cartwheels and handstands at her request. I can remember doing the same.

[seeker]

I haven't heard of a state primary in this country that doesn't allow trousers, but a lot of younget girls in particular like wearing dresses, particularly in the heat.

I object very strongly to the idea that girls should be expected to dress in particular ways because of the effect their clothes may have on boys behaviour, or because of a hypothetical paedophile with a telephoto lens (really? I would need to be convinced)If girls internalize this message, it's only a short step from there to "she was wearing a short skirt - she was asking for it" - and we all know how pervasive that attitude was - and sadly is.

[Enid]

ours doesnt (state primary, no trousers for girls)

[Anna8888]

Shorts under dresses.

Thongs for five year olds.

Crikey .

My daughter wears Petit Bateau cotton pants with excellent bottom coverage. No worries about anything.