Length of school skirts

[KingTut]

I and my teen daughters are new to feminism and I wondered if I could talk through something?

My daughter refuses to wear a skirt as she can't stand all the length monitoring by staff at school. Dd said she would rather sweat in trousers. Then dd made the interesting comment, it's like they are blaming the girls for the boys not being able to cope if a skirt is above a knee.

It then brought us to the attitude of the Duggar family. The school are not much different really. So why do parents, staff and students say nothing about this skirt length issue? Is there something we are missing?

Ha ha ha. You think teachers have enough time to record every time a pupil is spoken to about uniform! You seriously have no idea....

Even things like break or lunch departmental or teacher detentions are probably only noted in the back of a teacher planner somewhere. I'm sure if a letter has to go home it will be on file somewhere but I'm not convinced.
Now whether boys are achieving the same results as girls etc - THAT will be recorded and analysed and commented on every year in INSETs along with strategies to resolve discrepancies etc...

And I have never heard "distracting boys" given as a reason for school uniform. Smartness, yes, appropriateness (eg not showing underwear of flesh) yes, h&s yes. Maybe an idiot teacher has said it off the top of their head sometime, but I would be extremely surprised if it was an official reason.

I'm stepping away now. I'm getting stupidly het up about this and I'm not even a teacher anymore! I left because I was working 40 hour weeks on a 50% timetable part time (so for £15k) and I STILL had more sodding form filling, and hand holding, and resource preparing, and planning and marking, and parents to phone, and bloody uniform. And they still keep adding to what should be covered in schools. MH monitoring, being an expert on every kind of SEN, liaising with parents when I taught 120 each year, ensuring good progress for EVERY student and having evidence for it. Marking in 3 different colour pens with next steps and extension work. FFs

And my prior career was in finance so I know how to work hard.

Sorry :(

Ha ha ha. You think teachers have enough time to record every time a pupil is spoken to about uniform! You seriously have no idea....

No but if letters are sent home then records have, by law, to be kept.

If the uniform rules are simplified to 'no underwear visible', the rebels will probably then go without. It's all about being seen by your peers to push boundaries and disrespect authority.

Sash a letter doesn't go home every time a child is spoken to about something ...
Barbarian what most pupils (and parents) forget is that desks face the front and are open - anyone stood/sat at the front can see .... Usually mobile phones!