It's like a pincer attack

[Charliethefeminist]

boys who are distracted by knee length skirts and opaque tights need to sit the fuck back

Men in our spaces
Men policing our clothes

Men silencing our objections
Men trying to criminalise self defence

LEAVE WOMEN AND GIRLS ALONE

bloody hell

doesn't look like the school are going to back down either

punishing girls for turning into women

nice

Maybe burkhas would do the trick?

This is outrageous. I'm raging. Two girls have their confidence destroyed by their school for having dared go through puberty and developed womanly bodies. Now the poor humiliated girls feel "fat" - a totally predictable outcome.

Things are actively getting worse for women. It's very concerning.

Hounsdown School’s headteacher Julie Turvey and deputy David Veal.

Are the people responsible for calling teenage girls inappropriate for existing while female.

Maybe burkhas would do the trick?

I think it's becoming clearee every single day that girls are no longer welcome in schools. They are nothing but distractions, even regulation clothes are all "wrong" boys are let off everything they do to them. And even periods need medicating so they don't go all female on the teachers arse and need the fucking toilet.

If it wasn't for the fact that many pull their grade averages up and if they didn't have a girl to shove between the boys who would kill eachother on contact they'd be fucked I expect they'd have banned them a long time ago

They look very smart and parents if you are reading , what smart well presented young ladies you have. And well done for having their backs!!

Upstart has it with Fucknuggeting cockwombles.

If you're that worried, Mr. Veal, how about teaching the boys to stop perving? (And maybe have a think about your own motives while you're at it...)

They look very smart and parents if you are reading , what smart well presented young ladies you have. And well done for having their backs!!

Seconding this!

I'm furious on behalf of these girls.

Isn't this EXACTLY the kind of crap to make girls hate their perfectly normal developing bodies? And where might that lead, one wonders?

Fgs, I couldn't believe what I was reading there.

Those poor girls, being isolated, and humiliated for what? Being rude? Agressive? No, for owning female bodies.

That deputy is an absolute tosser! Going shopping for skirts, making the girls try on skirts for their teachers? It's as though he thinks he owns them.

Thank god the parents stood up for them but I wish they could have shoved the 'special lamented skirt ruler' where the sun don't shine.

That is outrageous. The only problem in this story is that head teacher paying way too much attention to those girls bodies. Seriously he should not be in that job.

Where is the headteacher in all of this?

The school is in my area.

I can't actually see anywhere in the letter where it says the skirts were 'distracting' just that they didn't meet uniform requirements?

Their webpage says they have guidelines on uniform, though I can't see them so they may be in their planners or somewhere else.
These girls are 'normal' teenagers. They aren't massively overweight or anything. I don't see how all the other girls are finding skirts that meet requirements and not these two.

My guess is that there is something in the guidelines (e.g. not figure hugging, and no more than x inches above the knee) that the girls aren't meeting.

Personally I think they look fine, but I suspect there is more to this than the DM has reported.

I should imagine the school were very careful when drafting the letter not to make any specific statements like that, in order to avoid being held to account for it. It's easy just to refer to uniform guidelines and not to refer to what was said verbally to the students/parents. It's easy to deny that was what was said, to claim misunderstanding.

No wonder our society is becoming an idiocracy if this is the level of intelligence in school teachers:

-mental health is at an all time low, especially amongst teenage girls
-girls are under constant scrutiny
-girls are constantly made to feel they're not good enough
-girls are struggling in a highly sexualised society that ignores their feelings
-girls are responsible for the behaviour of boys

Teachers should be supporting them to transcend this, not adding to the bloody problem!

If it isn't stupidity it's something much worse.

I have to question the recall of any student/parent who is willing for their y10 to miss so much school just to make a point about uniform though, when
a) complaint is about what someone reportedly said
b) other students are clearly managing to comply (and these girls do not have an unusual body shape)

Surely it would be better to comply with rules and take up the complaint in parallel?

The girls look fine!
Honi soit qui mal y pense

When school officials try to police girls bodies, my protection instincts instantly group those officials in the same category as I would group a suspected pedophile. There is just something so unbelievably creepy about this behavior.

Jesus fucking Christ. They just look like girls.

I'm not a fan of school uniforms at the best of times but all this nitpicking - and it's almost always girls, and almost always sexist - drives me up the wall. They'll be at work soon enough with all the endless crap that entails.

They have tried to comply! And are being told that none of the actual uniform skirts are suitable. The chosen pleated monstrosity is a joke and is also see through! What are they actually supposed to wear?

Yes, they're doing their GCSEs but the school has potentially done horrendous damage to their self esteem and confidence. The parents are in a really difficult position here.

It says the teachers went with them to try on skirts and the girls were embarrassed to be standing in their underwear in front of them?! Can that be true? Even dodgier, if so 😳

Please tweet the school to protest this, they're active on Twitter.

Distracting? Then the simple answer is not to look. Someone in the classroom has to sit by a window....that might be distracting, too. The "trick" is to concentrate on the lesson and not be distracted. Not brick up the window.

He is teaching the boys that it is OK to sexualise girls - and that the answer is for the GIRLS to modify their behaviour, not the boys. Twat. No wonder there are countries where women are denied an education and have to spend their lives in extremely "modest" clothing.

I hope he gets fired.

Can I just say that when I opened the link right above the comments were schoolgirl cosplay outfit advertisements from Amazon.

Doesn’t that just sum this up? The sexualization of girls and women whatever we wear? The male gaze on girls just trying to get dressed and get an education?

Totally besides the point but those monstrosity skirts were standard uniform at my DDs' school. They were highly impractical as well as making everyone look hideous. Pretty sure the boys still got distracted anyway, what with being teenage boys and all.

Some people won't be happy until all females are wearing nuns' habits and veils, lest they provide too much temptation for the poor males. Or maybe girls should just stay at home learning to cook and sew in preparation for being good little wives and forget education altogether.

I am incensed at this. Those poor girls and being told they are too curvy when they have perfectly normal looking bodies. They are basically going to start thinking they are fat, which they clearly aren't. Nice way to start an eating disorder in someone. Outrageous.