School brings in trousers only rule for all pupils - schoolgirls said to be in tears ...

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Schoolgirls have been left "in tears" after a controversial new uniform rule was enforced at the start of the school year, with furious parents claiming some pupils were stopped from attending lessons.

The row has erupted after Co-op Academies Trust introduced a trousers-only policy across its secondary schools from September.
Some families have refused to accept the change, with pupils at Co-op Academy Failsworth in Oldham arriving for their first day back on Wednesday wearing skirts.

Parents claim that a number of Year 11 girls were not allowed into class, with other pupils affected when they returned on Thursday.

The policy also applies at Co-op Academy Walkden, Co-op Academy Swinton, Co-op Academy North Manchester, Co-op Academy Manchester and Co-op Academy Belle Vue.

Full article https://www.aol.co.uk/articles/schoolgirls-tears-being-turned-away-100800000.html

And?
I have literally said my lived experience was different. As will some other girls. Just because your daughter didn’t leak, was always prepared throughout the month and had adequate protection, I can guarantee others won’t.

Theres actually a current TV advert for a sanitary towel that shows the monthly dilemma on “what to wear” in case you think I’m being dramatic.

Braces and big boobs do not work. The poor lass will just be picking the straps up off her arms all day.

And who sells this nonsense in secondary age sizes? Pinafores are primary school stuff.

No but you can give them choices, trousers or skirts it's really not hard

😂😂 you’ll run out of barriers soon.

Bit, surely they get too hot and faint? I'm often stepping over be-trousered girls on the street that have passed out....

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They wouldnt have to, a school would simply get a school supplier link and specify that as the uniform. Its not rocket science. You really have an obstruction to everything dont you

Cross over at the back

Anything else?

Well the kids have ruinedx their chance of a choice havent they. Keep causing problems with the current uniform, its going to change

I agree. I mean look at this…

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-49663689

I don't understand how periods are 'safer' in skirts. Black trousers where it won't show through are surely 'safer' then risking bleeding down your legs if you're in a skirt?

The grades at that school will leap up the charts now that teachers can focus on teaching and not on policing the crotch level of the girls' skirts. Just you wait and see.....😊

Skirts don’t help with heavy periods because you are sitting on your backside and they get covered

trousers are only worse for that if you have them tight and who needs right trousers - that would get hot and uncomfortable quickly although does show your bum off better

Absolutely, no way Im wearing a skirt with a period.

Well well well, what is this Ive found

https://thehalara.co.uk/products/Breezeful-Adjustable-Strap-Button-Multiple-Pockets-Flowy-Quick-Dry-Midi-Casual-Dress-24-950?pmui=24.1.product.Inseam.1&pmuih=breezeful-adjustable-straps-flowy-quick-dry-mini-casual-pinafore-dress-with-pockets-24-919&promo=Inseam_Midi.1&groupName=Midi

Girls usually like wearing trousers because they're warmer, and parents get to buy fewer clothes. Can't see an issue with that. Denial of skirts is hardly a human rights issue.

Anyway, skirts aren't just for girls, my son wears them all the time - so do a lot of cis guys. Clothing isn't gender.

I agree that boys should get far better consent education. Predators will sexually harass and assault girls no matter what they wear.

Objection your Honour. I'll give it 30 seconds............

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Some families have refused to accept the change, with pupils at Co-op Academy Failsworth in Oldham arriving for their first day back on Wednesday wearing skirts.

Parents claim that a number of Year 11 girls were not allowed into class, with other pupils affected when they returned on Thursday.

Please note: Year 11.

The school expects families whose daughters already have a skirt to buy brand new trousers for just one year. The parents have said "no, we aren't shelling out for that for one year" and sent their girls in wearing the existing skirts. The school have sent the girls home over a decision that isn't theirs. No wonder the girls are in tears: their education is being disrupted because of their parents' decision.

The school would have been far more reasonable if they had mandated the new uniform for the year seven intake (assuming that Manchester doesn't have middle schools) and allowed existing girls to wear out their current uniforms prior to replacing them with trousers. That's how my school managed a uniform change.

In year eleven, my plain, unlogoed, old-style uniform school sweater went into holes at the elbow and the holes kept getting bigger. My parents wouldn't and couldn't spring for a new school-logoed replacement and we weren't allowed a cheaper plain replacement, so I sewed patches onto the elbows out of the sturdiest fabric I could find in the scraps bag. The patches were a different colour from the sweater. If I had been sent home for the holes or the patches, I'd have been in tears too. Luckily, my teachers recognised that sometimes, a family can go through a period of being poor, and a child's resourcefulness under that circumstance should not be punished.

Why is modesty considered negative? Some places you need to dress modestly. Work and school are some of those places.

It is not a sex discrimination thing. Boys aren't allowed to show their pants either in low trousers. And in most secondary schools boys aren't allowed to wear shorts!

Since when has wearing trousers been traditional male behaviour?

Which is great if your school allows pinafores and has duck egg blue as the uniform colour.

I actually quite like that!!

wait for the list of barriers though.

but in all seriousness - school uniform shops could make this with a school badge and it would be comfy. School polo underneath then a blazer or cardi on top. Lots of options for different weathers. And of boys welcome to wear them too.

Girls roll up skirts at girls schools too. It’s because they usually come in a very unflattering length.
We did it at school too. I wouldn’t wear a knee length skirt back then and I wouldn’t now! And I’m not trying to attract anyone.

School trousers for girls never look nice. They are normally male trousers so very unflattering or if not they often are cut a bit too tight for most girls figures so they end up being stretched in the middle. It is very difficult to find well cut trousers unless you spend a lot of money on them.

personally aside from jeans I don’t often wear trousers. I find they dig in too much and I find them uncomfortable. I think I own about 1 pair of smart trousers. I am a skirt/dress person and so is my daughter. Her school gave all the girls the option of skirts or trousers and out of about 800 girls I reckon about 10 chose trousers.

I hate the fact that for hundreds of years women have been able to wear skirts and in the year 2026 we are being told that skirts are now immodest.