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Girls will be boys, and boys will be girls
Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2016 12:11 am
by Gob
Four teenage boys have worn skirts to school in protest at being disciplined for wearing shorts on the hottest day.
The year nine students at Longhill High School in Rottingdean, East Sussex, were among about 20 boys who wore PE shorts instead of trousers on Tuesday.
Some were sent home, and others kept in isolation and excluded the next day.
When the four boys turned up in school skirts on Thursday, head teacher Kate Williams said they could "wear any part of the agreed school uniform".
The mother of 14-year-old Michael Parker, who was one of the group, said three of the boys were initially told to remove the skirts, but all four of them kept them on.
Angela Parker said they wore them to school again earlier, and were joined by a further 10 boys.
The PE shorts worn by the boys on Tuesday were an official part of the uniform, bearing the school logo.
Re: Girls will be boys, and boys will be girls
Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2016 1:26 am
by Scooter
I have never understood the insistence in having schoolchildren swelter in long pants in hot weather. The Catholic high school I attended did not even allow us to arrive at school in shorts and change into our uniform pants when we got there, and some students (me included) walked half an hour or more getting there. Similar thing for the girls in winter - they couldn't wear tights under their kilts walking to school in freezing weather, only uniform knee socks. It was like their version of Catholic self-flagellation.
Re: Girls will be boys, and boys will be girls
Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2016 2:42 am
by Guinevere
Good for them. I never wear slacks in this heat - skirts and dresses only, soooooo much cooler!
Re: Girls will be boys, and boys will be girls
Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2016 2:50 am
by MGMcAnick
A local manufacturing plant that employs over 5000 people had a no shorts rule several years ago. The factory floor often hits over 43ºC/110ºF. (It was 103ºF here today.) There are fans, but no AC. Skirts were OK for women, but not shorts. Several dozen men plotted to wear skirts one morning. It made the TV news. By the next week, the union got involved. Shorts were OK'd "shortly" after that. AFAIK, they still are.
Girls will be boys, and boys will be girls...
Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2016 5:05 am
by RayThom
... except for Lola.
Twelve years of catholic education and every day I had to wear long pants, blazer, and tie. If the summer swelter became too much to bear we were sometimes allowed to remove our jackets and loosen our ties.
BTW -- none of the schools I attended were air-conditioned, nor were we ever sent home early due to extreme heat. On the hottest days we were told to put up with the hardship as a personal sacrifice and chalk it up as a works of mercy.
Thank you Archdiocese of Philadelphia for making me what I am today.