More boys in Skirt protest in UK

[sissybaby34]

Boys in the UK wear Skirts again to protest over the uniform policy which bans the from wearing shorts to school.

[Betty]

Awww. They look so sweet in their skirts.

School has been over for a month here. Summer school?

[sissybaby34]

School finished just this week, then we have a 6 week summer break and back in September.

[Bertha]

Boys in skirts aside, the main issue here is rule breaking. Here in the UK there have been a few days when the temperature has reached the high seventies, rare and never lasts long. The school doesn't permit boys to wear shorts and for 99.9% of the time they wouldn't want to anyway but a few warm days and four boys decide to protest by wearing skirts and gain media attention, but they know the rules and so do the parents. Every year when the kids go back to school, some fourteen year old turns up on the first day with a mohican haircut or similar, gets suspended and appears in the papers looking aggrieved along with a disgruntled parent. Why? They know the dress/appearance code and are deliberately flaunting it with parent collusion. These type of non-news items are a staple of the UK tabloid press and just encourage moronic behaviour.

[Betty]

100 years ago all boys were required to wear shorts as part of the uniform during warm weather. It was, even then, considered a health risk & a deterrent to education during those hot & humid days for the kids to uncomfortably or dangerously overheat. The instructors can have an option of a fan under or near their desk or instructional area they work in, but the students don't have the option to "plug in" something that would help. Most aren't even allowed a spray or water bottle to splash their skin with in class.

It can get dangerously humid in the UK for kids in some of those schools in warm weather.

Golly. You'd think it would be better to give the kids the peak of the summer off, even if it meant starting school in Aug.

They'd sure save a lot on AC/ventilation costs.

Surrounded by ocean, with the gulf is stream pumping heat & thick humidity in mid-July, some parts of the UK can be as rough as living in a swamp in S.E. Asia this time of the year. It's gotta be rough on the kids in many of the schools with no or little AC, or poor ventilation.

Unlike a century ago when they designed buildings to be cooler in summers or closed them down in summers, modern buildings are not designed with lots of strategically located north or cool breeze facing windows & ventilation. 100 years ago if a building or space was too uncomfortable in winter or summer, it was abandoned when it was uncomfortable, or modified to make it better.

 

[sissybaby34]

Betty, the school summer break has been this way for years. As for the peak of the summer, we tend to get better late July, August and September weather than we do for June/July.
       When it comes to wearing shorts, my whole first year (age 11/12) at senior school was in short trousers but that was the mid 60s . Now when they get to years 10/11 (6th form as we know it) most schools let them drop the uniform rules and lots will go to school in shorts or what ever they want wear. I don't understand why boys can't wear smart uniform shorts if they want too.