Wearing shorts to primary school in this weather?

quinechinoise

JimmyTheWig wrote: »

Today is now the third time in a fortnight that I have seen a boy at our local primary school wearing shorts.

Surely it is too cold for a child to be wearing shorts in this weather?

I just wondered if anyone had any thoughts as to why someone might do this.

Maybe it's their school uniform? At the school my daughter attends, the younger boys (primary/pre-prep/junior age) all wear shorts. It was the same at my last school too - which was in Scotland, where it actually snows.

balletshoes

JimmyTheWig wrote: »

Today is now the third time in a fortnight that I have seen a boy at our local primary school wearing shorts.

Surely it is too cold for a child to be wearing shorts in this weather?

I just wondered if anyone had any thoughts as to why someone might do this.

Has it been cold where you are? Its been so mild here for the last week I've not had a coat on, so I personally would be okay seeing someone walk to school with shorts and socks on.

indebtinsussex

ds would wear shorts if he could get away with it, therefore they've been hidden away until it warms up again!

balletshoes

JimmyTheWig wrote: »

Normal sock-length. I.e. not enough to keep your legs warm!


Probably wasn't clear in my post that it was three different children I have seen, rather than the same child three times.


All good points made, though. Thanks.

it sounds like its the school uniform then - and its still not cold enough (in my opinion) to make everyone wear trousers instead of shorts and socks.

meer53

It's not cold here, plus kids tend not to feel the cold like adults do.

LannieDuck

Shorts were mandatory for boys at my OH's school regardless of the weather. He used to wear trousers to walk to school and change just before he got to the school gates (although technically this wasn't allowed, and he would have got into trouble if anyone saw him).

Moomum

My son wears shorts all year round and will do till secondary school. He doesn't felt the cold at all, today he has a thin shirt and a blazer on and shorts and was warm as anything on way to school at 7 am. Maybe he is warm blooded ;-p

ciderwithrosie_2

Gloomendoom wrote: »

I wore shorts every day of my life until I was about twelve, rain or shine, summer or winter. I don't think I owned a pair of long trousers and neither did my peers. We survived!

That's why the OH jokes about having more pairs of shorts than long trousers because his mum never bought him full length ones until he went to secondary school, he never knew any different. Kids are tougher than they look!

dingdongavoncalling

As others have said maybe he doesn't feel the cold and prefers the shorts.

Maybe his trousers got dirty so he had to wear shorts.

Maybe he hasn't got any trousers.

JimmyTheWig

dingdongavoncalling wrote: »

Maybe his trousers got dirty so he had to wear shorts.

Well I wondered that.
Obviously in that case the shorts would be valid school uniform, but I think I'd send my child in tracksuit bottoms or something (with a note to their teacher to explain) rather than shorts.