Legal action against School due to the cost of School uniforms, Please advise

peachyprice

duchy wrote: »

Our local high school is skirts optional
Most of the girls wear trousers and the ones who wear skirts all have them ridiculously short and always seem to be the girls walking hand in hand with their also uniformed teenage boyfriends. I can see why the schools would ban skirts -they don't do the girls any favours as they become a fashion item (and I'm sure a battle at school over regulation length)

I have to say, the vast majority of girls at our school do wear their skirts at a decent length, they're supposed to be on the knee and I would say 95% of them are, they have someone on the gate every morning checking and teachers are pretty hot at enforcement throughout the day, it seems to have become a battle the majority of the girls have just given up on because they know they're not going to win.

We had girls visiting from another local school last week for their 6th form induction, OMG, they all looked like total slappers. It was embarrassing as a parent to see girls walking down the street like that, think school girl themed !!!!!!, that is what they looked like, they made our girls look like nuns. The head of that school really needs to take a better look at the image those girls are giving out, it's really quite tragic.

paulineb_2

In my day, we had to wear skirts even in the depths of mid winter, its a lot more relaxed now. We also had to wear a blue blouse (which got turfed for a white one as soon as you were about 15), pewter grey tights, again as you moved up the school, black tights were the norm and a black skirt. By the time I was in 4th year I was wearing a black skirt with black tights.

I rarely wear skirts now and I think being forced to wear one every single day for 6 years at high school and all through primary school has something to do with it.

I know theres an argument for uniform, but even in primary schools its more relaxed now, kids at my mums school can wear a polo shirt and the school sweatshirt, better than having to put on a tie every single day in life.

claire16c

I went to a girls school and we could wear whatever skirt we wanted as long as it was navy. But then after Id been there for a couple of years they brought in a skirt that everyone had to wear, that came in 2 lengths and had to be bought from them or various suppliers.

It was because otherwise girls were wearing skirts either up round their bums or trailing on the floor.

Of course with the new skirts we just rolled them up, and one friend who was about 4'11'' got the longer length skirt which was around her ankles and got told off for not having the regulation skirt until they realised actually she did!

We all moaned for ages about wanting trousers. Then brought them in when I was in yr 11, and I think 1 or 2 girls out of the entire school of 1200 wore them, as they were completely straight legged and just awful!

paulineb_2

Ive actually seen some girls in the street whose school shirts have been so short you can actually see the gusset on their tights. Not a lot shocks me but seriously, wearing a skirt so short you can almost see someones knickers?

Im sure friends of mine did wear short skirts at school, I didn't, wasn't my thing, but Ive seen few people with skirts that short as that girl Im referring to.

neverdespairgirl

My school was skirts only (all girls) and a quick look at that website shows that it still is, no trousers.

aliasojo

paulineb wrote: »

Ive actually seen some girls in the street whose school shirts have been so short you can actually see the gusset on their tights.

I realise this is completely irrelevant to the topic but I felt the need to share......I hate the word 'gusset'...*shudder*. :rotfl:

I think it reminds me of Mrs Slocombe type women in posh shops. I think that's a word they would say. A lot. I'm sure they would get it into each conversation at least once.

What can I say, I have quirks.

Troutwrestler

Cheaper than my daughters... £17 for a sweatshirt!!

paulineb_2

aliasojo wrote: »

I realise this is completely irrelevant to the topic but I felt the need to share......I hate the word 'gusset'...*shudder*. :rotfl:

I think it reminds me of Mrs Slocombe type women in posh shops. I think that's a word they would say. A lot. I'm sure they would get it into each conversation at least once.

What can I say, I have quirks.

Its not a word I use often, just couldnt think of any other word to describe the top of someones tights, the bit I never wanted to see in the first place.

Lmao, Im certainly not posh, Id fail every single posh test going.

Now Im trying to think of words I dont like, am sure I'll remember in time.

Some people dont like the word moist, know a few people with an aversion to that.

FatVonD

aliasojo wrote: »

you wont be seeing a lad turning up in trousers halfway up his bum.

Half way down his bum more like!

Abbafan1972

Troutwrestler wrote: »

Cheaper than my daughters... £17 for a sweatshirt!!

From your other thread, it sounds like you can afford one for everyday of the week!