Short school skirts

I don't know. But in Germany there is so much violence in a lot of public schools , that I would prefer to send my kids to a private school, if I could afford it. Our politicians mostly do it!
yes ours do too.. but there's as much bullying going on in public schools ( which is what we call fee paying schools).. as there is in Comprehensive school if not more. Often by sadistic teachers, as well as pupils.. and also if the children are boarding there's no escape at 4pm... or weekends....even being Royal doesn't stop it happening. Prince Charles said he was routinely bullied at school, and would cry himself to sleep as a child..
 
what on earth are you talking about ?...My friends and I rolled up our skirts at school we were 13 or 14 years old..none of us had a boyfriend much less be obsesses with sex... it was simply a fashion statement for us, absolutely nothing more!! Mentally unstable ?.. I think we can tell who is mentally unstable and it's not little schoolgirls..
I second this. It was fashionable and either the girls nor the boys were obsessed with sex at that age.
 
yes ours do too.. but there's as much bullying going on in public schools ( which is what we call fee paying schools).. as there is in Comprehensive school if not more. Often by sadistic teachers, as well as pupils.. and also if the children are boarding there's no escape at 4pm... or weekends....even being Royal doesn't stop it happening. Prince Charles said he was routinely bullied at school, and would cry himself to sleep as a child..
Yes Holly, I've read this. The two boys of Diana and Charles had the same problems. Even one of the sons of the former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl once told during an interview that his classmates took his head and pushed it into a toilet bowl. Did you know that a son of our former German President Richard von WeizsƤcker committed suicide while being at a boarding school? But I must mention that it was the at that time still famous "Odenwaldschule".
"The school went bankrupt and was closed in 2015, following the revelation of numerous cases of sexual abuse of students." (Wikipedia)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odenwaldschule
 
If it were my daughter, I too would have an issue if she were told to line up while a group of male teachers inspected the length of her skirt! It surely cannot be beyond the wit of the teachers to realise it is inappropriate to task male teachers to carry out the inspection. At school, our skirt lengths were checked by two female teachers in a classroom which, I think, is a more sensible approach. In my opinion, the best way to teach children respect is to treat them with respect.
 
Oh, the memories this brought back to me. I went to Catholic school and the Nuns would make us kneel on the floor to make sure our uniform bottom touched the floor. The uniforms also had belts on them. What the nun didn't know was when we left school to go home we would pull our uniforms under the belt to make them shorter. My uniform was dark blue.
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At school, our skirt lengths were checked by two female teachers in a classroom which, I think, is a more sensible approach.
I agree. When I got in trouble for too short of dress I was sent to the female counselor (who told me it was fine) (but she didn't see me scramble over the bench at the lunch table, ha ha).
 
what on earth are you talking about ?...My friends and I rolled up our skirts at school we were 13 or 14 years old..none of us had a boyfriend much less be obsessed with sex... it was simply a fashion statement for us, absolutely nothing more!! Mentally unstable ?.. I think we can tell who is mentally unstable and it's not little schoolgirls..
Exactly true for my friends and me, too. Every word.
 
The New York Post is generally considered to be a sensationalist tabloid that leans heavily to the right.

Some teachers might be deciding against teaching Shakespeare, but it's hardly widespread.

My opinion: Good teachers explain the cultural contexts when Shakespeare, Mark Twain, John Steinbeck and other authors were alive. Poor/lazy teachers cheat their students by skipping these seminal works.
 
I agree. This isn't new. When I was at school in the 60's it was the height ( unintended Pun)..of the mini skirt.. we'd roll our school skirt up at the waist band by about 6 inches, and there was always letters home to our parents saying we had to have skirt no more than 2 inches above the knee. It wasn't about attracting boys, it was all about being in Fashion...so we'd go into school with the skirt in it's right position and the second we left the school gates we'd roll it up again.!

The difference between then and now is the entitled snowflakes, woke generation who are now the parents. who feel that they and their kids should have everything and anything they want without consequence..
Exactly, Holly. I was a teacher then myself and a mother as well and I'm embarrassed to think how short my dresses were back then. Fortunately fashion changed and midi and maxi skirts replaced the mini, although schoolgirls continued to favour short school uniforms. Some were so short I could tell the colour of their knickers as they were walking towards me. Following them up a flight of stairs it was best to keep your eyes down.
 
And did we even study Shakespeare? I suppose it was touched on in English class, but what I think of as my Shakespeare education came from Gilligan's Island...

In the 1950's I studied 11 plays by Shakespeare over 5 years. However, our school copies were bowdlerised to remove all sexy dialogue. When we were taken to a theatre to see the play performed on stage we were rather surprised to discover the censorship.

I was awakened to antisemitism by reading The Merchant of Venice. I sympathised with Shylock. After leaving school I learnt about racism by watching the movie South Pacific and by reading Othello.

I am very much opposed to withholding literature from students because of controversial subject matter. Consideration of the age of the students is important. The quality of the literature is the ultimate test.
 
I'd have to see the length of the skirts but I wouldn't be surprised if they are too short. I see young (and not so young) women wearing skirts that they'd better not bend over (eg: a counter or desk). I think it's inappropriate for school and certainly for work. Short has come to mean almost short enough to be able to detect the panties. What do we think happens to boys who's hormones are probably already going crazy when they see these girls/women? And IMO it's added temptation for pedophiles. I think when we were in school our skirts were just above the knees. It's funny to see the word trousers used so much here...in my neck of the woods we just call them pants (not to be confused with panties). :)
 
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I'd have to see the length of the skirts but I wouldn't be surprised if they are too short. I see young (and not so young) women wearing skirts that they'd better not bend over (eg: a counter or desk). I think it's inappropriate for school and certainly for work. Short has come to mean almost short enough to be able to detect the panties. What do we think happens to boys who's hormones are probably already going crazy when they see these girls/women? And IMO it's added temptation for pedophiles. I think when we were in school our skirts were just above the knees.
Not mine. I wore 'em mid thigh or shorter. As did my friends. Minis and micro-minis were all the rage in the late 60s.
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I went to a private school in London. When admitted one’s parents are given a list of requirements which include every aspect of the uniform and behaviour at the school. Their agreement is essential.
End of story…if you do not agree with the regulations then don’t go to that school.
 
I thought it was humorous when girls' skirts kept getting shorter and shorter at school until they were disciplined and then the skirts went back down to regulation length. I would stay away from girls that rolled up their skirts because I believe them to be mentally unstable because all they thought about was sex-sex-sex. Then when they were confronted about what they were doing they would turn into teen age bitches that I did not want anything to do with.
In my opinion, this ^^^^ is possibly the most shameful post I have read on these boards but, if it serves any purpose at all, it illustrates the judgments that females face even from a young age.

Girls rolled up their skirts because short skirts were the fashion; because they didn't want their friends to laugh at them if their skirts were deemed to be too long by their peers. It had absolutely nothing to do with sex or being mentally unstable.
 
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I laughed when I read this last year:

https://www.ksat.com/news/texas/202...es-skirts-and-dresses-despite-heavy-pushback/

Just google Texas school bans skirts and dresses if you don't like to click on links.

When I was in high school in Texas we were not allowed to wear pants or jeans. They were considered too provocative. However, the Texas company I worked for and retired from in 2012 did not allow women to wear pants to work. It had to be skirts or dresses. Policing women's apparel has always been a big deal in my old home state. We evil temptresses have to be kept in line.
 
Big row at a Merseyside school over the length of girls skirts. Too short in many cases. Apparently parents are saying their daughters are being humiliated by being told their skirts are too short.

I often think we live in an increasingly foolish time. A uniform policy is there for a reason and should be enforced. It is disappointing that the parents don't seem to be on the side of common sense either. School is a place of learning, not a fashion show. With so much of real concern going on in the world this is just a silly matter in my view, though there is the serious matter of school discipline at the heart of it.

What do you think?
Unfortunately these days women fight for the right for their little girls to look and act like sl*ts. They think it's something to be proud of. Why not? If they get pregnant just murder the baby and keep on moving. Sad times we live in. There was a time when people wanted their little girls to cover up more. Not any more. God forbid the schools try to make the girls dress decently.
 
From an article...

Schoolgirls are left in tears after being ordered to stand in line as 'male teachers inspected the length of their skirts to make sure they are not too short'​

"Parents at Rainford High School in St Helens, Merseyside, claimed girls whose skirts were deemed too short were made to queue up and asked to adjust their skirts by teachers - and that parents were contacted if they did not comply.

'Parents during a cost of living crisis are being forced to buy new skirts or risk the children being suspended from school, in a school that constantly preaches the importance of students attending school and lessons they find suspension a suitable consequence which is completely contradictory to the schools aim, school is supposed to prepare us for the workplace however when we see teachers in the school walking around their workplace with skirts not following these same rules it seems very unjust,' the description states. "


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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...s-order-pupils-adjust-skirts-theyre-knee.html
They should have never bought sl*tty clothes in the first place for their kids, then they wouldn't have to worry about buying more.
 
If the parents had bought the right length of skirt in the first place which would have been stated at the beginning of term..then they wouldn't have to be paying out now for the correct one.. if they're not careful.. the parents may find themselves with a school who will alter the uniform policy to trousers for all , and then they'll not have to put up with this nonsense while trying to give the child an Education !
Exactly!
In my days at school, there were boys schools and girls schools, but no mixed schools.
If parents could afford uniforms for their kids, then those kids wore uniforms, but lots of the kids didn't wear uniforms because their parents didn't have the money to buy them.

Talking about uniforms.

There are thousands of different uniforms, school, military, workwear and many, many more varieties. Did you have to wear a uniform as an adult? 😊
I bet if schools were separated by gender, the skirt length would go way down. LOL
These days many girls (at least in the US) wear short spandex (bike) shorts under their skirts. When I was in HS in the late 60s, we didn't have that option, but we wore our skirts mid thigh or shorter anyway. Everyone survived.
You call this surviving? Look at the state of the world today, I wouldn't call that surviving. LOL That's what gave birth to the sl*t culture.
 
If it were my daughter, I too would have an issue if she were told to line up while a group of male teachers inspected the length of her skirt! It surely cannot be beyond the wit of the teachers to realise it is inappropriate to task male teachers to carry out the inspection. At school, our skirt lengths were checked by two female teachers in a classroom which, I think, is a more sensible approach. In my opinion, the best way to teach children respect is to treat them with respect.
They wouldn't be in that position if they were taught to respect themselves first by not dressing loosely.
 
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