The British state secondary schools in my area all allow girls to wear trousers or skirts. It's only the hoity toity fee-paying schools that are stuck in the past and require skirts only.
When I was in elementary school in the US, I was forced to wear skirts or dresses to school daily, except for a gym day. I loved gym days! I hated having to wear dresses. Fortunately for me, that rule changed when I hit junior high. The school district went from a very strict dress code for all students (even boys in high school couldn't wear jeans -- only nice, tidy trousers, and even the sock colour was prescribed) to pretty much anything goes.
Nowadays, not permitting trousers seems very outdated and I wonder how it might work with more and more students coming out as transgender at a young age. There could be lawsuits based on the Equality Act. Perhaps the fee-paying schools will just tell them to go to state schools.
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Date: 2016-02-09 05:11 pm (UTC)When I was in elementary school in the US, I was forced to wear skirts or dresses to school daily, except for a gym day. I loved gym days! I hated having to wear dresses. Fortunately for me, that rule changed when I hit junior high. The school district went from a very strict dress code for all students (even boys in high school couldn't wear jeans -- only nice, tidy trousers, and even the sock colour was prescribed) to pretty much anything goes.
Nowadays, not permitting trousers seems very outdated and I wonder how it might work with more and more students coming out as transgender at a young age. There could be lawsuits based on the Equality Act. Perhaps the fee-paying schools will just tell them to go to state schools.