Yes, the state secondary schools around here pretty much all allow trousers or skirts for girls.
Something that comes to mind, though, about this head's idea that school is for 'work' and, therefore, the students must dress accordingly, is how, when I worked at a state secondary school here in Hampshire (best in the league tables for the county), on rare non-uniform days, other teachers would comment about how wild the students were in terms of behaviour. However, I never noticed a difference. Perhaps it's what you're used to. Maybe they expected them to misbehave out of uniform and I didn't.
Now, of course, I teach in FE, where there aren't any uniforms. It's one thing students love about leaving school. :)
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Date: 2016-02-09 08:41 pm (UTC)Something that comes to mind, though, about this head's idea that school is for 'work' and, therefore, the students must dress accordingly, is how, when I worked at a state secondary school here in Hampshire (best in the league tables for the county), on rare non-uniform days, other teachers would comment about how wild the students were in terms of behaviour. However, I never noticed a difference. Perhaps it's what you're used to. Maybe they expected them to misbehave out of uniform and I didn't.
Now, of course, I teach in FE, where there aren't any uniforms. It's one thing students love about leaving school. :)