News: Boys get in trouble for wearing skirts at school.

Well it turns out its hot as fuck at school in ScotlandWales Scotland right about now, so some boys decided to wear shorts to school. And then shorts got banned. So them boys started wearing skirts because its still hot as fuck.

.. 36-year old mother Karen Davies is upset because she says her 15-year old son, Steven, passed out from heat stroke after a day at school wearing trousers.

"It's cooled us down quite a lot," said one student. "If we wore trousers in class it would affect us. Getting sweaty and also losing concentration because of the heat."

“So I sent him to school on Thursday in a pair of tailored shorts. I had cut down a pair of school trousers and I hemmed them up properly," she told the Daily Star."

I was told he would spend the day in inclusion because he wasn’t wearing a pair of trousers or they will send him home to me, There’s a lot of boys in years 10 and 11 who are walking around in skirts, if I hadn’t seen it I wouldn’t believe it.”

“The girls have the choice between skirts and trousers why can’t the boys have a choice?” she added.

ThisIs50: Huh? Boys Wearing Skirts To School After Ban On Shorts. Parents Angry [Video]

A commenter down there commented, if you can read between the lines:

"That sauce is gravy as farce foreal. I blame Scotland, and I blame Kanye and A$AP Rocky for this corny sasperella."

It was hot today, and it'll still be hot tomorrow. Its more of these schools wanting to keep uniformity and tradition, no matter the health of these lads. And for the record, they don't look very fabulous, but look like they're regular boys that play Halo and Pokemon like everyone else.

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Edit: And I guess The Guardian got flack for boys wearing not-pretty skirts on YouTube, and pulled the video. They were boring skirts, in fact. I like the picture the video has anyway.

Dem fucking dope kicks wit the yellow laces.

I'm of the belief that any school with uniforms is a piece of shit school.

I think it's cool that those guys wear skirts to circumvent regulations. And that lady is right: if girls can wear either skirts or trousers, it makes sense that boys should also be offered that choice.

Wear a Kilt.

In the UK, you'd be hard-pressed to find any schools that didn't have a uniform. That being said, they are all pretty shitty.

Heh, when I was in second grade, everyone had to sit on the floor cross-legged, unless you were a girl wearing a skirt. A kid name Nick complained to the teacher about sitting cross-legged, and her response was "Don't like sitting cross-legged? Then wear a skirt to school!" So he borrowed one from his sister. Thanks, Mrs. Rice.

I used to think that until I moved to New Zealand. I fuckin' loved it.

...anyway. Style's going to keep moving in bizarre directions, it always does. Maybe cross-dressing will be the next big thing, and the popular kids are all going to be transvestites. Who knows?

They don't sound Scottish ? you sure that's not Wales ?

@cabbages: .. What is that called, then? Walish? Scottish from Wales?.

Woah. Why do you say that? Here where I live (Barbados) all of the schools have uniforms. Nothing wrong with that.

Considering school is a lot more about enforcing conformity than learning and rewarding clever problem solving, this isn't much of a surprise.

@blu3v3nom07:

Welsh people are from Wales and Scottish people are from Scotland

Welsh.

Also, I find this circumvention of the rules pretty funny. I also find it pretty disgusting that the school wouldn't at least distribute shorts or something if they want kids to stay in uniforms. It would be great if a large group of parents gathered together and sent all of their boys to school in shorts (or a skirt!); that way, the school would have to do something. EDIT: And I mean well over half the boys, probably more like 3/4 of them would be most effective.

@cabbages: .. I should of known that.. Alright. Maybe they are Welsh, I dunno.

Man, I know a guy who would be suspended every Halloween if he went to this school.

@tearhead: This is going to sound like some hippie nonsense but I think kids being able to express themselves is really important to their growth. Telling them all to dress the same encourages conformity and limits their creativity, I think.

....Maaaaaaaaaannnnnn

I am pretty sure if this were a TV show there'd be some super nerdy guy that says "well technically if you check the rules" and then the principal gets really angry and yells into the ceiling in his office

If they are dropping their handkerchief on the floor on purpose THEN THERE SHOULD be a problem.

I like these guys's ingenuity. They should be praised, not scolded!

Nah, totally agree with you. Its my same issue with Fathers trying to instill what they think are "manly" things in their sons instead of letting them do what they want because Dad is a homophobe and doesn't want his son to be gay. Like fucking let kids be who they want to be. As long as they grow up to be civil people who gives a flying fuck about anything else. All this gender reinforcement shit that is still present in society irks me.

Boys will be boys.

It's Scotland, isn't dudes wearing skirts a normal thing?

And yes, fuck you a kilt is just a "manskirt".

"I have the weirdest boner right now."

Next thing you know, girls will be wearing pants.

It's Wales. Gowerton, near Swansea (just off the A484, about four miles north-west of Swansea to be exact.) It's almost as if no-one, including the OP, read the article linked in the original post. How unusual.

It really is hot as shit right now. Maybe I should get a skirt...

There always seems to be a story like this every year or so somewhere. Where a boy wears girls close to prove some point, the school does something stupid to punish him, and the news has a field day with it and then it goes away and we all forget about it in a few weeks.

The pleated skirt looked right, the other skirt was a bit tight for a guy with his legs.

Or at least wear a decent heel, for christ's sake, show off those calves.

Another school with a stupid rule.

Don't a lot of countries have school uniform laws or whatever? I know Japan's pretty big on that shit, and they can't be alone.

There's a lot to be said for school uniform, but if a skirt is acceptable under the dress code then it should be acceptable for everybody I suppose.

Why would they ban shorts but allow girls to wear skirts anyway?

It's not Scotland, but even then, kilts are only worn during super formal occasions like weddings. You won't see people just randomly wearing them around.

6th-8th grade I had to wear a tie and blazer. Worst experience of my life

@blu3v3nom07:

That is 100% wales as it is in Swansea in WALES.

I am also Scottish.

Also same thing happened a few years ago. ALSO posted here on Giant Bomb.

http://www.giantbomb.com/forums/general-discussion-30/fascist-school-district-bans-shorts-boys-wear-skir-495273/

The news story of Cambridge boys 2 years ago. Cambridge is in England.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/odd/news/a318923/boy-wears-skirt-to-school-after-shorts-ban.html

Ps the weather has been super hot in th UK. My balls have been sloshing around in my own sweat.

The quote a lot of 10 & 11 year old boys go around wearing skirts disturbs me. Call me old fashioned , but boys or men do not wear skirts. Period.

I've been threatening to go to work in a skirt all summer and actually got permission from my boss. I may need to go out and buy me a skirt if these temperatures keep up.

Old fashioned

What kind of terrible school bans shorts?

People used to get outraged over women wearing trousers. Maybe you're one of them too, but things do change. You're entitled to your opinion of course, but don't hold your breath waiting for the world to conform to it.

This is not me saying one is better than the other, but I think with uniforms you're less likely to get bullying of the "you have poor clothes so you're poor..hahahahaha poor" variety.

Just watched the video. Fainting because of long pants? WHAT?

Why the hell did shorts get banned but girls are allowed to wear skirts? That's a hot load of bullshit.

Takes confidence to wear a skirt in this society where you are likely to be scolded for it. Props to them as it is mad hot and they be able to wear whatever. I guess this a fancy school with a serious dress code that the skirts violate. Still, the source stated that girls can choose between pants and skirts. Why can't the males have a choice between pants and shorts. Sure the skirts break the rules, but the rules are kinda silly in the first place.

We all know where I stand on this.

@akyho: I'm Australian, I find the idea of a heatwave in the UK to be hilarious.

What is it, 24 degrees? :P I kid, I kid

Alright I'm down. It's hot as hell here too, I'm wearing a skirt to work tomorrow. Ain't nobody gonna tell me how to live.

It was like 97 degrees here in Western Washington a few weeks ago so I threw on one of my skirts because fuck pants in that type of weather. Skirts are alright. All of the pleasure of not wearing pants with only slightly less social stigma.

With uniforms you will not have any problems with bullying because your parents are poor and you can not wear certain brands. I think school Uniforms are great and I wished we had something like that.

I never was bullied for my clothes despite the fact that they were all shit.

(I was never bullied at all, actually, past middle school)