@AlphaCentauri I recall several girls at my UK primary school being sent home for wearing mini skirts. They were hustled off the premises very quickly.
The age range where kids start dressing themselves is the age range when they’re trying to figure out who the hell they are. Arbitrary and discriminately enforced rules about how they present themselves beyond the realm of health and safety do nothing to help that, and adults need to fucking be adults by letting kids be themselves. The way we run schools is practically tailor-made to maximize mental illness and emotional trauma in a technically legal manner, ffs.
@AlphaCentauri @gshevlin
At my school, girls would get sent home for this kind of crap but guys could wear tank tops with the arm holes ripped all the way down to the hem. They were barely even functional as shirts.
I say let kids dress how they want as long as it’s sanitary, and teach kids (boys) not to let a girl’s body make them lose all semblance of civility and control.
I hate the concept of uniforms in schools with a passion that is almost holy, so let’s just nip that in the bud.