[leewgrant]

When I was in school it was the other way round. Girls wore skirts and slacks were banned.

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Catholic school bans kilts

Call it a flap over fabric – or lack thereof.

Scandalized by shrinking skirts among its female student body, a Catholic high school in Mississauga is going to great lengths to ensure the school's code of modesty is covered.

Kilts, whose varying lengths frustrated policing teachers as skirts were furtively rolled up or subject to guerrilla hemming, are henceforth banned from the uniform altogether.

Under old uniform policy, Philip Pocock Secondary School's female students could choose between black slacks and a plaid kilt meant to reach the knee. But starting next month, pants are the order of the day.

Philip Pocock Principal Henry Tyndorf declined to comment, referring questions to Dufferin Peele Catholic District School Board communications manager Bruce Campbell.

“The issue is primarily one of morality and modesty: Girls are just wearing the kilts way too short and it's difficult to enforce,” he said. “You see a student and you have to approach them and say, ‘You know, your uniform is too short.' ... It's just really difficult to enforce, and there's way too much time involved.

“We're in the business of educating kids.”...

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/nat ... le1267544/

[kitty]

i went to Catholic school and i wore a kilt. We did not have the option to wear slacks then but i am sure that if we could most girls would have worn slacks. Who wants to be seventeen and still wearing knee socks and penny loafers not to mention we froze in the winter.

The rule was that your kilt had to touch the floor when you were on your knees. my kilt was short: a couple of inches above the knee but most girls wore it the same way. Of course there were a few girls who barely had any pleats at all it was so short and they are the ones that ruined it for everyone.

[saturn_656]

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“We're in the business of educating kids.”...

and dressing them it seems as well...

[Hyack]

[PENATRATOR]

kitty wrote:

i went to Catholic school and i wore a kilt. .

PICS PICS?????

[Lemmy]

saturn_656 wrote:

Quote:

“We're in the business of educating kids.”...

and dressing them it seems as well...

Education requires an environment conducive to learning. When the kids' attire is detracting from a positive learning environment, then this sort of a policy is necessary. When the teachers are forced to spend an inordinate amount of their time and energy enforcing the dress code, when we're paying them to teach, it's time to solve the problem. As Kitty said, too bad a few tarts ruin it for everyone.

[saturn_656]

Lemmy wrote:

saturn_656 wrote:

Quote:

“We're in the business of educating kids.”...

and dressing them it seems as well...

Education requires an environment conducive to learning. When the kids' attire is detracting from a positive learning environment, then this sort of a policy is necessary. When the teachers are forced to spend an inordinate amount of their time and energy enforcing the dress code, when we're paying them to teach, it's time to solve the problem. As Kitty said, too bad a few tarts ruin it for everyone.

I'm young enough to recall my high school years with relative clarity, and a few girls in short skirts never disrupted our "positive learning environment".

I'm guessing this has more to do with prudish administrators than anything else.

[kitty]

Every kid complains about having to wear a uniform but i loved it! i didnt have to spend any time choosing an outfit in the morning nor spend money on tons of clothes.

Uniforms make everyone the same and eliminates the focus on what you are wearing and makes it more about what you are doing.

[Lemmy]

saturn_656 wrote:

I'm young enough to recall my high school years with relative clarity, and a few girls in short skirts never disrupted our "positive learning environment".

I'm guessing this has more to do with prudish administrators than anything else.

I remember my highschool days clearly too. I remember barely being able to concentrate on ANYTHING academic with all the girls around. I'm sure I had about 12 boners in every 70 minute class. That's life for a teenaged boy.

But this has nothing to do with "prudism", it's about professionalism. It's about teaching kids about deportment and decorum. It's about them learning that school, like big-sister's wedding and Grandma's funeral, are places where you don't dress like a slut.

[saturn_656]

kitty wrote:

Every kid complains about having to wear a uniform but i loved it! i didnt have to spend any time choosing an outfit in the morning nor spend money on tons of clothes.

Uniforms make everyone the same and eliminates the focus on what you are wearing and makes it more about what you are doing.

Our school had no uniforms, and it took me five minutes to get dressed the morning, tops.

But then again I am male, most of us don't care what we wear, as long as it passes the "sniff" test.

[saturn_656]

Lemmy wrote:

saturn_656 wrote:

I'm young enough to recall my high school years with relative clarity, and a few girls in short skirts never disrupted our "positive learning environment".

I'm guessing this has more to do with prudish administrators than anything else.

It's about them learning that school, like big-sister's wedding and Grandma's funeral, are places where you don't dress like a slut.

Really?

I think you'd better spread the word... because a few in the latest generation didn't get that memo.

IMO if someone is a "slut" their behaviour will still reflect that, regardless of how they are dressed.

[Brenda]

Thank you Saturn

[kitty]

Lemmy wrote:

saturn_656 wrote:

I'm young enough to recall my high school years with relative clarity, and a few girls in short skirts never disrupted our "positive learning environment".

I'm guessing this has more to do with prudish administrators than anything else.

I remember my highschool days clearly too. I remember barely being able to concentrate on ANYTHING academic with all the girls around. I'm sure I had about 12 boners in every 70 minute class. That's life for a teenaged boy.

But this has nothing to do with "prudism", it's about professionalism. It's about teaching kids about deportment and decorum. It's about them learning that school, like big-sister's wedding and Grandma's funeral, are places where you don't dress like a slut.

i knew a few girls who would roll their kilts up at the waist when they got to school and would roll them back down when they got home. Where are the parents of the girls who actually wore their kilts as micro minis to school?

Teachers should not have to be bothered by kids who blatantly disregard uniform rules. Their job is to teach. Parents need to be more aware of what their children are wearing and doing.

[Lemmy]

kitty wrote:

I knew a few girls who would roll their kilts up at the waist when they got to school and would roll them back down when they got home. Where are the parents of the girls who actually wore their kilts as micro minis to school?

Teachers should not have to be bothered by kids who blatantly disregard uniform rules. Their job is to teach. Parents need to be more aware of what their children are wearing and doing.

[saturn_656]

Brenda wrote:

Thank you Saturn

Don't you find conformity to be so boring?