Schoolboy wears skirt in protest against “discrimination”

Schoolboy wears skirt in protest against “discrimination”

A 12-year-old schoolboy attended lessons dressed in a skirt to protest against ”discriminatory” rules which ban boys from wearing shorts.

hris Whitehead wore a girls’ knee-length skirt to classes at Impington Village College, near Cambridge, Cambs.

The schoolboy is protesting against a school uniform policy which bans boys from wearing shorts during the summer months.

He also addressed 1,368 pupils at morning assembly wearing the black skirt, which boys are permitted to wear due to a loophole in the policy.

http://swns.com/schoolboy-wears-skirt-in-protest-against-discrimination-100958.html

Problem is that they'll probably change the rules now and prohibit only boys from wearing skirts. Then, it's time to honor your Scottish heritage and wear a kilt.

Schools are stupid. Shorts are fine in the summer.

Gosh, that takes me back. Not being allowed in the cafeteria UNLESS I was wearing a skirt. My boyfriend, wearing jeans just like I was, having to get my food for me so we could get back to hanging lights in the school theater.

and boys couldn't wear blue jeans to school. They changed those rules in 1964, the year after I graduated.

The Day Queens College Broke the Dress Code. Glory in jeans.

the whole in loco parentis thing. Strict hours for the dorm women, but none for the guys. Expulsion for any female student who visited a guy's apartment.

It all ended with a lawsuit. A 22-year-old senior woman was expelled for spending the night at her fiance's apartment. She sued and won, and that was the end of all that bullshit.

On the other hand, our student health center (we had them in those days) started prescribing the birth control pill less than 30 days after it was available. At least they understood the situation.

He lived in a high-rise dorm, and the rule was that no females were allowed on any upper floor--they had to wait in the lobby and the boys would come down to visit with them. So my mom, aunt, and I had to stay in the lobby while my dad and uncle went up to his room.

Trouble was, as we sat in the lobby, we watched a steady parade of "sweet young thangs" going into and coming out of the elevators. Apparently enforcement wasn't the college's strong suit. But my mom never did go up to her son's dorm room--just in case security decided to throw the book at her for being female. I think we finally (and with great trepidation) dared to break the rule when we went there for his graduation. I just remember the hallway smelling like dirty socks.
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They all smell like that :rofl:

Same familiar funk hit my nostrils on the "guys' floors" in the dorms at my own college 10 years later, and I'll bet they still smell the same today--!

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First girl to wear pants to my Jr High School. It was winter. I wore a skirt over them so when my mom asked what I was up to I told her it was to keep warm and that I'd take them off when I got to school (not). I was scared to death but the only punishment I got from TPTB were glares. The next day another girl and I both wore pants, and it was a free for all after that.

:fistbump: :hippie:

edit for wrong year

It was deliberate and planned. The women of Queens College walked in wearing pants and the dress code was over. Period.

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That sounds like an effective protest. Maybe next time some of the other boys will join him.

It's hot out there....