Skirts for the boys
 

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They'd be great to wear in the Summer.

They should all wander in with knickers and bows..give whatever teacher thought this up a thrill.

Mind you.....


Me and 3 mates did do highland dancing in P7, in the hope of a chance of a snog with Gillian, Jackie, nicola or tracey on the bus that would have went to the Scottish school highland dancing championships, if we had been good enough.


We didnt make it due to Gillian, Jackie, Nicola and Tracey allowing a little bit more than a snog during practice evenings.

Don't loads of men in Scotland wear skirts anyway?

I understand a stance in Spain in support of someone who was expelled for wearing a skirt….but is this really necessary?

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Anyone who finds a problem with this is weird. Anyone that has any problem with what other people/strangers wear is weird.

Men have been wearing skirts for thousands of years (including your fellow Scots). What’s the problem?

Not a crime to be weird.

Anybody who has a problem with people being weird is?

Can’t you express an opinion without calling people weird for not having the same opinion as you?….

No! Some wear Kilts, not School skirts.

The skirt isn't the problem, it's the social engineering behind it that some people see as the problem.

They should be able to wear whatever they want so long as it falls within uniform policy. That’s how it is in most schools now surely - girls are allowed to wear trousers, no one is forced to wear a skirt. On that note, yes boys should be ALLOWED to wear a skirt if they want and it’s part of the uniform (for either).

Well from the picture and story, they are allowed to wear it. I don't think anyone has said they shouldn't be allowed. But as Parmy says, the teacher has just made this up. What if some teacher's don't want to draw the line at just seeing young boys in traditional schoolgirl skirts, what if they want to push it even more?

was about to ask the same thing :laugh:


i thought this was very traditional in Scotland

Was about to say this lol nobody sees an issue with kilts

The only social engineering that’s happened is coding certain items of clothing as for boys or for girls

The proof will be in the future, when the masculine Russian men invade. Thankfully, for the time being, your ideas are still in a very, very small minority, but they are growing.

GIrls having one bit of fabric that goes round the middle and boys having two long tubes of fabric that go down each leg is 100% social conditioning though. It's completely devoid of meaning other than the meaning applied to it by the observer and their societal norms. That's pretty much the definition of social engineering. "But that social engineering happened centuries ago!" doesn't really have any bearing on it either; there's nothing that makes "old" societal norms inherently better than "new" ones.

Modern war is fought and won with technology and money Alf, if anything if we want to win wars, we want a country full of programming and robotics geeks who are really good at flight simulators.

Big Manly Russian Men don't tend to fare particularly well against drones that can turn them into red mist before they've even heard it coming.

People should be able to wear what they like no? I mean that’s kinda how the world works. What is it about this that doesn’t sit right with you? Why is it wrong?

There is a very good reason for school uniform and rules at school

same applies to make-up and jewelry

follow the rules and learn

Elaborate on the rules for the group

i think every member has been to school

Bless you. You tried

Asking them to wear skirts is not promoting equality unless they also ask the girls to do so? Otherwise the option should be given, not them told to do it? That would be equality surely..

Unless I am misunderstanding.

I never said they couldn't...if a boy wants to wear a skirt then let him wear a skirt. However making primary school boys wear a skirt to promote equality is wrong. Asking them to do something they might feel uncomfortable doing but feeling compelled to do so because of peer pressure is unacceptable imo.

They wasn’t ‘made’ to do anything.

You would think after covid they would be buckling down to actual schoolwork?

It's wrong cause it's turning a bunch of boys into a bunch of Jessie's.

When a teacher suggests to a class or a year or the whole school that this is what they are doing...PRIMARY aged school kids are not going to refuse..they will feel peer pressure from friends and other teachers and feel pressured into doing something they possibly dont feel comfortable with. These are Primary school children...not senior school pupils that have developed an opinion on such matters.

Thats what is wrong...

But again, nobody was made to to it.

Where has anybody said they can't? Are you seeing things that don't exist?

Other people should be able to criticise things if they like, that pleasure shouldn't be just for you.

As someone who has major masculinity issues I can see why you would say that. Bless.

It’s called reading between the lines Alf. It clearly is a problem for some people which it shouldn’t be.

If boys and girls were treated equally in schools in everything else i could understand it, but they are not

Surely at Primary age the parents would be consulted? My son's school would seek permission. Plus where have these skirts come from? I couldn't send my kid to school in a skirt that would fit him so he wouldn't be taking part.

Sounds like just a PR stunt to me

please try to debate without member abuse

it really diminishes any point you are trying to make

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No doubt but seeking permission means nothing to a child of 10/11 who will not want to be any different to his friends or against a stance requested by a teacher….unless he is a child with a strong character he is going to go along with it whether he likes it or not. These are young children and personally I think they shouldn’t be put in this position…