Are trousers the answer in the great hemline debate? Head teachers aren’t convinced, says Peter Stanford
The appropriate length for a school skirt has, for generations, been a daily battleground between pupils, teachers and parents. Just as my mother and sister used to slug it out over how long her convent kilt should be to meet the nuns’ approval, now I have the same argument with my 15-year-old daughter.
It seems even the most obedient girl, once she becomes a teenager, starts hitching up her school skirt to a length best described as 'pelmet’.
But Dr Rowena Blencowe, head of Trentham High School in Stoke-on-Trent, wants an end to this hemline war. She has decreed that, come September, girls at her mixed comprehensive will be required to wear “businesslike” trousers.
It is practice that has been taken up in recent years by an estimated 60 secondaries in England and Wales, or 1.5 per cent of the total.
“I don’t want staff wasting any more time sorting out skirts,” she explains wearily.
Are trousers the answer in the great hemline debate? Head teachers aren’t convinced, says Peter StanfordThe appropriate length for a school skirt has, for generations, been a daily battleground between pupils, teachers and parents. Just as my mother and sister used to slug it out over how long her convent kilt should be to meet the nuns’ approval, now I have the same argument with my 15-year-old daughter.It seems even the most obedient girl, once she becomes a teenager, starts hitching up her school skirt to a length best described as 'pelmet’.But Dr Rowena Blencowe, head of Trentham High School in Stoke-on-Trent, wants an end to this hemline war. She has decreed that, come September, girls at her mixed comprehensive will be required to wear “businesslike” trousers.It is practice that has been taken up in recent years by an estimated 60 secondaries in England and Wales, or 1.5 per cent of the total.“I don’t want staff wasting any more time sorting out skirts,” she explains wearily.
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