Skirts ban for pupils to stop male staff blushing!

Uniform: Pupils Isabel Cartwright, 15, left, and Charlotte Vila-Watkiry, 15,
dressed in the skirt and trousers allowed under the current school rules

A school has banned pupils from wearing skirts because they are 'distracting male teachers and pupils'.

Trentham High School, in Stoke-on-Trent Staffordshire, has ordered that all students now wear the same style of 'business-like' trousers to stop pupils coming to lessons in clothing that 'barely covers their bottoms'.

Headmistress Dr Rowena Blencowe said she has been forced to introduce the new rules because staff have started spending more time telling pupils to roll down their skirts than teaching. Male members of staff were embarrassed at having to tell girls at the 750-pupil mixed secondary to stop rolling up their waistbands to make their skirts even shorter, she said.

Girls at Trentham High School, are currently allowed to wear black trousers or black knee-length skirts with black tights. From September, they will be sent home if they are not wearing 'business-like trousers'.

Year 10 pupil Katie Palmer, 15, said: 'It looks really good and it's practical. Most of my fiends are not fussed about it'. But mum-of-two Janet Thomson, 40, thinks that banning skirts is nothing short of 'draconian'.

I think we need to start taking responsibility for what happens in our society and use every available means to bring sanity in the system. What is your view on this?

Source: Metro Friday, July 3, 2015.