England has been experiencing some rather warm weather over the past few days. Unfortunately, due to strict uniform rules, male students attending Isca Academy in Exeter, Southwest England, are not allowed to wear shorts. The school only allows them to wear trousers. In protest of this, 30 boys recently attended the school wearing skirts. The principal has now chosen to review the uniform rules.

I read somewhere that a teacher, or even the head teacher actually encouraged the action so that the rules could be addressed. Mind you most schools, certainly here, would probably not permit shorts either.

My son's school used to have 'short sleeve order' when it was hot which meant that they could remove their ties, not wear blazers or suit jackets and if wearing long sleeves, could roll them up.

Many schools here have skirt and shorts combined (skort?), for girls, but it is very hot We have high 30s , which I love,( but the Brits are whinging as usual).I thought the pictures of the boys in skirts were quite a pleasant sight. Why not, I say
I will admit that all our schools have A/C so it's not a problem, but we suffer when the winter sets in when we have no heating. Girls are allowed trousers when the temperature goes down to 15.

The trousers they're supposed to wear are probably made of viscose or possibly a wool mix, neither of which are particularly cool. I'm not surprised they got hot and bothered when the temperature down there was over 30C - and was probably more indoors with all those people around. Why it got so hot here even I wore a skirt - and that hasn't happened for at least a decade!

You let schoolgirls wear trousers when it's 15 degrees? Centigrade? That's 59F! Who's whinging now? (or rather, then?)

Sounds like the Catholic high school I went to.

Even funnier than the protest; last evening on our local news it was reported that one of the lads wearing a dress was sent home... Not for wearing it but due to the fact that it was deemed too short and contravened school policy!

You couldn't make it up.