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At my 6yo’s school there is an issue with boys looking up the girl’s skirts to see their knickers. The school have tackled this by amending the girls’ uniform to include playsuits. And this, my friends, is where females start adapting their behaviour to fit into a male world.
Such enraged responses to this, I felt I should add more info.when the upskirting offence came in I did email the head to tell him about the situation where we had adapted uniforms by adding cycling shorts. I told him that it should not be the responsibility of girls to adapt....
Themselves but that it could be used as a springboard to educate BOTH sexes about respect for ONE ANOTHER’S bodies. His reply was to thank me for the link and say that this is why they had adapted the uniform rules to include playsuits & sent me link to M&S ones...
Nothing about addressing behaviour of boys, or educating girls and boys. I understand schools are under a lot of pressure and we, as parents, need to be responsible for educating our kids too, but just like children, some adults find this acceptable behaviour...
But my question is, at what point will their sons need to face the consequences for not being educated out of this behaviour as a kid? The buck, in the end, will stop with the child. I must say also, I wonder how much I have colluded with this already myself...
By adapting the school uniform to save my daughter’s embarrassment. The answer to me seems to be educating both girls and boys about respect for one another, but right now I feel that I’m a nuisance for raising this — and that means im also guilty of collusion IMO
I also realise some will find my response — or even this post — over the top, but it is my firm opinion that this is how this drip drip effect feeds into girls as they grow about how they need to adapt themselves but boys don’t need to change their behaviour.
Having read some of the responses, I’m very curious to know if this is something other parents have experienced at their schools?
Really surprised at the reaction to this tweet. I wanted to add that the boys’ behaviour has stopped BECAUSE the uniform has been adapted. However, just because it’s stopped for my child doesn’t meant I am happy for it to happen to another, until they adapt and so on...
...but it does seem to be just one example of a much wider problem, & left untackled, there are horror stories in the replies about what might happen,girls being pinned down to satisfy boys’ curiosity etc. I’ve written again to the head telling him his response was ....
... unsatisfactory, I suggested that if boys were having their pants pulled down, parents wouldn’t be advised to add a belt to their uniform, & and if it were happening to adults, he wouldn’t tell female teachers to wear trousers not skirts. So we shall see how he responds. 🤔
