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British Schoolboys Don Skirts Amid Shorts Ban in Heatwave



LONDON (AP) — Boys at a British high school have found a novel way around strict uniform rules banning shorts, as the country swelters through a heatwave.

The schoolboys at Isca Academy in the southwestern city of Exeter donned skirts instead of the officially mandated gray slacks.

Photos in British media show the boys wearing short-sleeved white shirts, school ties and the gray and white plaid skirts that the girls wear.

Devon County Council spokesman David Beasley said about 30 boys turned up to school in skirts on Thursday, when temperatures dropped to a cool 20 degrees Celsius (68F) after days of much hotter weather. None of the skirted students was punished, he said.

The school’s head teacher, Aimee Mitchell, issued a written statement that did not mention the skirts, but pledged to revisit the uniform rules.

“We recognize that the last few days have been exceptionally hot and we are doing our utmost to enable both students and staff to remain as comfortable as possible,” she wrote.

“Shorts are not currently part of our uniform for boys and I would not want to make any changes without consulting both students and their families. However, with hotter weather becoming more normal, I would be happy to consider a change for the future,” she added.

The British students were not alone in challenging dress codes as a way of cooling down.

In the western French city of Nantes, male bus drivers reportedly wore skirts this week that are part of female drivers’ uniform to protest the fact that they were not allowed to wear shorts.
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Hasn't anyone heard of kilts?

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In a country that includes Scotland, this shouldn't raise too many eyebrows. Heck, they are even plaid! Call them 'warm weather kilts' and be done with it. Smile
 
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You'd have to threaten me with a beating and be prepared to do it to get me into a skirt. Good grief


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It's a Kilt if you ain't wearing drawers...it's a "skirt" if you are Big Grin...I'm not wearing no "skirt" (don't let your imaginations run wild Big Grin)


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Two eye-rolls in this news article:

1) There is kid, right there, plain as day, in shorts. Roll Eyes

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However, with hotter weather becoming more normal,
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However, with hotter weather becoming more normal,
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Yeah, because it's never been hot in the summer before, right? I mean come on.


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The school’s head teacher, Aimee Mitchell, issued a written statement that did not mention the skirts, but pledged to revisit the uniform rules.

“We recognize that the last few days have been exceptionally hot and we are doing our utmost to enable both students and staff to remain as comfortable as possible,” she wrote.

“Shorts are not currently part of our uniform for boys and I would not want to make any changes without consulting both students and their families. However, with hotter weather becoming more normal, I would be happy to consider a change for the future,” she added.

It sounds like it was a clever way to get the school’s head teacher's attention.
They may be successful in getting shorts approved for hot days and I doubt they would have been paid much attention if they had merely complained.



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Good for them. At least on smart kid figured out the loophole and got the rest to go along.
 
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Oh yeah, smart kids. Oh yeah, they sure fooled everyone.

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It's been a scorcher lately with temperatures in the low 80s.


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And at the other end of the spectrum, my former UPS driver got written up for wearing his official brown shorts after November 30th.

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It's been a scorcher lately with temperatures in the low 80s.


The continent HAS been hot. My wife's in Italy. It's been in the mid 90's for several days and today it broke 100°F outside Bologna.


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Someone should just tell all these little girls that they don't have to make lame excuses if they want wear a skirt. Sometimes, you just need to feel pretty, right? Perfectly normal behavior, since it further erodes the distinction between the sexes- that's the two, count 'em, two and only two sexes.

Nothing wrong with that, gentlemen. It's only a sign of the collapse of civilization, that's all.
 
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And at the other end of the spectrum, my former UPS driver got written up for wearing his official brown shorts after November 30th.

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It's been a scorcher lately with temperatures in the low 80s.


The continent HAS been hot. My wife's in Italy. It's been in the mid 90's for several days and today it broke 100°F outside Bologna.


Well, that's a fact. I'm traveling to Spain next week for a wedding and am actually not looking forward to it. It's going to be awfully hot. I certainly won't be wearing a skirt to the wedding, however.


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Someone should just tell all these little girls that they don't have to make lame excuses if they want wear a skirt. Sometimes, you just need to feel pretty, right? Perfectly normal behavior, since it further erodes the distinction between the sexes- that's the two, count 'em, two and only two sexes.

Nothing wrong with that, gentlemen. It's only a sign of the collapse of civilization, that's all.


wait - so you're saying the "science is settled?"

good enough for me. Getting beyond "him" or "her" makes me want to simultaneously laugh out loud at the ridiculousness and puke.




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I need to change my self-identity on my summer court dates so I can show up wearing flip flops, linen pants, and a button up shirt with no jacket or tie. Like the wimmins.




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They're not wearing kilts. These ladies are wearing women's garments. This is commonly referred to as cross-dressing.


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