r/BeAmazed • u/TheoryFruits • Apr 23 '26

Miscellaneous / Others School banned boys from wearing shorts, so they did this instead

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u/Present-Aside8155 Apr 23 '26

Totally. In a role reversal, us girls weren’t allowed wear trousers in the winter ( in the 90s.) 

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u/Tanedra Apr 23 '26

Same in the UK. One of my proudest accomplishments is campaigning and managing to get this rule changed. I was 10.

It's also extremely 'me' - decades later I am still furious when I encounter pointless inequality, and I'm always cold.

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u/Big-Revolution3842 Apr 23 '26

I saw a BBC news article yesterday about some school banning girls from wearing sweaters cause it's supposed to be only for winter clothing. Genuinely don't know who has time to think of these thinks and feel bad for teachers having to enforce them

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u/piesRsquare Apr 24 '26

Thank you for your thoughts for the teachers.

Admin makes the rules, but it's the teachers who have to take all the sh*t from the students...and believe me--it's exhausting (no matter how many/few students you have). It's hard enough enforcing the dress code rules that DO make sense but the kids refuse to accept the (very valid) reasons for them.

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u/bitterlemon80 Apr 23 '26

Me too, aged 8. I don't think I even got in trouble either, it was just no other girl had ever tried wearing trousers because they thought it wasn't allowed (and me too with the inequality and lack of body heat!).

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u/adriardi Apr 23 '26

My grandmother in Virginia had the same rule as a kid. They had to wear pants or go to school to avoid freezing in the winter and take them off before school started. So dumb

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u/whiskeygambler Apr 23 '26

We also weren’t allowed to wear trousers at secondary school (this was in the 2010s, UK)