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School bans girls from wearing skirts because it's 'distracting for male teachers when they walk up stairs or sit down'
By Stephanie Linning and Hannah Parry For Mailonline
Published: 13:22 GMT, 2 July 2015 | Updated: 23:24 GMT, 2 July 2015

•     Headmistress said she was tired of telling pupils to roll down their skirts
•     She said some girls wore skirts that 'barely covered their bottoms'
•     Added the length of hemlines had become a distraction for male teachers
•     Some male pupils also complained short skirts detracted from lessons
  

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.

'Now it's just a constant nag,' she said. 'Girls are coming in with skirts that just cover their bottoms - it's totally inappropriate.

'Girls with the right length skirts are just rolling them up. We tell them in form period to roll them down, but by first break they're back up again.

'It's not pleasant for male members of staff and students either, the girls have to walk up stairs and sit down and it's a complete distraction.

'After a while it stops being a uniform issue and starts becoming a safeguarding issue.'

One pupil admitted that he also found the short skirts a distraction.

Edward Burrows told MailOnline: 'This might be a bit crude, but I've seen more modest belts.

'It might be a bit shocking for a teenage boy to say, but you don't really want to be seeing that when you're walking round school.

'The thing about them distracting the male teachers is true. It distracts me so I can understand it distracts them.

'We had mocks preparation not long a go, practising for when we're doing exams next year.

'And you look over, as you do, and you see someone's bum and that's in your mind then.

'When you're stressed you're easily distracted.'  

Female pupils are currently allowed to wear black trousers or black skirts - with hemlines either on the knee or just above - with black tights.

But as of September, all pupils will be sent home if they are not wearing 'business-like trousers'.

Dr Blencowe said the issue of school skirts has become 'an increasing problem over the last two years', especially with girls in years 9, 10 and 11.

'Girls in year seven, and possibly year eight, tend to abide by the rules, but as they get older the skirts get shorter,' she said.

She said she decided to ban skirts after other attempts to tackle the uniform problem failed.

'If a skirt is too short, the student is warned and a length of time is agreed for the issue to be resolved, but girls are still coming in with consistently short skirts,' she said.

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New rules: Headmistress Dr Rowena Blencowe (pictured with a poster showing the current skirt length) said she had no choice but to completely overhaul the uniform after other attempts to address the issue failed

'We've tried calling parents, sending pupils home and we've even had to buy some girls new skirts, which isn't something a school should have to do.'

She said the idea to ban skirts received the full support of the staff when it was put forward at a staff meeting, and that the school governors gave it 'unanimous backing'.

Dr Blencowe added: 'We did the same with clip-on ties two years ago. Now, we don't have to worry about students having their ties done up properly and their top buttons being done up.

'The ban won't apply to staff, but we do have high expectations across the school.'  

Year 10 pupil Katie Palmer, 15, said: 'The new uniform looks really good and is practical. I always wear trousers and most of my friends are not fussed about it.'

However, another 16-year-old pupil, added: 'In this heat it is impractical and really uncomfortable to wear trousers - we are not boys and we want to wear skirts.'  


The headmistress said the clothes made male teachers and students at Trentham High School, Staffordshire, pictured, feel embarrassed when they saw girls 'walk up stairs or sit down'

Julie Jones, 48, whose daughter, Ellie, 13, attends the school, said: 'It is a shame for the girls who like to wear skirts and abide by the rules on skirt length, but overall I am okay with the decision.

'The teachers are probably fed up of spending time talking to children about the length of their skirts rather than teaching.'

Liz Crawshaw, 42, who has a 13-year-old daughter, Rachel, at the school, added: 'Rachel always wears trousers anyway.

'I think some of the skirts look too short, so I can understand where the school is coming from.'

But Clara Jamieson, 35, whose niece attends the school, said: 'Most of the girls wear skirts at a respectable length. This has gone down badly with my niece and her friends.'

And mother-of-two Janet Thomson, 40, added: 'I can't see what the problem is. This has been going on for years even when I was a teenager.

'These are not primary school girls - they are becoming young women and should be allowed to wear skirts.

'I agree there is a point where it becomes inappropriate but to ban skirts altogether is little draconian to say the least.'

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