School Uniform protest
Discussion
HD Adam said:
A Poofy Schoolboy said:
"We're not allowed to wear shorts, and I'm not sitting in trousers all day, it's a bit hot."
Ah, diddums.1976 was my last year of school. I managed to survive till the end of term in long trousers.
Presumably some of these boys will end up in jobs with a dress code too. How will they manage?
This is why people end up on zero hours contracts
ks to aid one's education.
mikal83 said:
We wore shorts at primary school then at big boys school, ( a grammer), it was black trousers, black shoes/socks. White shirt and blazer with school tie. If it was declared hot, then the tie came off as did the blazer and sleeves were rolled up.
Same for me. Referred to as 'shirt sleeve order'. 
matchmaker said:
Pickled said:
And yet years ago, boys would have been made to wear shorts even in the middle of winter.
First year of my secondary school shorts were compulsary. That was after years of wearing long trousers at primary school!We had a mental teacher, think it was Doyle, but I might be getting confused with Grange Hill or the Professionals.
An education in an overheating asbestos prefab and a wooden chalkboard wiper to the skull if you dared loosen or remove any clothing in the heat.
Never did me any harm. I learned to live with the palsy.
1976 was actually the year all the metal framed window panes kept exploding.
No cordon, no fuss, the teaching went on, just brush the shards out your hair dear and don't make a mess with that blood.
An education in an overheating asbestos prefab and a wooden chalkboard wiper to the skull if you dared loosen or remove any clothing in the heat.
Never did me any harm. I learned to live with the palsy.
1976 was actually the year all the metal framed window panes kept exploding.
No cordon, no fuss, the teaching went on, just brush the shards out your hair dear and don't make a mess with that blood.
Edited by Mr GrimNasty on Thursday 22 June 17:45
Mr GrimNasty said:
We had a mental teacher, think it was Doyle, but I might be getting confused with Grange Hill or the Professionals.
An education in an overheating asbestos prefab and a wooden chalkboard wiper to the skull if you dared loosen or remove any clothing in the heat.
Never did me any harm. I learned to live with the palsy.
1976 was actually the year all the metal framed window panes kept exploding.
No cordon, no fuss, the teaching went on, just brush the shards out your hair dear and don't make a mess with that blood.
Genuinely laughing at this one. The wife heard me from outside in the garden . Confused with the Professionals LOL. I well remember some mad as in totally bonkers teachers.An education in an overheating asbestos prefab and a wooden chalkboard wiper to the skull if you dared loosen or remove any clothing in the heat.
Never did me any harm. I learned to live with the palsy.
1976 was actually the year all the metal framed window panes kept exploding.
No cordon, no fuss, the teaching went on, just brush the shards out your hair dear and don't make a mess with that blood.
Edited by anonymous-user on Thursday 22 June 17:45
HD Adam said:
A Poofy Schoolboy said:
"We're not allowed to wear shorts, and I'm not sitting in trousers all day, it's a bit hot."
Ah, diddums.1976 was my last year of school. I managed to survive till the end of term in long trousers.
Presumably some of these boys will end up in jobs with a dress code too. How will they manage?
This is why people end up on zero hours contracts
The world seems suddenly full of people wanting to interfere and complain on behalf of other people.
School uniform is a little bit ridiculous though. Not the idea of uniform itself, but the format of it. Why blazers and ties? Why make kids uncomfortable for no good reason at all? There is no reason on God's Earth why it has to be so formal. Finland tops the education tables year in, year out and I don't think they have uniform at all? Might be wrong about that.
Mandalore said:
HD Adam said:
A Poofy Schoolboy said:
"We're not allowed to wear shorts, and I'm not sitting in trousers all day, it's a bit hot."
Ah, diddums.1976 was my last year of school. I managed to survive till the end of term in long trousers.
Presumably some of these boys will end up in jobs with a dress code too. How will they manage?
This is why people end up on zero hours contracts
The world seems suddenly full of people wanting to interfere and complain on behalf of other people.
5% of me admires their chutzpah - if you're going to be defiant, do it with style; this is so much better than the usual scenario of fat Kyle and his heavily tattooed swamp-donkey of a thirteen-years-his-elder mother with their sad faces on the front page of the Mirror because his ooman rites have been infringed
someone said:
The world seems suddenly full of people wanting to interfere and complain on behalf of other people.
Or perhaps there are just many more people now who are perfectly able to look at a situation and say, actually that's a bunch of ks and there's no genuine reason to enforce an inequal dress code, so to speak, during the hottest period on record for decades.I once had to suffer the injustice of having to work in an office (during unusually high summer temps) with no air conditioning!! AND LONG TROUSERS - can you believe such a thing? The very inhumanity of it!! So I took the decision to wear shorts to work and got b
ked, then a memo went round giving us permission to wear shorts and temp aircon was installed - result!Edited by ReaderScars on Thursday 22 June 22:19
Nanook said:
HD Adam said:
A Poofy Schoolboy said:
"We're not allowed to wear shorts, and I'm not sitting in trousers all day, it's a bit hot."
Ah, diddums.1976 was my last year of school. I managed to survive till the end of term in long trousers.
Presumably some of these boys will end up in jobs with a dress code too. How will they manage?
This is why people end up on zero hours contracts
But if you can't cope wearing long trousers in hot weather, you are being a bit of a poof
None of these kids will grow up to be a powerfully built, PH stylee director.
"Ah diddums"
"can't cope"
So hardened adults have air con in offices and are grateful for it, and would have it fixed/replaced pronto if it packed up in unusually hot weather, but people of school age are weak or effeminate for wanting to work in a reasonable temperature - it that what you're saying?
"can't cope"
So hardened adults have air con in offices and are grateful for it, and would have it fixed/replaced pronto if it packed up in unusually hot weather, but people of school age are weak or effeminate for wanting to work in a reasonable temperature - it that what you're saying?
ReaderScars said:
"Ah diddums"
"can't cope"
So hardened adults have air con in offices and are grateful for it, and would have it fixed/replaced pronto if it packed up in unusually hot weather, but people of school age are weak or effeminate for wanting to work in a reasonable temperature - it that what you're saying?
Just part of the campaign against younger people that flows throughout the Mail and PH. "can't cope"
So hardened adults have air con in offices and are grateful for it, and would have it fixed/replaced pronto if it packed up in unusually hot weather, but people of school age are weak or effeminate for wanting to work in a reasonable temperature - it that what you're saying?
ETA - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-4038329...
Good for them.
Edited by xjay1337 on Friday 23 June 15:40
ReaderScars said:
someone said:
The world seems suddenly full of people wanting to interfere and complain on behalf of other people.
Or perhaps there are just many more people now who are perfectly able to look at a situation and say, actually that's a bunch of ks and there's no genuine reason to enforce an inequal dress code, so to speak, during the hottest period on record for decades.Edited by ReaderScars on Thursday 22 June 22:19
Or people who go along in life not questioning or challenging anything at all..
mikal83 said:
We wore shorts at primary school then at big boys school, ( a grammer), it was black trousers, black shoes/socks. White shirt and blazer with school tie. If it was declared hot, then the tie came off as did the blazer and sleeves were rolled up.
In the RN when summer was declared the heating boilers were switched off, no matter the weather/temp!
Do you mean you went to a Grammar school?In the RN when summer was declared the heating boilers were switched off, no matter the weather/temp!
I'm sorry, I'm not normally pedantic but going to a Grammar School and not being able to spell Grammar.......
xjay1337 said:
Just part of the campaign against younger people that flows throughout the Mail and PH.
ETA - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-4038329...
Good for them.
I'm impressed from the pic that they're managing to keep straight faces for the camera - bet the girls didn't!ETA - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-4038329...
Good for them.
ReaderScars said:
xjay1337 said:
Just part of the campaign against younger people that flows throughout the Mail and PH.
ETA - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-4038329...
Good for them.
I'm impressed from the pic that they're managing to keep straight faces for the camera - bet the girls didn't!ETA - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-4038329...
Good for them.
ReaderScars said:
"Ah diddums"
"can't cope"
So hardened adults have air con in offices and are grateful for it, and would have it fixed/replaced pronto if it packed up in unusually hot weather, but people of school age are weak or effeminate for wanting to work in a reasonable temperature - it that what you're saying?
Pretty much, yes."can't cope"
So hardened adults have air con in offices and are grateful for it, and would have it fixed/replaced pronto if it packed up in unusually hot weather, but people of school age are weak or effeminate for wanting to work in a reasonable temperature - it that what you're saying?
Not every office has air con.
Get over yourself, it's not even that hot. I doubt anyone ever got heatstroke from wearing trousers.
I certainly havent.
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