Schoolboys banned from wearing shorts on hottest day use loophole, wear skirts

[Rotted]

While amusing, all this over 32C? That's a cool day around here.

Here that's insanely hot,

Tbh, I'd be straight into the school playing fuck if I had a kid and they came home and told me they'd be punished for that. Our school had the same rules, same type of person in charge , some summer days were insane, but shorts weren't allowed we didn't mind to much that being said, we were still out running like idiots all the time and we had access to water machines everywhere.

Example of the guys rules, you had a full weeks detention (staying inside with the head deputy every break and lunch time) if you wore white socks instead of black socks. You'd be allowed to go get lunch on the first day, but he'd escort you there and back, then tell you to bring pack lunch rest of the week or go without any good, then made you write lines. The following break / day he'd either make you re write the same section over and over to maximise boredom, or give you another weeks detention if you hadn't finished copying up a book.

[Reeve]

Sounds like a truly hellish place. My prayers are with you.

Everyone spends all day in air conditioning. So long as you don't go outside for the 3 summer months, it's fine.

[Azadina]

It's sad to see a traditionalist approach to school dress policy banning boys from wearing shorts in hot weather, but it's good to see these kids being flexible with there gender identity in order to highlight the absurdity of traditionalism.

I would say they didn't feel insecure about their identity, and thus could do that with no problem. It's pretty funny too, how they found a way around silly restrictions.

[Spl4sh3r]

I don't remember the height difference being that big when you are 14.

[Jrealness]

90 isn't a cool day anywhere, even in places where it isn't unusual. Though it's a bit worse where I am now because humidity makes that fatal temperatures.

I'd kill for highs in the 90s right now. Welcome to Hel-I mean Phoenix.

[Mihalik]

It's cool relative to typical summer temps. It's been 38C+ here for the last several weeks, with heat indexes pushing 50C.

I live in Madrid, Spain. Average temperatures here are upwards of 38+ as well. Tho there are a number of things that make it more tolerable. For example the absence of stupid dress codes like the one discussed in the article.

Also one has to admit 38C dry heat is quite a bit different than heat in high humidity. Which is just fucking horrible.

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I'd kill for highs in the 90s right now. Welcome to Hel-I mean Phoenix.

Stop living in deserts :P

[Unholyground]

While amusing, all this over 32C? That's a cool day around here.

The human body adapts differently for everyone, people not used to that kind of heat can die from it. Similar to how I can go out in minus 25c-35c in the snow with no shirt bare feet and be fine.

[Mihalik]

I don't remember the height difference being that big when you are 14.

I was 175 at 13/14. Which meant I was about a head taller than my classmates. My GF's little sister is 14 and around 170. Her other sister 13 is around 150.

So yeah, kids can and do grow at wildly different rates sometimes.

[Spryte]

Everyone spends all day in air conditioning. So long as you don't go outside for the 3 summer months, it's fine.

We don't have air conditioning in Britain, we have radiators instead. ������

[klogaroth]

32^oC may be normal to some, but it's not all that normal in the UK. It's rare enough that most schools, including the one from the story, do not have air conditioning. They only have heating systems.

All you can do is open a window.

Probably with one of these:

[zorkuus]

school uniforms are retarded

Thread over.

[Tijuana]

From the name I doubt this is a private school, school uniforms are pretty common throughout Britain.

In mine we had to wear a blazer and tie (with the top button of the shirt done up) at all times during the schoolday unless we had explicit authority to remove them and they rarely gave authority.

Only an administrator could come up with the code that lead these boys in the picture to button the top button on a polo shirt.

[OrcsRLame]

While amusing, all this over 32C? That's a cool day around here.

Climate acclimatization. Over time your body undergoes changes to help you deal with your current climate. In other words, make someone live in the arctic for 3 months, then stick them in 70F weather for 2 hours with no water and watch them die of heatstroke.

[Ciddy]

Gotta do what you gotta do. It does seem kind of shitty that the school can't make exceptions during particularly hot weather.

I went to public school in the US and don't remember the dress code being too strict. The only particularly dumb thing I remember about it was a "boys can't wear hats, but girls can" policy.

[Kalis]

Doesn't say boys can't wear them, just says that girls can. Probably the loophole they used.

It says trousers are compulsory for boys, whereas trousers are optional for girls. I only linked one part.

I assumed they had just used the term students in the uniform code and the boys were using that as a loophole, but it specifies the sex, at least on their website.

http://www.longhill.org.uk/school-information/uniform/

[Noradin]

It says trousers are compulsory for boys, whereas trousers are optional for girls. I only linked one part.

I assumed they had just used the term students in the uniform code and the boys were using that as a loophole, but it specifies the sex, at least on their website.

http://www.longhill.org.uk/school-information/uniform/

Yes, but there is likely another rule somewhere that states discrimination based on sex and gender is not allowed.

[zorkuus]

Yes, but there is likely another rule somewhere that states discrimination based on sex and gender is not allowed.

They are boys. Does not apply.

[Leyre]

All i could think off

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there mom should be proud and the dad happy , i am sure its a normal white family were they enjoy big arab men immigrants and cuck fetishes
mom is training the boys to became good and loyal

Infracted - trolling

[Azadina]

Tbh, this being a daily mail story, I though it must be a tale of "PC gone mad", but that doesn't really fit.

Turns out it's a "males suffer discrimination to you know" story.

The most interesting thing in this story is the pic. The diversity of physical form amongst 14 year old boys in Brighton is truly surprising. The only thing they have in common is big ears.

It is. Two of them look closer to 5, than 14.