They’ll frighten the horses
Maybe they should just drug them, or lock them up?
Girls who want to wear pants or shorts at a Southland high school have to see a guidance counsellor first.
James Hargest College in Invercargill is in the process of updating its uniform but in the meantime, girls who want to wear unisex pants or shorts must have it cleared by their parents. To do that, they are required to visit a counsellor.
But wearing trousers is just…wearing trousers. I do it every day without any counseling at all.
Principal Andy Wood said the talk with a guidance counsellor first was to make sure they had “thought through the possible reactions of other kids” if they wore the pants or shorts. He did not expand on what those reactions might be.
Has Principal Andy Wood been outside at any time over the past 100 years or so? Because girls in trousers are really not such an unusual sight now.
H/t Rob
You all just have no idea how much my mind boggled when I read that…
Trousers! Eeeeeeeek!!!
Oh, he must mean this:
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/funny-clown-red-pants-bubbles-standing-180821843
Seriously? That sounds like my school…in the 1960s! (and early 1970s…by the time I got to high school, girls were allowed to wear pants to school. First it was matching pantsuits – hi, Hillary! – then by the time I got to actual high school, we were allowed to wear jeans. (I have been told by a young friend of mine – he was born in the 1990s – that this is not true, that time was too regressive to allow girls to wear pants. It is his generation that has moved us forward).
So, my High School (State run as most are in NZ) allowed girls to wear shorts or trousers starting in 1980. That happened at the same time that they loosened up a lot of rules around uniforms, basically allowing people to mix and match any uniform item with another to allow a degree of individual taste and preference. The thought that this discussion is occurring 40 years later…
You know who never wore trousers?
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Jesus.
What, if anything, happens if any of the boys wear skirts or dresses?
Let me guess. They’re brave and stunning?
YNnB, another School in the region has already made its uniform a combined one. Lots of girls chose to use trousers, no boys opted for dresses.
Well, next year wearing trousers will qualify you for forced puberty-blocking drugs.
Well it is Southland, which is fairly conservative. Still, seems astonishingly archaic.
My high school was in Oklahoma, one of the most conservative places in the US (which is saying something), and they allowed girls to wear trousers in 1974 – by 1975, girls were allowed to wear jeans. And tee shirts! So, yeah, astonishingly archaic.
My graduating class was probably the first group ever of girls showing up for their mandatory Home Ec classes in blue jeans.
My highschool was in suburban Toronto, *not* one of the most conservative places in Canada, but it still took until about 1972 for girls to be allowed trousers, and another few years for jeans to be permitted for girls or boys. (And in 1975, girls were still not allowed to take electronics, though microbiology was apparently considered sufficiently ladylike; perhaps because it was hard to ignore the fact that the microbiology teacher was a woman.)