Down the glass staircase

One the one hand boys who “identify as” girls and take their athletic prizes, on the other hand boys who shove cameras up girls’ skirts.

A school vowed to take action after sixth form students expressed fury over a reported “upskirting” incident on a spiral staircase.

A group of male students were allegedly caught taking photographs up the skirts of girls using the transparent glass staircase, in the centre of the sixth form canteen area, at Broughton Hall Catholic High School on Friday.

What kind of complete idiot puts a transparent staircase in a mixed-sex school?

Some students told the ECHO that girls have been advised to “wear shorts” under their skirts and were told there may be plans to install frosted glass panels at the West Derby school.

That sounds comfortable, and convenient, and not at all shaming, and not any kind of financial burden. Also brilliant to tell the girls wear an extra layer of clothes instead of telling the boys to stop being leering pervy female-hating shits.

The girls at the school say it’s been a problem for years, the officials at the school say this is the very first they’ve heard of it.

“It used to make us really uncomfortable. We would ask if we could wear trousers but we were told no, we had to wear skirts. There were girls sent home for coming in with trousers on.”

“You have to wear those garments that make it unpleasantly easy for boys to peer and photograph and grope and even rape. Them’s the rules.”

Several other young women who attended the school shared their disgust on social media.

One said: “Today I’m genuinely embarrassed to say I went to Broughton Hall high school and sixth form. In the sixth form building in the middle of the canteen there is a spiral staircase which has glass surrounding it.

“For years girls have said they feel uncomfortable walking down those stairs in skirts yet the school has done nothing about fixing that problem.

“It’s now been said that a group of around 15/20 lads have been sitting at the bottom of the stairs taking pictures of girls walking down them.”

And the adults running the school couldn’t figure out that this would happen because…they’re robots?

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