UK school bans shorts, says boys should wear skirts

A school has said boys who
find trousers too hot in the
summer months should
instead wear a skirt as part of
a "gender-neutral" uniform
policy. Chiltern Edge Secondary
School in Oxfordshire in the
UK has banned boys from
wearing shorts and insists
those who don't want to wear
trousers must don a skirt, reports the Daily Mail. Leaders at the school in
Sonning Common introduced
a "more formal" uniform policy
at the beginning of the
academic year that stipulated
that the only leg wear permitted was trousers or
skirts. After the change, parent
Alastair Vince-Porteous asked
staff if his son could wear
tailored shorts – but the school
said that they were not part of
the uniform. The bemused father was then told that the
uniform policy was "gender-
neutral" and boys could of
course wear a skirt if they
wished.-NZherald