NI students launch campaign calling for girls to be allowed to wear trousers at school

https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/education/ni-students-launch-campaign-calling-for-girls-to-be-allowed-to-wear-trousers-at-school/a483742458.html

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12 comments

  1. Sounds sensible. Maybe we can also have the boys be able to wear shorts in summer, so they don’t have to wear their sister’s skirts for a newspaper article. Altho it seems like a tradition at this point.

  2. To be fair girls at my school wore trousers so tight and so high up you could see their coochie, I’m not surprised those tight trousers were banned. It was just inappropriate

  5. Wait this is still a thing in NI? I thought we got rid of that in UK when i was in school 20 years ago

  6. Christ, just let the kids wear shorts, trousers or skirts, no one really gives a shit. At this point it’s just clinging on to some dumb rules just for the sake of having a little bit of power. It’s no wonder you get those weird parents that hate school and instill that in their kids.

    It’s a place of learning, they should learn to get with the times

  7. This is already allowed

    Source: My daughter does.

  8. Ditch blazers too. My school got rid of them the year I started (coincidentally, reintroduced them the year after I left) and they had no impact on behaviour whatsoever; we were still a shit school on a council estate at the end of the day. Just sticking with a jumper was good enough and it was one less uniform battle the teachers had to fight. The jumpers were cheaper than blazers too, so poorer families were not put out as much.

  9. People should be allowed to wear comfortable clothes. Why is this ever a debate

  10. Come on we even let Peter rabbit wear trousers and he’s a rabbit.

  11. I’m surprised gendered uniforms are still legal in the UK in 2025. They should absolutely be banned and I don’t see why this even needs to be up for debate.

  12. This brings back memories: during the early 1990s, I was a pupil at an English State School and one year was nominated School Council representative. One perennial item was “Trousers for girls in winter”, to which the response was always to bring in examples of the kind of trousers they’d like to wear – all of which were apparently rejected as unsuitable.

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