Post a Comment. This story about the schoolgirl whose skirt was too short has, I'm almost ashamed to say, made me laugh. The reason? If kids don't take a blind bit of notice when parents and teachers try to enforce school rules on them in the correct way - ie, telling them to via their own natural authority - then a spot of insulting in front of the other kids is as good a way as any to do it.
This girl, aged just 13, had been told countless times to stop rolling her skirt up to show off more leg. She ignored the instruction, presumably thanks to the dangerous knowledge that schoolchildren have today of their 'rights' and that the tendency today for modern parents to blindly support their child, even when they are blatantly flouting school regulations, rather than give them the bollocking they deserve.
Okay, so wearing a skirt too short is hardly comparable a felony to daubing the C-word on the deputy headmaster's office door in indelible paint, which is what one lad in my year did. He was heavily punished. The other 15 year olds in the building laughed a lot. But it's a rule, like any other.
Rules are there for a reason, and teachers are there to uphold the school rules so that disruption of lessons is minimised. A girl with a skirt too short holds up the entire learning process because every hormonal lad is staring at her legs rather than their textbooks, and every girl is jealously sniping to her friend that this leggy, 'developed' teenager is in fact something rather more sinister ie, something they really want to be but haven't the nerve or the build to carry off.
Not ideal for a crucial minute lesson in which the atomic numbers of the inert gases have to be learned. The teacher said, in desperation, that this girl looked like a 'slut' and that the shortened skirt 'does not do much for your cellulite'. Yet this teacher is being castigated. Okay, maybe it was unprofessional, but any school which kicks out a pupil, even temporarily, because she is showing too much thigh will be widely criticised for being so petty, so a short, sharp shock - even a verbal one - is good in the long term.
