How do you feel about the way schools often seek to control how girls dress

@Celine see you said it right there.."boys and girls will never stop trying to look good for each other", both sexes are going through puberty, hormones are racing and that is not the time or place to put it under even more pressure..again it's about learning and discipline the same thing we get from our parents so just deal with it..you have plenty of years to dress as you like and if you talk to these many girls in later years they regret many of their choices because of how they were perceived, you can't ignore it , it happens..

@Celine let's face it girls dress that way to get attention however you try and pull the "we should be able to dress how we like for ourselves" is utter bs..it's just how you said we will never stop trying to look good for each other..once we have the experience we realise what's important and its not how much flesh you show..and they are definitely not the kind of girls guys like to take home to meet their mother, just look at the surveys guys tell it how it is, those girls are the good time girls not the keepers.

@Celine Sure. It's safety. But it also reflects poor judgement and a lack of introspection.

@Celine I'm pretty sure if schools didn't have that in place, some students would show up wearing that..lol.

@SW-User I have but Im from Hawaii. Those guys get sent home anyways.

@Celine When they walk onto school??? Yes it is. Just like going to work.

@Sharon here its all pretty reasonably priced and most stuff will last until its grown out of and can be passed down

@Footballstar Is that the Republic of Ireland? Here, in England, a lot of schools see uniforms as a cash cow and another way for power crazed headteachers to exercise control over students and their parents.

@Sharon yeah in Ireland

also to point out its tank tops she doesnt like cause of " its distracting" nothing is showing aside from shoulders

@Celine boys will be boys.

@Celine I think you should be controlled ;)

@Celine 🤦... sorry, you dont get what im sayin, have a nice day

@Celine I don't think they try to.I hope not at least.

@Davidarendale0

BuullllllSHIT buddy.
When i was in highchool did i look at girls? All the time. Did i look at them when their skin was exposed? All the time. Did i look at them when their skin was not exposed? All the time.

And yet i still managed to do well enough on my tests and assignments. Because we can still fucking function even if you can see a girl's thigh!🙄

@Soccergirl2016

Sorry, are you under the impression that if you have wood you can no longer function?
And yeah, of course they got erections. They were teenage boys. Riding in the frigging car or making cereal could give me a boner at that age.

The point here is twofold:

1) Guys do not become helpless horny zombies incapable of concentration if a girl wears a short skirt. Not to mention this pretends that guys are only distracted by girls when they have revealing clothing. NOT the case, i assure you.

2) Even if some guys have trouble concentrating then that is their issue. It is up to them to learn self control. It is unjust to control how an entire gender may dress so that a few horny guys aren't exposed to their distracting flesh.

@Soccergirl2016

The reason girls try to be attractive is to be attractive to boys......yes....and?
Did you feel that was a rebuttal to either of the points i just made?

Teenagers are trying to be attractive to other teenagers?!
Shocker. Maybe we should make sure they have a demur hair style or can't wear jewelry, makeup or perfume. OH OH OH! Get them in some burkas so that we're not encouraging girls to give their poor classmates boners!

Come on, dude

@Clairebare well when it was hot it sort of was, would have liked the option of shorts or something

@Celine i liked it to be honest, one less thing to worry about every day

@Celine exactly!

@mathsman Libraries and schools are both council provided and funded services, free to their users. How about college? They provide educational facilities just like schools. In some cases for a fee (same as private schools) and sometimes the fee waived or publicly funded like a state school.

Students are similar to customers in that they use a service for which the provider is paid. Maybe a better analogy would be with a health centre's patients. Are you required to wear a uniform to visit your GP? I'm not. :)

@Sharon Minors are "required" to attend school. That's the significant difference.

@mathsman Even if that were true (it isn't) I don't see what difference it makes. It sounds very much like saying it's OK to exploit parents because they're unable to shop around for a better deal.

Parents have to provide their children with an education, not necessarily send them to school. Local authorities are required to provide suitable facilities, [b]free at point of use[/b]. By forcing parents to buy overpriced uniforms form designated suppliers in order to us those facilities, they are, in effect, charging a fee for them.

@Celine Well when you describe miniskirts it's only natural to address them. Sorry, but just going on your descriptions.

Your use of passive-aggression makes the my emotional remark hold weight.

@Celine [quote]It is unfair because they're being controlled and boys are not. Why is that?[/quote]

I don't know about where you are but here, in the UK, boys and men face far more restrictions on how they dress than women do.

What we really need is teachers who spend their time and are capable of doing the jobs they're paid for, not wasting time imposing petty, pointless and stupid rules. Students have been known to be sent home because they were wearing the wrong colour socks!.