Shorts a done deal

In a significant win for monkey bar acrobatics and schoolyard democracy, 7-year-old

has successfully petitioned her school for the right to ditch her pinafore uniform in favour of shorts during summer. Kayleigh, who goes to Dunedin’s St Francis Xavier Catholic School, wrote to the principal and board outlining her frustrations with the pinafore’s limitations, and detailing her case for shorts. Kayleigh said it was unfair boys could wear shorts while girls could not. School principal Carmel Jolly said: ‘‘Part of our vision is to develop students who are confident problem-solvers, and Kayleigh is certainly that. She had stated her reasons so perfectly clearly that it just made sense to us, we did not know why it had not happened before.’’ Kayleigh said she had enjoyed the change to shorts. ‘‘I can hang upside down, I can be free.’’ –RNZ

Kayleigh Dryden

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