Temperatures rise as school orders girls to wear tights in hot spell
PUPILS and parents at a leading city school are complaining that girls have to wear tights with skirts, despite the baking hot temperatures.
One mum, whose daughter is a pupil at Cardiff High School, said: “All the girls have to wear tights and the boys can wear shorts.
“It’s 30°C degrees outside and the girls are all fed up with it.
“They said girls can wear shorts but the only shorts they have been offered are boys’ shorts, so it’s not very fair.”
The mum, who did not wish to be identified, said senior teachers were intercepting girls without tights at the school gates and putting them together.
Pupils have set up an online petition to protest at the policy.
It had attracted more than 350 signatures on the Change.org website by yesterday evening.
Another woman said her niece was allegedly taken out of a mock GCSE exam and told to put on a pair of tights.
“They said it’s because of modesty but I think it’s really unfair,” she said.
“My niece is a sensible girl and their skirts aren’t short, they’re modest enough.
“I think it’s bad. Especially in this heat. They have to wear thick tights as well – 50 denier.”
Headteacher Stephen Jones denied claims from one of the parents that girls had been told the reason for wearing tights was that boys would look up girls’ skirts.
He said: “Unlike most schools, our uniform policy includes school shorts and a summer polo shirt which the children can choose to wear, so there’s no need for them to come to school in their PE kits.
“For many years we’ve agreed that girls can choose for themselves the style of skirts they wear.
“Part of that agreement was for tights to be worn with skirts. No one has said that