Allow all students to wear trousers and school shorts as part of school uniform.

Rejected 11 signatures

What the petition asks

Trousers for many girls are more practical and comfortable enforcing the wearing of skirts plays into a misogynistic sterotype of feminity that is not longer useful and potentially harmful.

Both boys & girls should be allowed to wear shorts in summer to get enough Vitamin D which comes from sunlight between April and September between the hours 11am - 3pm when children are at school.

https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/healthy-body/how-to-get-vitamin-d-from-sunlight/

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/jun/22/teenage-boys-wear-skirts-to-school-protest-no-shorts-uniform-policy

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-126456/School-face-court-girls-wear-trousers.html

Why it was rejected

It asked for something that is not the responsibility of the UK Government or Parliament.

We can't accept your petition as its about something the UK Government and Parliament are not responsible for. This would be the responsibility of the school.

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Timeline

8 Apr 2019	Petition opened for signatures
30 Apr 2019	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 11

Status Rejected

Rejected 30 Apr 2019

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