A Catholic School Bans Skirts From School Uniforms, Citing Bad Behavior: Let’s Discuss

Forget nuns with rulers enforcing a hemline regiment–at one Catholic school in Connecticut, they’re cutting out skirts completely because female students keep hiking ’em up too high!

According to Jezebel, “The surprisingly intense fracas started when the administration realized that older girls in the school were tramping up their uniforms by rolling their skirts’ waistbands and thus shortening the length of the hem…school officials decided to just scrap the skirts altogether and move onto khaki pants, an item of clothing I think we can universally agree makes everyone’s butt look equally weird.” They’ll be wearing the khakis with polo shirts, just like the male students, which some would call egalitarian progress–but parents are surprisingly upset about the break with tradition.

Some say eliminating the trademark plaid skirts makes their daughters unrecognizable as parochial school students, while others cited nothing more than “tradition” as a reason to maintain the old uniforms.

Did any of you ladies have to wear plaid skirts to Catholic school? Did you and your friends used to cheat with your hemlines, or were the rules strictly enforced? And do you think this school’s switch to khakis is a step in a better direction, or an unfair break in tradition? Read the full story at the New Haven Register, then discuss!

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Photo: The CW