Too Short Too Soon?

Okay, so again I've been a little bit too busy but this time it was doing things I enjoy, but as I was watching TV this morning a segment came on the show about school girls wearing short skirts and how one school had banned skirts meaning girls must wear trousers. At the moment where I live it is in the mid to high twenties (Celsius) and clearly I would not be wearing Teflon trousers. 

Luckily I bid farewell to my school uniform 3 years ago, but to be honest, apart from the first 1 maybe 2 years of secondary school I didn't really follow the uniform anyway for a lot of different reasons, and I totally understand that me wearing a short skirt for the last year wasn't really 'appropriate'. However the reason the school has banned skirts is because it is  'too distracting for male teachers or pupils when the girls walk up stairs or sit down' I have 2 BIG issues with this statement. Firstly, why are they lookin? are we accepting a 'look but don't touch' policy. If that girl is wearing a uniform she is likely under 16 anyway, which makes it illegal and if she's too young to wear it as people say she's too young to be sexualised. Also why is it acceptable for a male teacher to wear a tight shirt but a female is seen as 'distracting' if she wears a short skirt because its too hot, or that's how she feels comfortable. I get there is children dressing too sexy, too soon but if we have a standard for one gender, there should be equal standards for the other gender. 

I understand rules are rules and in the 'real' world as school refers to it, there are consequences if you don't follow them, but what some teachers/people in general don't seem to understand is that the length of a skirt does not equal the person's IQ. Also people are bound to experiment with there style, its natural. I wore a short skirt, red lipstick and skinny jeans as part of my uniform. I also wore neon accessories for a while. Non of that makes me a bad person. Wearing a short skirt didn't mean I wanted people too look at me, it simply meant I wanted to wear a short skirt. My other issue with this is people are moaning that you can see a girls underwear with a short skirt or a tight skirt not if you wear tights or are careful (but again why look?), however if a gust of wind comes along, you can wear a long skirt and see a girls underwear.

Also, judging a young person is just as bad sometimes, that person may have finally gained some confidence, and you may have just torn them again. You can also blame the parents but when I first started wearing my skirt to school, I changed in the school toilets, so my mum never knew until I came home in the skirt, by which time it was far too late. It is also clear that me wearing jeans or a short skirt didn't impact my education or my ability to learn until it was brought up and I argued with the teacher. However its about discretion, I don't think its appropriate for primary school or even early secondary school children to be dressing provocative, but after a certain age, there isn't much you can do, they'll wear what they want, and by saying 'You must change for a man' its not really improving the situation or society. 

I also don't believe we would have this issue if females were not used as sexual objects. We seem to have this debate every summer, and every summer it sparks up the same response, which is fine put rules into place, but I know for me personally, if you'd have told me what to wear I'd of done the exact opposite, which I did, most of the time. Why can't school girls who are in there last ear of compulsory school wear what they like rather than be told there something they're not just because of what they wear? Or why can't men just grow up and deal with it rather than forcing girls to change what they wear or who they are?