Connecticut Catholic School Banning Skirts from Uniform

if you've got a problem with the school uniforms...don't send your kid to that school...it's pretty simple

I was reading though this, and it's silly. As a few others stated, girls will find other ways to do the same thing, or, at least, the same effect. When I was in school, and had to wear a uniform, the girls who didn't wear the jumpers and skirts, spent their time tugging down their collars, and wearing pants that would put most skinny jeans to shame.

Uniforms are just SAD no matter what they look like!

"Nancy Owens, who crafted the petition, said she too prefers the current recognizable plaid girls uniforms. "I don't want my kid looking like a magnet school kid," she said. " Good grief, what a complete snob!

I miss the days when the catholic high school girls I dated wore Skirts, garterbelts and nylons...ah!...for the good old days!

basically they don't want to enforce the current rules so to make things easier for themselves they just ban the skirts all together. Way to teach the kids to take the easy way out.

When they graduate, they can take the skirts up a little higher for their strip club job.

Very good idea. The khaki pant and button down long sleeve shirtlook just great.Corpus Christi, Texas has this dress code, What is wrong, one less worry for sisters.

I feel sorry for the girl in the photo. I think it was a bit harsh to have removed her hands to prevent her from rolling up her skirt.

If we rolled our skirts the nuns would punish us severely. Only 'bad' girls did that. Maybe today's girls aren't scared of nuns anymore...

you americans are sooooo uptight...

LOl! Girls are still rolling up their skirts?? I used to do that when I was in catholic school, except we rolled our skirts down before we walked through the doors!

Wonder why they don't transition the new outfits..? Give everyone 2 years to wear out the other ones. I wore uniforms all through high school and I loved it. No more trying to keep up with the other kids with more money. I went thru high school with 2 uniforms!!

Why not allow the option of khakis OR skirts? Students who continuously break the rules and roll their skirts, don't get to wear skirts. Leave the other kids alone.

Well, this is just another example of the many being punished for the acts of the few. Instead of parents being upset that their daughters will look less feminine, they should be upset that some girls chose to look like #$%$

Typical political correctness, don't address the individual that is the problem but change a rule to penalize everyone.

Nancy Owens, who crafted the petition, said she too prefers the current recognizable plaid girls uniforms. "I don't want my kid looking like a magnet school kid," she said.

Hey Nancy- I could think of worse things than looking like a "magnet school kid"

Why aren't the mothers taking on the girls who would roll their skirts?

Seriously, "magnet school kid"?! I go to public school and I dont behave or act like that, whatever it is. I don't agree with removing the skirts because its more costly in this time of economic distress and i do agree with the banning of the hemline, but reallly. Why now?

I attended (and graduated from) a different Catholic school in New Haven. We proudly wore our school's uniform. Each school's uniform was unique and we were recognized wherever we went. I hate to see that tradition go by the wayside. Yes, we tried rolling our skirts, and were quickly corrected by our teachers and parents. Wouldn't it be easier to correct the girls that need correcting than to do away with the skirts entirely? I do hope that they reconsider the change to slacks.