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Skirts for boys at private Highgate School under plans for gender-neutral uniform
telegraph ^ | May 14, 2017 | Olivia Rudgard

Posted on 05/14/2017 6:21:58 PM PDT by Morgana

A north London private school has drawn up plans to introduce gender-neutral uniforms in response to a growing number of pupils questioning their gender identity.

Highgate school currently has an option for girls to wear a grey pleated skirt, but the school is consulting on a mix-and-match uniform policy which will not specify a different requirement for boys and girls.

Girls can currently wear grey trousers or skirts as well as the dark blue jackets and ties which make up the rest of the uniform. Boys may not wear a skirt and also have to wait until they are 16 to wear earrings.

Adam Pettitt, headmaster at the school, told the Sunday Times: "This generation is really questioning [if we are] being binary in the way we look at things."

He said some former pupils had complained about the changes. "They write in and say if you left children to their own devices they would grow up differently and you are promoting the wrong ideas," he said.

Some parents did not know that their children were questioning their gender identity, he added, forcing the school to mediate between parents and pupils.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Education
KEYWORDS: arth; britain; education; homosexualagenda; london
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To: Morgana
Boys may not wear a skirt and also have to wait until they are 16 to wear earrings.

Is Edward Lear writing the school regs. The sentance is grammatical, but just doesn't make any sense.

21 posted on 05/14/2017 6:58:54 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: sushiman

...It’s a Small, Small World.


22 posted on 05/14/2017 7:01:10 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Morgana

If the parents do not have everyone at this school that supports this crap on their backs and a boot on their throat and a gun to their head....OK this is UK so maybe scissors or tweezers to their heads. Make them explain to your satisfaction why this is good or OFF them.


23 posted on 05/14/2017 7:04:18 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Morgana
The End

This is the end, Beautiful friend

This is the end, My only friend, the end

Of our elaborate plans, the end, Of everything that stands, the end

No safety or surprise, the end, I'll never look into your eyes...again

Can you picture what will be, So limitless and free

Desperately in need...of some...stranger's hand, In a...desperate land

Lost in a Roman...wilderness of pain, And all the children are insane

All the children are insane, Waiting for the summer rain, yeah

There's danger on the edge of town, Ride the King's highway, baby

Weird scenes inside the gold mine, Ride the highway west, baby

Ride the snake, ride the snake, To the lake, the ancient lake, baby

The snake is long, seven miles, Ride the snake...he's old, and his skin is cold

. . . Jim Morrison, The Doors

24 posted on 05/14/2017 7:05:21 PM PDT by saywhatagain
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To: Morgana

25 posted on 05/14/2017 7:06:03 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Morgana
Are they going to make the boys sit down to urinate?

I mean...that's how it's done in Sweden.

26 posted on 05/14/2017 7:26:56 PM PDT by Savage Beast (MegaMAGA!)
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To: Morgana

Just let the boys wear kilts. Even Utilikilts would be an option.


27 posted on 05/14/2017 7:33:41 PM PDT by Disambiguator (Keepin' it analog.)
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To: Morgana

Learning to say no to idiot authority is becoming a valuable skill.


28 posted on 05/14/2017 7:36:38 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Morgana

29 posted on 05/14/2017 7:44:12 PM PDT by buridan (I will apologize to nobody for using every tool we can)
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To: buridan

Looks like it came from the Benny Hill show


30 posted on 05/14/2017 8:01:48 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: mfish13

“Donald, Where’s your Trousers”
Now I went down to London Town
And I had some fun in the underground
The ladies turned their heads around
Saying, Donald, where are your trousers
Let the wind blow high
Let the wind blow low
Through the streets
In my kilt, I’ll go
All the lassies shout, go, go
Donald, where’s your troosers


31 posted on 05/14/2017 8:08:34 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Morgana

Awaiting London’s muzzie mayor to comment... Still waiting... Drumming fingers...


32 posted on 05/14/2017 8:16:10 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Doogle

LOL


33 posted on 05/14/2017 8:21:42 PM PDT by Slyfox (Where's Reagan when we need him? Look in the mirror - the spirit of The Gipper lives within you.)
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To: Morgana

queer teachers who want to see little boys in skirts- and parents are ok with that?


34 posted on 05/14/2017 8:33:53 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: Morgana

Are they going to stop using computers, because they use binary?


35 posted on 05/14/2017 9:04:11 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: Morgana

How many reading this story simply shake their head, then bring their child(ren) right back to their local government school on Monday morning? Almost all? Where is all the conservative outrage and activism on this issue?? Threads related to health care rightly get hundreds of responses. Education? It seems rare that we even get 30-40 posts.


36 posted on 05/14/2017 9:06:16 PM PDT by SecAmndmt (Arm yourselves!)
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To: Doogle

Excellent GIF.


37 posted on 05/14/2017 9:09:08 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: Morgana

War against men/masculinity continues unabated.

This school also just outed itself. Not fit to teach one single kid. Not fit to receive one penny of tuition.


38 posted on 05/14/2017 10:46:07 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: txrefugee

That is interesting.

Out of 4 nephews, the two raised by a real man, my brother, I’d want to avoid in a fight at my fat age of 49

Michael Caesar is a BIG ex Ofensive Guard and just tough. Now he is working at the Brooklyn ADA at 26.

Stephen, the younger brother, is a non steroid beast who (though I dont approve at all) pulled a bar door off its hinges. Ex offensive lineman and solid at 240 and tough.
He’s been offered bouncing jobs while in college but mom says no.

The ones raised by my sister and THEIR husbands, forget about it.

One’s a snowflake, him and his hippy fiance.

The other one’s a good kid and is HARD right wing. But would fold like a tent in a fight.

There’s enough real men to raise new real men, I think still. But NOT LIKE the WWII fathers.

My pop was tough. After he punished my brother, he punished me just in case I was in on whatever my brother did, even if it was physically impossible :)

He was a great guy. Didn’t beat us but a slap here and there when we needed it.


39 posted on 05/15/2017 1:00:10 AM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust Conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Morgana

Insist that the boys sit with legs crossed. And wear underwear.


40 posted on 05/15/2017 1:05:21 AM PDT by Yaelle
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