School uniforms and ties

lazygal

Why do schools make female students wear ties? Since I left school I've never need to knot a tie. What's with schools thinking 'Girls need to wear ties, it's part of the uniform'? I know not every school requires a tie or indeed a uniform but why make girls wear them?

cantdecide

Maybe they'll grow up and join the army or start another career where they must wear some other uniform that would require a tie.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

it promotes uniformity and dampens the spirit of the bastard teenagers. I remember the few days we were allowed wear normal clothes in school there was a far more lively atmosphere about the place and even less than usual actually got done in class.

saying that **** ties. an uncomfortably warm, itchy and horrible looking uniform is fine but ties are a step too far.

pickarooney

It would be sexual discrimination not to enforce it for girls, surely?

summerskin

pickarooney wrote: »

It would be sexual discrimination not to enforce it for girls, surely?

it still exists in the workplace. the things women are allowed to wear to work are in no way comparable to men having to wear a shirt and tie. sandals in summer, ffs, when we have to wear shoes.

lazygal

pickarooney wrote: »

It would be sexual discrimination not to enforce it for girls, surely?

But what about all female schools? My school was female only.

SEPT 23 1989

No ties but much shorter skirts could be a possible solution

Franticfrank

Whatever about female students, it isn't much better to make male students wear a tie. Especially those who start school at 4. I remember some foreigners visiting and being shocked by it. Ties are not so comfortable...and not everybody wears one when they've finished school. What if your dream is working on an oil rig and your forced to wear a tie your whole young life? Madness.

kneemos

So they'll have something to spice up their sex lives when they've been married for ten years.

farmchoice

Franticfrank wrote: »

Whatever about female students, it isn't much better to make male students wear a tie. Especially those who start school at 4. I remember some foreigners visiting and being shocked by it. Ties are not so comfortable...and not everybody wears one when they've finished school. What if your dream is working on an oil rig and your forced to wear a tie your whole young life? Madness.

they must have be easily fcuking shocked.

cantdecide

Franticfrank wrote: »

Whatever about female students, it isn't much better to make male students wear a tie. Especially those who start school at 4. I remember some foreigners visiting and being shocked by it. Ties are not so comfortable...and not everybody wears one when they've finished school. What if your dream is working on an oil rig and your forced to wear a tie your whole young life? Madness.

Maybe they should make students wear boiler suits.

Frank Black

I work in a 'professional' company and there is a 'business attire' requirement. At a recent large meeting I was bored, so I looked around the table at the 20 or so other guys and noticed only one of them wearing a tie.
The fact that this guy is undoubtedly the biggest dickhead there is, I feel, not coincidental.

Tombi!

Because, when you have a young boy going to school, mammy needs to teach him how to put on his tie.

And then she needs to do it for the husband, since we're incapable of doing it.

Also, why couldn't I wear a skirt to school?

Duggy747

When I was growing up the worst thing to happen to the girl's uniform in my school was the introduction of the horrible looking trousers instead of the skirts. Looked like they were made out of curtains.

danslevent

I had to wear a tie as a girl and I didn't really care. It not like you had to reknot it every morning, no big deal.

Uniforms are really good for schools, less competition and less effort in the morning. I liked it, they weren't very comfortable but they beat having to think of something to wear so early in the morning each day!

pickarooney

lazygal wrote: »

But what about all female schools? My school was female only.

The very essence of sexual discrimination there, not allowing boys to attend your school. What kind of a way is that to teach children equality?

Franticfrank

Maybe they should make students wear boiler suits.

Actually, that does sound comfortable.

biko

A tie in itself is a pretty stupid concept but it does look good with school uniforms on either gender.

corktina

school uniforms are in the main designed to make schoolgirls look awful, for fairly obvious reasons.

I've always been fairly anti-uniform myself, but I'm sure school would be a fashion parade without it and a sore trial to the poorer kids who couldn't compete.

Lemonperv

I wish I could have worn a tie at school. It looks cool.

9959

Lemonperv wrote: »

I wish I could have worn a tie at school. It looks cool.

I still wear a tie, nothing else, just a tie.

corktina

9959 wrote: »

I still wear a tie, nothing else, just a tie.

pictures or gtfo....

ScumLord

It's so ye know how to tie a man's tie for him.

Ray Palmer

I hated my uniform. I hate working in companies with business atire rules. Women can pretty much wear what they like but strict rules on guys.
School had seriously strange rules. You couldn't tie your hair back it is was long as the headmaster thought it looked wrong. Had a run in with him in metal work when he grabbed my pony tail while I was working at a lade. If a student had done it the teacher would have suspended him. I flipped at the head master and was held back by other students. He never bothered me again as he knew he would be in serious trouble.