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Because of a heat wave in the U.K. male students at Gowerton Comprehensive School in Swansea starting wearing shorts instead of long trousers. However, the school banned the shorts, so the boys decided to wear skirts instead.
"It's cooled us down quite a lot," said one student. "If we wore trousers in class it would affect us. Getting sweaty and also losing concentration because of the heat."
Some parents are not at all happy about the school's ban on shorts.
36-year old mother Karen Davies is upset because she says her 15-year old son, Steven, passed out from heat stroke after a day at school wearing trousers.
“So I sent him to school on Thursday in a pair of tailored shorts. I had cut down a pair of school trousers and I hemmed them up properly," she told the Daily Star."I was told he would spend the day in inclusion because he wasn’t wearing a pair of trousers or they will send him home to me, There’s a lot of boys in years 10 and 11 who are walking around in skirts, if I hadn’t seen it I wouldn’t believe it.”
Karen doesn't understand why the boys aren't treated the same way as the girls.
“The girls have the choice between skirts and trousers why can’t the boys have a choice?” she added.
Given the same set of circumstances would you send your son to school in a skirt?
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