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Edinburgh’s Castleview Primary School sparks row by encouraging all kids to wear skirts

2021-11-05 00:00:00.0 太阳报-英国新闻原网页

A PRIMARY school sparked a row after encouraging children as young as three to come to nursery or school wearing skirts - to ‘break down gender stereotypes’.

Teachers at Castleview Primary in Craigmillar, Edinburgh, sent an email to parents asking children to wear skirts to school yesterday.

Castleview primary in Edinburgh sent an email to parents Credit: Google Maps 2

Castleview pupil Ethan donned a skirt for gender equality Credit: Twitter: NicolaT22

The controversial dress code follows a similar move in Spain where teachers and many children have worn skirts to show solidarity with a boy who was expelled for wearing one.

Nicola Taylor’s son Ethan, 11, chose to don the outfit as part of the ‘equality’ stunt yesterday.

Nicola, 36, said: “We are so proud of our son and the fact that these kids want to support such a cause is remarkable and these kids deserve the support and even praise for tackling and supporting the issue.

“The school is amazing and so supportive to a lot of different topics and the kids are encouraged to express there true feelings on subjects.”

But not all parents were as supportive of the idea.

One mother called Megan with a son at Castleview tweeted: ‘My son is five and just got this from the school! Let kids be kids.’

Another Twitter user called Nicola said: ‘I mean if a boy really wants to wear a skirt to school, he should be allowed, but why initiate this and put pressure on people to ask their son to wear a skirt or be seen as some sort of bigot?’”