Re: Hmmm...

Apparently it hasn't occurred to Mr. Richards that maybe the girls actually do want to look good. I'm not saying that one has to wear a short skirt to look good, just that they probably get looked at more by the boys when they wear shorter skirts, and fit it with the other girls. By 12 or 13, it seems to me, many girls are aware of/interested in that sort of thing, and society just doesn't want to accept that fact.

Of course. In a traditionally Christian school it is hardly surprising, though, even apart from the crazy 'pedo' hysteria for which mere Christianity (no punnish C.S. Lewis reference intended!) is neither a necessary nor sufficient condition.

This restriction is also rather mild compared to those imposed in tribal-Islamic countries (including Uncle Sam's bent-over oil bitch Saudi Arabia) which some posters believe to be pedo-friendly.