school:shorts are banned. male student: fine I'll wear a skirt!

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Is air conditioning in school buildings a common thing, or even a regional thing? None of the public schools I attended were air conditioned. My high school was remodeled while I was there, and the job was completed in my senior year, and air conditioning the building wasn't part of it. I could be wearing shorts and a t-shirt and still sweating balls on the hottest days.

So a no-shorts rule could result in students suffering heat-related medical problems if it was hot and/or humid enough in the building.

[FArchivist]

If every man stopped wearing shorts and started wearing kilts, it would be a better world to live in.

I can't agree with that. I am one of those people that should never, on penalty of execution, be allowed to wear a kilt. Besides, my traditional heritage dress involves the zupan, short boots, and woven sashes.

Is air conditioning in school buildings a common thing, or even a regional thing?

It is essential here in GA. It was catch-as-catch-can until the 1990s, when the lawsuits on the issue began to pick up. Due to what I assume was then-current theory on teaching, teachers stopped allowing students to get water when they needed it or have water bottles on hand in class. Result: kids passing out en masse in closed-window un-ACed classrooms. After the first few lawsuits, the state stepped in. Also got rid of all un-air conditioned dorm rooms on college campuses.

[Greenday]

It is essential here in GA. It was catch-as-catch-can until the 1990s, when the lawsuits on the issue began to pick up. Due to what I assume was then-current theory on teaching, teachers stopped allowing students to get water when they needed it or have water bottles on hand in class. Result: kids passing out en masse in closed-window un-ACed classrooms. After the first few lawsuits, the state stepped in. Also got rid of all un-air conditioned dorm rooms on college campuses.

Lucky bastards. Only the computer rooms and library at my schools were air conditioned. In college, labs were air conditioned thank God. But you had to get a medical note from an allergist (basically only those with asthma could get one) and then pay like $150 for the AC unit to be put in. Last summer, I spent it in a dorm at school and let me tell you, sleeping in a dorm room with no AC when it's 95+ degrees out each day sucks.

[insertNameHere]

This kid has balls. Just think if he'd been in the USA. He'd have been suspended for being a "distraction", and would have been forced to have seen a psychiatrist, and would have ended up on Ritalin or something.

That is true, and the fun part is we don't have Air conditioning in most of our schools, an most of the teachers need to spend money out of their pockets if they want a fan for even just them in the room. So wearing jeans in a extremely hot room during the summer sucks.

Nice to see someone exploiting the system a bit.

and as daleduke points out, I do remember once someone wore a kilt at my public school and it did not go over well,

as greenday points out, college wasn't much better most of the classrooms were controlled by someone with hot flashes one day it was 65 the next it was 80, the next it was 55. all why the temp outside stayed the same. Our computer labs were nice, they did have one set of dorms with Ac but they were small and the windows wouldn't open (unless you know how to pick up a set of security bits at habor freight)

[Lace Neil Singer]

Skirts are not the female equivalent of shorts. Skirts are generally considered more formal than pants for women. Shorts are extremely informal as clothing goes. Maybe their dress code is based on "class", not on comfort. I've seen dumber dress codes.

That might be it; at my school, girls were not allowed to wear trousers cuz the headmaster thought that trousers weren't ladylike. So we had to wear skirts all year round, even in winter when we ended up wearing kneehighs over our tights cuz we were so fucking cold.