Rejected petition Deem smart shorts acceptable as boys summer uniform in UK secondary schools.

Allow smart shorts to be recognised as acceptable summer uniform for boys in UK secondary schools.

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With summer temperatures continuing to increase in the UK, it should be acceptable for secondary age school boys to wear smart shorts as part of the summer uniform.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.

Decisions about school uniforms at individual schools are a matter for the governing bodies for each school, not the UK Government or Parliament, but we have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:

Ban school uniforms in English schools: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/607158

Require schools to make uniform optional: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/608259

Prevent enforcement of school uniforms if temperatures exceed a certain level: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/612028

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 16 June 2022
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