Would you mention this to God's friend's mum

Gymnasts wear skimpy knickers joined onto their tops (leotards, I think they're called). No-one seems to mind. So long as a bum is covered, what does it matter?

Oh yeah, think marathon runners as well—wee panties and bras. It's the fashion to do PE-type stuff in underwear-like apparel.

I'd leave it to the school to mention it if they think mentioning is necessary.

School might have sent umpty-ump reminders about PE kit to parents. There must come a point when they think it's a waste of time.

A child shouldn't be made to do PE in her knickers - she's not an athlete and underwear isn't a leotard.

I know physically underwear is no different from a leotard/running briefs but the child's dignity should be maintained. The PE activity could surely have been performed in her school skirt/trousers.

If the weather is very warm children aren't allowed to strip off and go around school in their underwear on the grounds that they're the same as shorts, are they?

We ve just had a whole long thread all about this do we really want to do it to death all over again

Sorry, in my indignation I forgot to say that yes I would mention it to the mother.

There seems to be a bit of a theme going on here. 'Nuff said.

After school activities are entirely voluntary, therefore this child made a specific choice to attend, and a specific choice to perform in her underwear.
By all means inform the parents, and tell them to berate their forgetful daughter for not having the correct kit. Their fault, not the school.

Presumably your GD and friend are at primary school, so they are little girls not hefty teenagers. Don’t see the problem.

Journalist looking for copy or someone who actually wants a conversation about little girls in knickers. Oh yuck!

Until we were 16 we did PE and games in our knickers and the school was on a main road in a town , we just had aertex shirts on and the knickers we were already wearing.
However these were regulation navy knickers with elastic everywhere. I still hated it and found it embarrassing.
Primary school children shouldn't be wearing skimpy things and if older the child should tell her mother herself,
Another point occurs, if this was an after school activity the child should have pointed out that she wouldn't be staying as she hadn't brought her kit with her. Surely these things aren't mandatory.
I see that another poster has already made this point.

Just so long as she wasn't eating a Gregg's sausage roll.

An unfortunate typo in the light of the current Gregg’s/Baby Jesus “discussion”.
I thought GNHQ had been asked to look into the facility to edit or amend thread title.

Actually there is something a bit odd about this thread. I regularly pick my GC up from school and we all have to wait outside, in the playground. So I can’t imagine any child being allowed to do any after-school activity outside, in this weather skimpily dressed.

Secondly after-school activities, especially those that involve getting changed out of uniform, usually take a good 10 minutes to get going, so those on pick-up duties are usually heading home by then.

Finally, if this was supposed to take place inside the school, perhaps in the school hall, what was a grandparent doing inside school at that time.

OP explain please.

annsixty at Grammar School we also wore aertex shirt and regulation knickers with pocket for games on the playing field. Because I was the smallest it always fell to me to crawl under the hedge to retrieve the ball from beside a main road. Scarred me for life!

I am sure the child had the choice as it was an after school activity, and pants are no worse than swimming costumes at which nobody would bat an eyelid.

I only read this thread because I was wondering who God’s friend was.
I do recognise the OP’s name otherwise I could have sworn it was an ‘ere we go again scenario, especially in the light of a recent similar thread.

G&T

Having been one of several posters who answered your recent thread on this subject I am wondering why you have not tagged your question to your other thread?.

AIBU / Didn't think schools were this strict these days (150 Posts)

You posted. " Well, my DD has reported it, hence the reply that the teacher thought she was wearing these modesty short type things under her uniform. But I don't think my DGD will be forgetting her kit again!"

Perhaps her parents will do as your daughter did and report it to the school , or they think about it differently altogether.

Isn't there another thread about something similar? Is it the same event? Oh but that was a PE lesson. Something odd is going on.

But both were started by the same OP.

I can't imagine a gran being so interested in adolescent girls underwear. Ugh!

At first I thought I recognised the name as a longstanding poster, but on second thoughts the added 01 makes it a new or unfamiliar one. I hadn't connected it with the previous gym-in-knickers thread. Poster is harping on a bit, isnt she/he?

Yes, he is..

Me too, Elegran. I thought it was a name I recognised and hadn’t realised there was a slight difference. I also hadn’t taken on board that s/he had started that other thread. Oh Lord, enough is enough.