Should boys wear shorts to school during the entire school year even in cold weather climates?

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1. Guest4568
   

   Yes! They look really great and they'll remember they're boys, and play a lot and get exercise, which will keep them healthy.

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2. Guest3963
   

   Yes, I am very much the opinion that schoolboys should be in shorts the year round summer and winter. It helps them to feel their environment as they are more sensible for it. It is healthy and good for toughening. When it is cold and uncomportable they learn not to serch for the first best solution, but to stand the situation. This is good for charakter building.
   To be in shorts shows them that they are still boys and not adults.

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3. Guest3912
   

   It used to be the convention that boys up to the age of at least 11, wore shorts, both at school and for general wear - irrespective of the weather. This was really a social division between children and adults, created by the Victorian middle-class. After 11 years old, trousers were the convention and shorts only worn for exercise and general leisure.  However in hot climates boys wore shorts throughout their school education, at all levels. It was practical because of the heat.  Adults also wore shorts for the same reason.  Schools can be very strict about dress codes, and the British Public Schools hold on to these traditions.  The Christ's Hospital School still uses an eighteenth century style uniform, and Eton and Harrow use a nineteenth century gentleman's uniform.

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4. Guest8137
   

   No.I don't believe boys should suffer the indignity of wearing shorts all the year round.Subjecting boys to the cold elements simply to toughen them in unnecessary.I certainly did not beefit from this enforced endurance which was enforced by my parents and at school as a mandatory uniform requirement.To keep boys in short pants to make look like boys is another reason not to continue this anachronistic convention.

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5. Guest1870
   

   Yes. Shorts on boys look extremely smart.

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6. Guest6486
   

   Yes - boys should be toughened by wearing short shorts all over the year!
   My personal experience is very positive. Till to the age of about 11 my parents ordered me and my brother to wear short German lederhosen from beginning of March to end of November. Since I was proud to show my bare legs even in icy winter and stood the cold I later on deceased to wear short shorts allover the year.
   Thomas

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