STOMPer Thomas is appalled that his school has forced Sec 3 students to wear shorts when many have already bought long pants and can't fit into their shorts anymore.

In an email to STOMP today (Jan 23), the STOMPer says:

“St. Andrew's Secondary School has a new rule in its books.

“Since the Secondary 2 students in 2009 are seen to be naughty and not mature enough, they are being forced to wear shorts even when they are in Secondary 3 in 2010.

“What type of reasoning is this?

“I'm a student from St. Andrew's Secondary currently in Sec 3. I've already bought my pants from the book shop and now I'm told that I cannot wear long pants to school as a Sec 3 student like any other school in Singapore. I have to wear short pants.

“Many of my classmates are also furious because they can't fit into their school shorts anymore. Are they expecting us to buy a new pair of shorts again because we can't fit into the current ones anymore?

“Then when they changed back the rule, what do we do? Throw away the new pair of shorts? And not all of us can afford to do so too.

“I find this rule outrageous and expect a good explanation for this.”