IT IS great to see the way four teenagers poked fun at their school's uniform code after they were told off for wearing shorts.

When boys turned up in shorts at Longhill High School on sweltering Tuesday in shorts they breached the school's policies and have been told wearing their shorts were not permitted.

So yesterday, with the backing of parents, they threw on skirts in a bid to let the air get to their legs and stay cool.

They were of course allowed to wear them with no complaints from the school this time.

No doubt they would have faced a very uncomfortable set of questions about what different genders should be able to wear if they did otherwise.

In this politically correct world headteachers have a very fine and difficult line to tread.

Like the school said, the skirts are part of the uniform and are therefore fine for all.

So all's well that ends well then? Sadly not as the parents have been upset about their boys being punished for wearing the shorts.

While on the one hand we can understand this code of no shorts allowed.

The school has been through troubled times and headteacher Kate Williams is working to up the standard across the board.

But these boys have opened the uniform code to ridicule by wearing the skirts as it does seem silly to allow them when shorts, despite being very similar, are not allowed.

Perhaps common sense could have prevailed when the wore the shorts on Tuesday, as an exception to the rule, not a bid by the children to be unruly.