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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Flora Byatt & Adam May

School sparks backlash after banning ALL pupils from wearing skirts for 'affordability'

Parents have been left angered after a school banned its pupils from wearing skirts and introduced a trousers-only uniform policy.

Haywood Academy in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, brought in the rule for the start of the academic year.

An online petition against the move has already gathered more than 110 signatures and was set-up by furious mum-of-four Claire Rigby.

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