A SCHOOL has banned teenage boys from wearing shorts in hot weather — but they can wear skirts.

Parents have been told that only long trousers or skirts can be worn under its “gender-neutral” uniform policy.

2 Chiltern Edge School in Oxfordshire have banned shorts for teenage boys

Chiltern Edge School introduced a new uniform of blue blazer, white shirt, grey trousers or skirts and black shoes as part of a drive to improve standards after an “inadequate” Ofsted rating.

But dad Alastair Vince-Porteous asked if his 13-year-old son could wear tailored grey shorts as he suffers nose bleeds which become more frequent when he gets hot.

He said: “I wanted to try to make him a bit cooler but I was told shorts are not part of the uniform.”

Alastair said he was told his lad could wear a skirt to the school in Sonning Common, Oxfordshire.

2 In 2017 boys at a school in Exeter protests a similar uniform rule but wearing skirts Credit: SWNS:South West News Service

He said: “They mentioned its policy being gender-neutral. I’m not saying it should be shorts all year round but for the two months of the summer term when it gets hot.”

Head Moira Green said: “Chiltern Edge, with the support of parents, made the decision to move to a more formal uniform. Shorts are not part of it.” Last summer dozens of boys at Exeter’s Isca academy wore skirts in protest at a “no shorts” rule.