250 girls sent home because their skirts were 'too short'

Boys also excluded for wearing wrong shoes to prepare them for the 'world of work'

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A school on the Isle of Wight has excluded 250 girls from class because their skirts were too short.

The girls, aged between 11 and 18, were removed from classrooms by teachers at Ryde Academy and either placed in an isolation hall or instructed to go home. The school's headmaster said that he wanted to prepare them for the "world of work", the Daily Telegraph reports.Boys at the school were also sent home if their shoes were not made from leather. Other students were removed if their trousers were "too tight".

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