The Real Reason Upper Secondary Students Wear Long Pants (opens in new tab)

The Blue Cats’ website: The Blue Cats' Instagram: -------- Singapore schools do not have a national law that forces upper secondary boys to wear long pants\. MOE does not strictly mandate uniform designs for primary and secondary schools, so each school sets its own rules\. However, many school rules follow the same pattern: lower secondary boys wear shorts, while upper secondary boys wear long pants\. The practice likely came from Singapore’s British colonial history\. School uniforms beca...