Cast your mind back to your school days and you’ll probably recall being one of those children who tried to push the boundaries when it came to uniform.

Trying to stand out from the crowd, whether it was wearing a tie in a particular way, or taking up the hem on a skirt way above regulation length, many a pupil has tried to flout the rules and look ‘individual’.

But there are rules in life and at school. When you send your child to a particular school with a uniform code it’s a parent’s duty to ensure your children are turned out in the appropriate way.

However it seems that things aren’t so clear cut at Cheney School, as we report today, where dozens of schoolgirls have been removed from class for wearing the wrong trousers.

Cheney insists that it wrote to all parents at the start of term to inform them that treggins – a form our tight-fitting trousers – were not an acceptable part of the uniform.

Some parents argue they were only given a week’s notice to take heed of that warning, haven’t got the budget to buy an alternative and that the type of trouser their daughter wears does not inhibit how they learn.

They also say that this type of trouser has been worn at the school for years.

In a dispute like this there can be no winners. Perhaps a way forward should be for further round of final warning letters to go out to parents with a new date of enforcement.

That way there can be no argument that there wasn’t a warning. And then any parent who chooses to ignore the rules will only have the themselves to blame if their child loses out on attending lessons.