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 Local news site Devon Live captured the scene outside the academy Thursday morning as schoolgirls doled out spare skirts to their classmates. Read more: Watch roads in Devon melt on the hottest day in June in the UK for 41 years 
 
 The news follows after an angry mum hit out at the school for their uniform policy after her son 'almost passed out' from the heat. "If the Queen said that the people ... at this thing doing the royal stuff ... could take off their jackets for like the first time in 100 years or something, then surely we should be allowed not to wear trousers in the summer," he said, referring to changes made to strict dress rules for racegoers attending the Royal Ascot 
 
 He added that wearing the black-and-white tartan skirt was "quite refreshing." Asked if he enjoyed the feeling of wearing a skirt, he said: "It's just a nice breeze." "We recognize that the last few days have been exceptionally hot and we are doing our utmost to enable both students and staff to remain as comfortable as possible through the following adjustments," Mitchell said. She added, "Shorts are not currently part of our uniform for boys and I would not want to make any changes without consulting both students and their families." However, with hotter weather becoming more normal, I would be happy to consider a change for the future.” 
 
 It was too late. A group of teenage boys are set to turn up to school wearing girls skirts tomorrow in a mass protest following the school's 'no shorts' policy. "Now there are about 50 boys who are trying to borrow skirts off the girls and they all say they are going to wear them tomorrow," she added. "One of the five boys did get in trouble today – because it was too short." A mum who has a 14-year-old son at ISCA college said: "My son wanted to wear shorts but was told he would be put in the isolation room for the rest of the week. She added, "The head teacher told them 'Well you can wear a skirt if you like' but I think she was being sarcastic. However, children tend to take you literally, and because she told them it was OK, there was nothing she could do as long as they were school skirts.” 
 
 A third mother said: “Children also don’t like injustice. The boys see the female teachers in sandals and nice cool skirts and tops while they are wearing long trousers and shoes and the older boys have to wear blazers. They just think it’s unfair that they can’t wear shorts in this heat.” 
 
 There were signs that the revolution might be spreading. The Exeter mum said that children should have a voice, no matter how old they are.
– Despite the hottest June temperatures in more than 40 years, the head teacher at Isca Academy in Devon, England, told boys shorts were not an acceptable part of the school uniform—but she didn't ban skirts. To keep cool and protest the ban, dozens of boys at the secondary school turned up Thursday in skirts that had been borrowed from friends or siblings, CNN reports. One teen described the feeling as a "nice breeze" amid the sweltering temperatures. The mother of a 14-year-old boy tells Devon Live that head teacher Aimee Mitchell sarcastically told boys protesting the shorts ban that they could wear skirts if they liked—but "children tend to take you literally." "Children also don’t like injustice," another mother says. "The boys see the female teachers in sandals and nice cool skirts and tops while they are wearing long trousers and shoes and the older boys have to wear blazers." Boys who wore the school's regulation tartan skirts did not get into trouble—apart from one who wore his too short. With the protest now spreading to other schools with shorts bans, Mitchell has signalled that she is ready to reconsider. "Shorts are not currently part of our uniform for boys," she said Thursday, per the Guardian. "However, with hotter weather becoming more normal, I would be happy to consider a change for the future." (This London school is considering gender-neutral uniforms.)