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Catholic high schools across Toronto and the GTA have had enough with girls hiking up their kilts.

Bruce Campbell with the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board where only six of 25 high schools still allow kilts to be worn says the kilts lack modesty and morality.

The board started phasing them out several years ago after some girls refused to obey rules to keep hemlines near their knees. Principals and teachers have been left in playing the role of fashion police and Campbell says education should be the first priority and not time enforcing uniform rules.

In the Halton region alone, eight Catholic high schools have already banned kilts, while two other schools are in the process of removing them.

Instead most schools will now require girls to wear pants.

Toronto-based school uniform supplier R.J. McCarthy have come up with a kilt-and-pants hybrid for students in schools that haven’t banned skirts outright. It’s called the X-Kilt – a “traditional kilt with built-in shorts” – and has surpassed traditional kilts in popularity since being introduced in 2003.