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A mother has vented her fury after her daughter was given a detention warning for her skirt being too short.
Tammy Humphreys' daughter arrived home from Ysgol Eifionydd in Porthmadog on Monday with a note from the school saying she would be sent to detention if she wore the same outfit again.
The black skirt was deemed too short as it was above the knee rather than being knee-length as the school's uniform policy states.
A mother has vented her fury after her daughter was given a detention warning for her skirt being too short
Tammy said she 'couldn't believe it' when her daughter told her she would be sent to detention if she wore the skirt again.
She said it was the same type of skirt her daughter had worn the previous year, but a size up.
The Year 8 pupil is one of 18 students at the school who were given a detention warning over their uniform on the first day of the new school year on Monday.
Tammy said: 'My daughter returned from her first day back in school on Monday and told me she had been given detention for her uniform, which didn't make sense to me as she looked completely fine.
'Then I found that a few other pupils had been given detention for the same reason - with one pupil warned for wearing ankle socks.
'Some of the others, I'm told, were given detention for wearing piercings, too much make-up and trainers, which is more understandable.
'But
