School Uniform Police

[Hymie]

This nonsense was going on more than 50 years ago when I attended a bog-standard secondary modern.

Don’t teachers have something more useful to do with their time – such as teaching?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11224661/Parents-accuse-school-turning-military-camp-uniform-crackdown.html

[Redhelen72]

Children need to learn that through life there are rules, uniforms are one of those rules.
The parents should abide by those rule and ensure that little Bethany is sent to school properly attired.
Poor babies getting blisters from shoes!!

[douglas9401]

"Don’t teachers have something more useful to do with their time – such as teaching?"

Such old-fashioned thinking has been consigned to the dustbin of history and gives staff more time to mould their clients into rounded goobers who can't wire a plug or boil a kettle without a manual.
Teaching is merely indoctrination, programming with the memory of empire long gone.

A few more general studies graduates and media experts and we can purge this backward looking guff.

Except in the inner cities where they're being bred to eat your innards at a given signal you soft ***.

[Hymie]

//Children need to learn that through life there are rules, uniforms are one of those rules.//

Maybe (I’ve never worn a uniform except at school) – but why make up stupid rules; this just breeds contempt for those making rules, that could otherwise be important.

Interestingly, your reason was not one of the many stupid reasons my school gave for having a uniform.

[bobbinwales]

Am afraid I dont have much sympathy for those parents you see looking miserable with there child pulling a face because he/she aint allowed to wear there new £150 trainers and dont see why they should have to spend £10 at George in Asda to get a pair of shoes which do meet the rules, or girls wearing leggings, massive eyelashes and orange tanned faces and legs.... I seen lots of them in our store last week.
In the first few weeks back schools want to make it clear the rules are there to be followed, parents have signed up to them by agreeing to send there child there.... and it can be worse when theres a new head who wants to stamp there authority.. Its far better to clamp down early on else you get the complaints "well no-one said anything so we all decided to get the trainers they has begged us for"

[Hymie]

At the bog-standard secondary modern that I attended, the girl’s uniform included navy knickers.

I could write a book on the nonsense rules imposed at the school – perhaps some/many are still in place.

[bobbinwales]

You can always apply to be a governor and try to chance school policy hymie.... as can any parent who dosnt like the schol rules ( or they can choose another school for there child )

[bobbinwales]

Change nor chance

[bobbinwales]

Not not nor! Need a bigger keypad on phone

[zebo]

//You can always apply to be a governor and try to chance school policy hymie.... as can any parent who dosnt like the schol rules //

But that involves doing something constructive and getting off their backsides instead of whining into cyber space and I can guarantee that this kind of parent really can't be bothered.

[andres]

^^^Hymie---What's wrong with navy knickers?

[Hopkirk]

I'm all for uniforms, and enforcement of rules. It's all part of education.

[Hymie]

Why would the colour of a girl’s knickers be specified in a school uniform?

[Redhelen72]

Exactly it puts the children on the same footing and should enable them to concentrate on their education instead of Doris’s new trainers

[Redhelen72]

I think the knickers thing was 50 years ago!
The only knickers specifically mentioned in my strict school uniform was running knickers

[Hymie]

Hopkirk’s going to get me listing some of those stupid rules – and then he will justify them.

[Atheist]

The royals seem to have worn uniform all their lives.

[douglas9401]

"Why would the colour of a girl’s knickers be specified in a school uniform?"

To keep things that same for all, or, errrr, uniform.

[Redhelen72]

We all knows what happened to Debbie from the fifth form who wore lacy knickers instead of cotton navy blue!

She went and did Dallas!

[andres]

Navy knickers were part of our uniform 74 years ago.

[goodgoalie]

Many years ago, the headmistress of a well-known Scottish school rang my mother and said " Good morning Mrs X, I'm telephoning about your daughter"

My mother, naturally, thought something truly awful had happened.

"We're sending her home, as she is wearing the wrong denier stockings".

My parents were absolutely fuming - letters were written!