Why Are Schools Doing This?

[renegadefm]

Just had my partners daughter ring her in tears because her daughter, partners granddaughter was susspended from wearing the wrong type of trousers. This I should add is secondary school. 

This is just messing with the child's mental health. Besides the trousers she had on we're trousers of the right colour, and not leggings as the school was suggesting they are. 

 

This isn't the first time I have heard of issues like this at secondary schools around here. One particular indecent was where the child was given detention for wearing the wrong brand of trainers, apparently it should have been shoes. 

 

It beggers believe why are schools doing this to our children. No wonder they are growing up bitter and twisted or are suffering mental health issues. 

 

Surely they are there to learn and get an education, it shouldn't matter what they wear. 

 

 

[Canary42]

My school did pay for Friday uniforms, but that's because they were military (Friday afternoons = Combined Cadet Force) and were only loaned.

[Peter Pedant]

The school would have made your family aware of the requirement months ago

agreed, and today is not even the first day of term

[sandyRoe]

Are grants for school uniforms still available?

When children are all dressed the same the opportunity for bullying because of one's clothes disappears.

I'd say that's a good thing.

[bednobs]

looked after children and those entitled to pupil premium get help i thinl

[zebo]

*According to her daughter this isn't the first time they have had issues with clothes.*

This child obviously thinks the rules don't apply to her and is supported by her family.  Maybe when she starts working and her employer has some kind of corporate dress code or provides a uniform she can also complain, see how long she'll last there.

In employment, 'mental health' for many is the 21st century version of a 'bad back'.

[zebo]

//Schools should focus on education and behaviour rather than something this trivial.//

I'm sure they would be delighted to be able to concentrate on just education but the realism is that schools are expected to be social workers, marriage guidance, police, parking wardens etc etc.. They are expected to sort out arguments among pupils caused by their dozey parents allowing them unfettered internet access, all under the spurious heading of 'safeguarding', something that many parents fail to do.

 

[smurfchops]

Messing with the child's mental health?  Don't make me laugh.  Conform with the school rules or the child never will. Rules are not made to be broken, the 'child' should be taught that, so should the parents.

[DDIL]

I am 52 and if we did not abide by the uniform rules we were put in detention and then suspended, the only reason we weren't suspended straight away was because we were rural and reliant on the school bus.

[bednobs]

ha! turns out i DID moan about it last year 

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/ChatterBank/Question1839799-2.html 

like i say, i ot over it pretty quicly, esp when i went to the shop and they were having a sale on, and we picked up a spare from the 2nd hand shop.  perhaps some replies on that post might be helpful to you partner's daughter/?

[Hymie]

I can remember being sent home from school for wearing the wrong colour socks – on arrival at home my mother asked why I was home.

 

After telling her the reason, I could tell by the look on her face that she was not sure whether I had made up some nonsense excuse, or was telling the truth.

[Hymie]

The girls’ uniform at the Secondary Modern that I attended included navy knickers – but I think this rule was just to satisfy the pervs in charge.

[johnny.5]

just let them wear the wrong trousers when you require a term time holiday 

then you can go away with your child without the fear of a fine 

 

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[andres]

Whilst I agree with schools having uniform rules ,I think in this instance it would have been more appropriate to have sent the parents a letter or telephone message first.

[Hymie]

The rip-off cost of school uniforms (where only one shop has exclusive rights to sell the goods) could be stopped if the law was changed such that the headmaster of any school receiving kickbacks from the shop (under the above arrangement) would be jailed for a minimum of 1 year, with a maximum fine of 100x the kickback amount.

 

This kickback arrangement was going on when I was in secondary school, nearly 60 years ago – it is time it was stopped.

[Peter Pedant]

it would have been more appropriate to have sent the parents a letter or telephone message first.

we dont  know the schools side of the story

[Barsel]

I agree with andres @ 21.09.

A letter/ phone call should have been made to the parents giving them a certain amount of days to buy the correct trousers, with a warning that the child will be suspended if this doesn't happen.

As I said earlier, it depends on the strictness of the school, but I have heard of children being sent home because of a haircut or colour of hair which isn't even in the uniform rules.

[Cloverjo]

My son's school was quite strict on uniform and appearance, while he was there about 10 years ago. No unnatural coloured hair, multiple piercings etc. Until the Trans thing kicked off. Now, the 'transgender' kids go to school with blue or purple hair, and that's ok, apparently.
 

I do prefer a school unform, but I was walking in Bath last week at school chucking-out time and every girl I saw with a school blazer was wearing a skirt just about covering her bum. 

[Barsel]

Cloverjo, my best friend would roll over the waistband of her skirt every morning when she left her house on the way to school but would unroll it when we got there. When the school day was finished she would roll it up again until she reached home when she would let it down again. This was in 1957 - 1961.

[zebo]

//every girl I saw with a school blazer was wearing a skirt just about covering her bum. //

 

AKA pubic pelmets.

[Cloverjo]

Barsel, yes, I did that too. I don't know if the boys took any notice; probably not.
When I was playing netball I'd fix the Velcro bit on my skirt loosely so that it 'accidentally' fell off when the boys were around. 
So silly!

Anyway! Uniforms; yes, keep them but allow people  to buy from from shops like Primark, Asda etc.