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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.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.If I transgressed my school’s uniform policy I was told about and told to get it put right. It was my parents’ responsibility to ensure I had the right kit and mine to make sure I wore it. My school had neither the time nor the inclination to mess about contacting my parents. The responsibility to comply was mine.
“It beggers believe why are schools doing this to our children.”
There are many and various reasons for school uniform rules – most of them explained on here. That’s why the school is doing it.
“No wonder they are growing up bitter and twisted or are suffering mental health issues.”
They are bitter and twisted because they have been led to believe, often by their parents, that they can always have their own way. Any so-called “mental health issues” that follow arise from the disappointment they suffer when it finally sinks in that they cannot.
The earlier they learn that lesson, the less likely they are to suffer either of those conditions. I never laboured under that misapprehension myself and so I suffered no "mental health problems" from occasionally being disciplined for non-compliance. It was called "growing up".
New Judge,
I think you haven't read all my posts.
I did explain that the trousers were bought from a back to school range that ASDA was selling during the summer holidays.
So they were bought quite innocently, and faithfully for her daughter.
But it seems the trousers don't fit in with their standards. They are saying the trousers should have been bought from a certain shop that designs clothes for schools, but their prices are more than double the price of the ASDA trousers.
When your a parent on a tight budget, this can in some cases mean a big deal, especially if you got more than one child.
And it causes unnecessary misery when its not the childs fault, so the school is obviously going the wrong way about addressing this in my opinion. To suspend a child from school for wearing what they deem unsuitable trousers, when in reality they are just black trousers seems ridiculous.
Since when did schools dictate to parents where they purchase their clothes from? It wasn't like this when I went to school in the early to mid 80's.
While I do understand the need abide by a certain uniform, it seems outrageous to me to be picky on where a pair of trousers are bought from.
There are probably far bigger things for parents to worry about than that, like making sure the child gets to school safely, and return home safely.
The more I think about this it just seems so ridiculous its unreal.
naomi24,
Its the childs first term at this school, she only just finished primary school, so the parent in this case wasn't aware of the rules around trousers.
Ok then put it this way, why then are ASDA and other shops sell back to school clothes if they only bring misery when the school rejects them?
I don't believe the mother wasn't aware of the rules. I'm guessing the child has the right jumper and perhaps the regulation school tie? The mother must have been given information about uniform requirements.
Your Asda argument is ridiculous. Get the child the trousers she needs. Treat her. End of misery.
renegadefm, don't believe all you read on the internet. Making accusations on someone else's say so and without evidence isn't a good idea. You're talking about a pair of trousers - how much are they? £10, £20? Not vast amounts of money anyway. Buy them for the girl yourself and put an end to it. It's not worth the fuss.