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. 

 

 

[Ryzen]

Asda sell clothes to suit many schools in the area,not just one.  Parents have a duty to confirm the garment suits a specific school.

[barry1010]

Secondary school often arrive at school looking very different to how they left home. Make up on, different trousers, skirts rolled up to their backside.  The school is right in disciplining the child and informing the parents.

 

[ToraToraTora]

renegadefm "ToraToraTora, 

Personally this isn't my issue." - no but your approach to it tells us what you think about it.

"I was merely pointing out if the child's standards of trousers wasn't to the schools standards." - then why are surprised the school dealt with it?

"Why take it out on the child. Shes in her first year of secondary school, so the blame should bounce back to the parents was my point. " - the pupil is the one there, it is not encumbant on the school to track the parents down. The parents are the one putting the pupil in this position. The school will always react to the pupil, it is the pupil that gets sent home that's how it works.

[bednobs]

in my (recent) experience of starting secondary school, they are not backward in coming forward about what the expected standards are.  You are told in April what school your kid has got in to and them you have 6 months to look at the uniform standards and sort it out.  the school sent us many letters as toexpected standards, and the pupil and parents had to sign something saying they would adhere.

same as naomi, our school has a 2nd hand store that you can buy the "special" skirt in for £1.50.  I was pretty annoyed last year when she started that there was only this 1 choice (which was about £20 in the school unifrm shop) but i got over it pretty quick;y

[TwoShortPlanks]

I'm going to stick my head above the parapet and say that I think the school are being unreasonable.

If the child is wearing black trousers does it really matter where they came from? She's not rocked up in sparkly hot pants! 

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

Common sense really is a scarcity. 

[MargoTester]

Because the school specified tousers and the child had leggings on and there is a vast difference between the two

[chelle7272]

We don't know that it is about where they were from, just that they are not compliant with the uniform policy, which is there for a reason.

[TwoShortPlanks]

What makes black leggings so scandalous? 

[DDIL]

Your family appears to have lots of issues with schools!

The school would have made your family aware of the requirement months ago, if your stepdaughter decided not to abide by the rules then she is to blame not the school.

[MargoTester]

Where did I say they were scandalous- I said they are two different things . 

[david small]

Snowflake alert...

 

[pastafreak]

I've seen school uniform here that certainly looks like leggings for the girls...with matching jumper/ sweatshirt type tops. The girls always look well presented...no skirts hiked 10" above their knees either. 

[youngmafbog]

//What makes black leggings so scandalous? //

Are you for real?

One of my duaghters (38 so not at school) wears them, they look like they were painted on.  Luckily she is very slim with long legs so gets aeway with it.  But they are very revealing.

[youngmafbog]

Yes we had that problem with daughter above.  Also at the time the trousers were low slung and we got complaints about the G-String" putting the boys off their work.

[pastafreak]

I just checked the school I mentioned...cargo trousers and sweatpants for PE. T-shirt, polo shirts, sweatshirts. No white trainers 

[TwoShortPlanks]

If boy is "put off his work" because a girl is wearing leggings, the issue isn't with the girl. 

[pastafreak]

15:34...so true, some are very thin fabric. It's a 👎 

[vulcan42]

I have always thought that if a school wants a uniform they pay for it. 

[MargoTester]

Whatever made you think that Vulcan. Imagine the cost of that for upwards of 1000 pupils at a secondary school.

[Peter Pedant]

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

part of the education is that where there are rules, then they have to obey them and not vary them according to the day

good trg for outside where.... there are laws and the kids have to obey  them....

the parent should ensure they adhere to the uniform policy. - bedkn. bome marrow transplant or not