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. 

 

 

[naomi24]

The school claims the child was wearing leggings - the OP says the garment was from Asda's Back to School range which clearly doesn't meet uniform requirements.

[barry1010]

So were they a problem because they were leggings, or because they were't bought from the official shop?  The official shop wasn't mentioned until somebody else mentioned it. 

[Canary42]

Another feature on other sites which we could do with here (but I doubt Ab's techies could manage it) is the ability for the OP to close off replies. This one's been done to death yet still it goes on and on and on and on and on . . . . . . . .

[Yes, I know I'm not helping 😁]

[jourdain2]

Rules are rules - as has been said again and again.

Most schools have 2nd-hand uniform sales - especially when the uniform is specific and more costly than the supermarket general school stuff.  My parents had to buy my uniform at one shop - I nearly drowned in the blazer when I was 10 and was busting out of it when I was 17 and I was still wearing the same skirt - but not rolled over at the waist any more!

My daughters stopped telling me about non-uniform days - because the wealthier kids arived in costly trainers, designer gear etc.. A level playing field is vital and the last Comp. I worked in abolished non-uniform days, which had been a good little help towards school equipment.

No-one has mentioned one of the very good reasons for not permitting trainers, except for Games. They lack the support  necessary for growing feet which are also supporting more and more physical growth and need to form in the correct position. This was explained to us by a physiotherapist.

If anyone is unwilling to kit out their child according to the rules, then s/he should remove the child to another school.  It is very poor parenting to expose the child to being singled out.  It is not the school's fault.