100 Pupils Sent Home For Wearing Incorrect Shoes.

[anotheoldgit]

Is it any wonder some of our children are not used to discipline with parents such as this?

Regardless of the excuses of only being told by text the day before term started, these parents were actually informed of the 'uniform' policy by letter twice last term, as well as informing the pupils during assembly.

However I thought the caption under this picture rather amusing.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/09/03/1409752719688_wps_14_PIC_BY_SOFIA_BOUZIDI_CATE.jpg

*** Absolute cobblers: Angry mother Michelle Clark with son Ellian showing the text from the school ***

[anotheoldgit]

ummmm

Not all schools wear white shirts, some wear T/shirts.

Can I take this opportunity to ask you who kvalidir's father is?

[kvalidir]

My father was Noxlumos when he posted on here AOG.

[bazwillrun]

" but why they couldn't walk (you know that out of date practice of putting one foot in front of the other) is quite another matter. "

elf'n'safety...far too dangerous to let them go walkies without a whole battalion of yellow hi viz jacketed chaperones

[ummmm]

NOX.

[ummmm]

Funny then the amount of kids I see walking to school everyday then.

[cazzz1975]

I prefer school uniforms, they are cheap, functional and it means parents dont have to spend a small fortune keeping up with the jones' in the classroom who can afford a luxury wardrobe, also kids are identifiable in their uniform and bullying over clothing brands is non existent.

As a child who only had one set of "saturday" clothes because we were too poor, I was grateful for my uniform.

[jennyjoan]

I loved my uniform cos you know what I wouldn't have had enough "ordinary" clothes for every day!!!

[jennyjoan]

Snap Cazz

[Svejk]

I went to very strict, Catholic, infants and junior schools but we never wore uniforms.
I can still feel the excruciating embarrassment of being dragged around Ireland and London, modelling my grammar school uniform for the relatives. ;-(

[anotheoldgit]

kvalidir / ummmm

Thanks for that, I notice he last posted 23:59 Tue 10th Mar 2009.

Hope he is still well.

[ummmm]

AOG...he couldn't get in on his original name so he opened a new account.

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/members/nox/

[Old_Geezer]

If one dresses respectfully I see uniform as just an infringement on the individual's option to wear what they wish. For sure one may say that the rules are known in advance, my thought is that the rules ought not cover such irrelevances in the first place. It's all about control. (Which may be necessary in poor ill-disciplined schools but ought not be in any decent one.)

[jno]

kvalidir seems to cope perfectly well with the world, uniform or none. But my old school turned out a varied mixture of artists, judges, sports people, and an Oscar winner (for acting) over the last century or so, so the uniform doesn't seem to have turned them into sheep either. But if you want to attend a school you sign up to its dress code or go elsewhere, same as adults do.

[ludwig]

// I see uniform as just an infringement on the individual's option to wear what they wish //

Err yeah, spot on OG. That doesn't make it a bad thing. There's a crime called murder which is basically just an infringement on people's option to go around killing anyone they want to.

The opposition to school uniform seems to be based on vague concepts about suppressing individuality, whereas the things in favour seem look more practical, like the fact that it's a leveller - no-one's going to get bullied for having the cheapo trainers etc etc. Things like that are massively important at that age.

[Ric.ror]

Don't the poor kids just wear the rich kids stuff from jumble sales, charity shops and gumtree though here

Or we could just let them eat cake ;-))