School Coats

16011996

My kids grow through coats like no ones business, but been told that if the coat has another childs name in it (ie it has been a hand me down) it musn't be sent to school, as it causes confusion.

is it just me, or is this madness?

mink35

Madness ;D

mink35

Seriously tho, what does it matter? As long as the child knows which coat/name to look for that should be okay!

Caterina

It sounds like madness to me, 160!

What about removing the label with the other child's name and sewing your child's nametag on?

Or using a marker to cross off the other name and write your kid's?

School uniforms are such a rip-off, even though they are meant to protect people who cannot afford to buy fancy clothes. They are supposed to be 'unifiers' but instead they cost a fortune.

My kids' school t-shirts and sweatshirts could be the same as the ones that you buy for a couple of quid in Primark, same quality, but because they have the logo plastified on the breast they cost upwards of a tenner, the fleeces even more, depending on size.

It would be so much cheaper if kids were sold t-shirts by the school office, bought in bulk through a discount warehouse, and also sold a cloth badge to be sawn on, like the scout ones. They could add a small mark-up and make a bit of funds for the school, too.

I also hate that teenagers are not allowed trainers when in school (but can change at the entrance, e.g. walk to school in trainers and wear school shoes when they get on school premises).

I know there is all that ra-ra about rich kids able to afford brand names and poor kids not, but from what I see the majority of kids that hang around with my two are from regular working class families, yet they wear everything and I mean EVERYTHING brand name (out of school of course). I always wonder how people can afford this sort of expense on their children's clothing!

I can buy semi-decent trainers for less than £20 in a lot of discount shops (we got a wonderful Clarks outlet not far from where we live), they get destroyed pretty quickly by teenage feet but hopefully they get destroyed before the kids' feet grow again by one size!

Instead, it is difficult to buy decent but cheap black school shoes, they either are uncomfortable or made of cardboard or they pinch etc, the wearable ones are always much more expensive than a good pair of non-brand trainers.

Rant, rant, rant..... it seems this is all I do these days, maybe I need to get a life.....

Caterina

Spendless

My kids grow through coats like no ones business, but been told that if the coat has another childs name in it (ie it has been a hand me down) it musn't be sent to school, as it causes confusion.

is it just me, or is this madness?

which ones school has told you this 160 . If it's the eldest i should imagine he is perfectly able to say which coat is his.

I agree with the other posters stick a big black marker thru the old name and put a new label in

MATH

I can imagine it causing confussion in reception class but after that even the drippiest kid in the year should be able to recognise his/her own coat. (Just realized how that sounds - I'm not suggesting anyone on this board has drippy kidz) :-[ I always remove hand-me-down names to avoid teasing from other kidz.

robnye

my teenage daughters would be gobsmacked if we left the name labels in from the older child...... mind you they would well embarrassed if we left name tags in at all.......

maybe i can use that as an idle threat.... he he

christmas_donkey

It sounds like madness to
It would be so much cheaper if kids were sold t-shirts by the school office, bought in bulk through a discount warehouse, and also sold a cloth badge to be sawn on,

Yeah I know that idea, my sons school sell the white polo shirts with the school crest printed on for £6.75 each. >:(

This year I bought a pack of two from Marks and Spencer for the money I would have paid the school for one. It was commented on to him at the beginning of the summer by his teacher, but I sent a letter saying that I thought the school ones were too expensive as I have to replace them every year and they can only wear them 4 months of the year. Nothing more was said.

Edinburghlass_2

From my experience in helping in school and also taking Rainbows and Brownies I don't think it madness at all.

The nearest large store to my daughter's school was/is Marks and Spencer so invariably all the coats were the same style. When the kids finish up they would grab the first coat they found and be off leaving the last kid with goodness knows whose coat if it doesn't have a name in it. Used to happen time and again and particularly if the child didn't have the same name as the parent you were left having to send a kid home without a coat or the wrong one.

Ever looked in the lost property box at a school? Its always full of sweatshirts with no names in them and some of them brand new so yes we parents were always being given a "row" for not putting the correct names in school wear.

Now my daughter is at secondary school there is no way she would go to school wearing a "school coat" and of course they have to carry their jackets, books etc round with them so the question of names in their clothes no longer becomes an issue unless they are away on a trip where every piece of clothing requires a name!

At her primary school I was in charge of ordering the school sweat shirts and polo shirts etc through the PTA which we did twice a year. Obviously we couldn't make a loss but tried to keep the profit to a minimum of 50p per article but this still made a lot of money for the PTA which was ploughed back into the school by way of equipment, books etc that the school couldn't have afforded through their budget.

16011996

the name is in in marker pen, but name label sown over the top. to be fair it had come lose, but it only needs sewing up to cover the other name.

christmas_donkey

Just rip the label out and put your own in. Either that or go over the old name with a perminent marker and then add your own. Simple really.