Blazer in this heat?

Kimberley

mena dna women have to wear jackets in the office. Kids have to wear their Blazers. I think they should in class but not outside lunch times etc.

pelirocco

Person_one wrote: »

You suffered, so now you want to spread the misery? How very vindictive!

Maybe we should send children back into factories and up chimneys, after all, our great great grandparents did it and survived, maybe that'd build character too!

Uniform fascism always baffled me when I was at school, still does. There'd be a teacher hovering just inside every doorway to ensure children didn't get more than 5 yards inside the school whilst wearing a coat. In what situation as an adult is it ever a matter of urgency to remove a coat the second you're indoors?

I thought that was the whole point in having children :rotfl:

Savvy_Sue

Seriously, if you and other parents feel strongly about this, I'd get a campaign going. Point out that children are becoming unwell, point to evidence that overheated children don't learn well, point out the unfairness of staff being allowed to strip (if they are), note the difficulties faced by children whose thermostat is already dodgy (children with eczema often overheat really easily and that irritates them more!) and get a campaign going with the governors! There must be parents among their number!

zcrat41

I think its great the school wear blazers - the local school to me have kids in polo shorts and black trousers or skirts. They look awful, untidy, far too casual and frankly slutty on some of the girls.

I think having standards at school teaches you a bit about standards for life.

Having said that I we used to have a hot weather policy where if it went above 25 we were allowed to wear short sleeves.

But having said that I also went to a school where the summer outfit was like the school uniform in home and away and we had to kneel on the floor every day after assembly to show skirts were long enough!!

melancholly

it's a bit like the arbitrary rule that we couldn't wear jumpers or tracksuit trousers for sport until after the autumn term half term.... standing outside in the freezing cold in a t shirt and games skirt.... mad! but i also have to say that no-one died as a result and we just whinged a bit and got on with it! wearing blazers in heat seems silly to me, but it also doesn't seem like the end of the world, and i understand why schools have uniform rules (and how tricky it is once you start making exceptions in some situations and with some students - that can start problems).

Kate78

Some schools believe that if the kids are all smartly dressed in ties and blazers it means that standards of education and behaviour are somehow higher. As if!

I went to a v. old fashioned grammar school in the 90s and sometime around May half term the Head would announce in assembly that summer uniform was allowed. Basically this meant that the boys could take off their ties and blazers and girls could wear hideous checked summer dresses.

So I don't get this recent obsession with blazers at all.

Person_one

zcrat41 wrote: »

I think its great the school wear blazers - the local school to me have kids in polo shorts and black trousers or skirts. They look awful, untidy, far too casual and frankly slutty on some of the girls.

I think having standards at school teaches you a bit about standards for life.

Having said that I we used to have a hot weather policy where if it went above 25 we were allowed to wear short sleeves.

But having said that I also went to a school where the summer outfit was like the school uniform in home and away and we had to kneel on the floor every day after assembly to show skirts were long enough!!

Nice, a grown adult calling children 'slutty'!

I agree that school uniform is a good idea, its cheaper, its a leveller etc. but how does being over fussy about it actually enhance their learning? I don't agree that it prepares them for adult life. If there was no school uniform and then they got a job at 16 that required one, well they'd learn in about 10 minutes that it had to be worn properly or else!

Bufger

They'll find a way to take them off at every available opportunity anyway so i wouldnt worry too much about them. We were made to wear ours all the time but during registration it was on the back of my chair, during lessons - back of the chair, lunchtime it was a goalpost or something to sit on, afternoon lessons - back of the chair. I must have worn it for a maximum of 20 minutes a day (maybe a few minutes more if a teacher came along and made us put them on, we'd take em back off pretty quickly).

They'll survive in their own way

Loz01

They made us wear ours at school, even on a boiling day, with our top button done all the way up - my friend fainted and was sick and the teacher just looked at her as she was on the floor and told someone to get another teacher - STILL DIDNT LET US TAKE THEM OFF!

tightgit_2

Kimberley wrote: »

mena dna women have to wear jackets in the office. Kids have to wear their Blazers. I think they should in class but not outside lunch times etc.

Can you please tell me why?