School Uniforms - Good or Bad??

JayS_3

Spendless wrote:

Yep. I know of 3 kids with them all children are aged 13 to 14! One of the children claimed you were bullied for not having them!

Mine is only in reception year, so some time to go yet!!

Could the parents approach the school to get them banned? The school should be sympathetic if bullying is involved.

Becles

Uniform every time for me.

My sons are in primary where they wear shirt, tie and v necked jumper. It does look much smarter than the other school where children wear polo shirts and sweat shirts.

When I went to secondary school, it had a no uniform policy. The head insisted this was best so children could show individuality. At the time Pepe jeans (with the plastic key fob on) and Hi Tec baseball boots with the huge tongues.

My parents were not that well off and couldn't afford fasionable clothes. I used to go to school in Geordie Jeans (local cheap jean shop) and unbranded trainers. I suffered a lot of cruel taunts about not wearing fashion brands and was excluded from the 'in crowd'. Sounds daft now, but these things matter when you are a teenager.

As there was no uniform, many girls went in with immaculate hair and make up on. After PE you couldn't get moved in the changing room for them re-doing their hair and reapplying make up. I also got taunted for not wearing make up and keeping my hair tied back in a ponytail.

I was really unhappy at secondary school and feel I would have fitted in better had we all been dressed in the same clothes due to having a uniform.

Queenie

JayS .... ROFLMAO!! I am so sorry, but I couldn't help but spew coffee over my monitor laughing at the wonderful taste and style of your Heads daughter!
What did she grow up to be?

I'm so glad you were not permanently scarred by the outfit

JayS_3

Queenie wrote:

JayS .... ROFLMAO!! I am so sorry, but I couldn't help but spew coffee over my monitor laughing at the wonderful taste and style of your Heads daughter!
What did she grow up to be?

I'm so glad you were not permanently scarred by the outfit

The Head's daughter, at the time was a 'deb' in London, very in with the 'in crowd'. She later took over the school when her mother died - it was bad enough when I was there, goodness knows what it was like when she took over.

And I was, absolutely, very permanently scarred by THAT uniform, and THAT school. (I think is explains my paranoia, and tics... .... .... ....)

But I still agree with sensible school uniform, at a good well-balanced ordinary state school.

Spendless

JayS wrote:

Could the parents approach the school to get them banned? The school should be sympathetic if bullying is involved.

That is the view/approach i would take if it was my own child,but i only have the word of a teenager,so is it true or is it an excuse to get expensive shoes like the rest of their peers (i don't know).

All the teenagers i have mentioned with them, their parents have quite happily bought them for them!

Will see what the next few years brings, and whether they all turn into young adults with no concept of how much things cost.

Suppose that's the advantage of having mine later than my friends. I can watch where they go wrong and try not to make the same mistakes (LOL)

JayS_3

Ooo, what is the new symbol about 'Add to JayS's reputation'.

Looks like the sort of place bullying might happen,

(see I told you I was paranoid).:eek:

Lillibet_2

Uniform for me, afraid I would prefer the polo shirts & sweatshirts over ties & blazers for every age though, simply as they are more robust for frequent washing & don't need ironng! I would flatly refuse to buy new embroidered badge items each year though & let the school take me on over it! Buy them once then cut out the logos & velcro/wonder-web them onto the next size up from Tesco!
At primary school I had to wear a beret in the winter & a straw boater in the summer! School rules didnt permit any make up until 6th form, when it had to be "discreet" or jewellery except stud ear-rings for the girs. Expect now they'd be done for sexual discrimination or something! Oh, and my best friend's secondary school required a full length grey cloak : She tells me she still has nightmares about it!

JayS_3

Lillibet wrote:

Uniform for me, afraid I would prefer the polo shirts & sweatshirts over ties & blazers for every age though, simply as they are more robust for frequent washing & don't need ironng! I would flatly refuse to buy new embroidered badge items each year though & let the school take me on over it! Buy them once then cut out the logos & velcro/wonder-web them onto the next size up from Tesco!
At primary school I had to wear a beret in the winter & a straw boater in the summer! School rules didnt permit any make up until 6th form, when it had to be "discreet" or jewellery except stud ear-rings for the girs. Expect now they'd be done for sexual discrimination or something! Oh, and my best friend's secondary school required a full length grey cloak : She tells me she still has nightmares about it!

Wonder if we went to the same school, grey cloaks have that affect on you.

Spendless

Lillibet wrote:

I would flatly refuse to buy new embroidered badge items each year though & let the school take me on over it! Buy them once then cut out the logos & velcro/wonder-web them onto the next size up from Tesco!
!

It's not always as simple as that though. Sons logo is printed onto his sweatshirt and other uniforms have the logo woven into the clothing.

[Deleted User]

Wow all these thoughts from past and present are really interesting, glad i posted this now. Its great. FYI i think uniform is a good idea. I help out at my neices primary school reading with the children. Its the only school left in the area which still requires ties and v-neck embossed knitted jumpers. The children do look very very smart compared to the more relaxed tshirts/sweatshirts. I do understand that they are probably far easier to wash and wear though.

When i was at tshirts and sweatshirts weren't around and all schools had ties and v-necks. I do think it encourages pride in the school and when moving onto the work front, you have an idea of what is expected and dress code. Many students leaving school now, probably would have no idea how to do up a tie.

Still i guess schools have to go by what parents and pupils want to a certain extent.