School Uniforms - Good or Bad??

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Does anyone remember their first day at school? I don't think i do but i certainly do remember my first teacher's name - Mrs Woolgar and have several memories of Infant school.

jellyhead

hi, i was the same when my son started school, i thought he looked very grown up (but tiny) in his school uniform. even though it was a polo shirt rather than a proper shirt with buttons i did get him the polo and sweatshirt with the school logo on to begin with and he looked sooooo cute lol!

our school does have a lost property area but i've always found that when something goes missing another child has taken it home with them and even though my sons name tag is sewn into everything the parents of the other child never seem to notice it! last term a teacher brought my sons jumper out to him, saying he'd left it in her classroom during the music lesson. he was already wearing his sweatshirt but the one she had was definitely his, some other kid had been wearing it for 9 months!! his name was so prominent, there's no way that kid or the parents could have missed it, they must have decided it didn't matter ... grrrrr!

rushnowt

jellyhead wrote:

our school does have a lost property area but i've always found that when something goes missing another child has taken it home with them and even though my sons name tag is sewn into everything the parents of the other child never seem to notice it! last term a teacher brought my sons jumper out to him, saying he'd left it in her classroom during the music lesson. he was already wearing his sweatshirt but the one she had was definitely his, some other kid had been wearing it for 9 months!! his name was so prominent, there's no way that kid or the parents could have missed it, they must have decided it didn't matter ... grrrrr!

Hi jellyhead

I think this is the main problem with my kids school, i know its easy for kids to get mixed up and take the wrong items home, my kids have done it, however when this happens to me I launder the item and return it to school the following day. I'd be happy if I could just get my kids stuff back LOL, I guess not everyone reads the name label :rolleyes:

Becles

jellyhead wrote:

our school does have a lost property area but i've always found that when something goes missing another child has taken it home with them and even though my sons name tag is sewn into everything the parents of the other child never seem to notice it!

Last year, my son came home with a PE kit that wasn't his. It didn't have a name in it. I went back to the teacher and gave her that PE kit and asked if anyone had handed my sons in. She said no. Nobody did hand his PE kit in, even though his name is on one of those embroidered name tags in a prominent place. I ended up with no PE kit and had to buy new :mad:

At the moment, my youngest has a shirt that isn't his and the oldest has a pair of trousers that are not his. Both the lost pairs were labelled with names but have never been returned. This time I'm hanging on to the unlabelled stuff that isn't ours until we get ours back.

jellyhead

hi becles, i think that's what i'll do next time. i couldn't hang on to something that was named though. my son and his friend were funny after swimming in year 2 though, they wore each others polo shirts by accident - all day because swimming was first thing. they are the smallest and largest children in the year, my son was in age 4 clothes and his friend was in age 10 clothes - how his friend managed to get such a tiny shirt on is beyond me lol! we both washed the shirts and returned them next morning lol! they were both named anyway. but some things like PE kit you don't have spares of.

Savvy_Sue

jellyhead wrote:

my son and his friend were funny after swimming in year 2 though, they wore each others polo shirts by accident - all day because swimming was first thing. they are the smallest and largest children in the year, my son was in age 4 clothes and his friend was in age 10 clothes - how his friend managed to get such a tiny shirt on is beyond me lol!

LOL! My older boys both wear 'brief' style pants, but DH and youngest son wear boxers. One day DH came in from work complaining bitterly that he'd had the wrong pants on all day! Mind you I think he was quite chuffed he could fit into 12 year old pants: no way I could if I had a daughter that age!!!

jellyhead

lol!

ooops, i was going to leave it at that but wasn't allowed to submit a message of less than 10 characters, is this to stop people like me just leaving smilies?

charlotte3

I am for school uniform. My 12 year old daughter tries to push the boundaries as it is even with a uniform by wanting huge flares etc. which she does not get! It also saves time in the morning, if she had to decide what to wear then she probably wouldn't get to school until midday!

It is interesting that my two boys age 9 and 16 aren't bothered about wearing/not wearing school uniform though.

System

Uniform for me anytime - even when i had to kit out 4 kids each year. However, i have noticed the pressure at my sons school over the last few years to encourage the parents to buy uniform from the school with the schools name on. I grumbled at Minime having to wear a school PE T shirt and have a school pump bag, but recently its school knitwear and school polo shirts. Last year i had words with my sons headmistress as i sent him in a plain white polo shirt. She passed comment to my son about having to wear one with the schools name on. I politely pointed out that the children who wear school shirts dont have the school name printed on and since they are only allowed to wear them from May - July, it isnt worth paying the extra for something that will be discarded as he has outgrown it by the next year. The quality of the ones i bought from Marks and Spencer was far better than the stuff they were selling, and they were half the price.

Savvy_Sue

Judi wrote:

Last year i had words with my sons headmistress as i sent him in a plain white polo shirt. She passed comment to my son about having to wear one with the schools name on.

This makes me so cross! It may be reasonable to make a remark to a child at Secondary School about what they are wearing - anyone else leave the house in a knee length skirt and roll it up short as soon as their mum wasn't watching? - but for a child at Junior School it is hardly likely to be their responsibility if they are not 'correctly' dressed, and singling them out is WRONG, IMO.

Surely the appropriate response is for the school to talk to the parents!

The head at the junior school my boys used to go to decided in her wisdom to introduce blazers and ties as uniform. And not just any old blazer, dark red ones, only available through the school. My friend is a local Health Visitor, and says she spends hours trying to get uniform grants for needy families, especially where there are several children at the school. Comments are made to children who are not wearing uniform, and not surprisingly, they get upset about it and pester their mums.

I am SO glad we moved out of the area before this happened!