School Uniform?

jellyhead

My son's school are giving detention to anyone who wears a black hoodie at the moment.

The recent letter about new strictness on uniforms made it look as if the black hoodies were unacceptable as alternatives to the school logo jumper - but no, they are stopping the kids from wearing them as coats. You can wear any other kind of coat, but not a black hoodie.

Because there are no lockers or cloakrooms the kids tend to wear a hoodie because it can be shoved into the schoolbag during the day, whereas a coat has to be lugged around along with PE kit etc.

My son is currently in trouble for pointing out a girl who was wearing a short, tight leopard print coat with fur, and suggesting that her coat was also a 'fashion extreme'. He has a point though, they say no extremes of fashion but what they really mean is no goth/emo/rock. They don't mind hair with tramlines and shapes shaved into it, it's just boys with long hair that they object to. The boys have been told to tie their hair up for PE but the girls don't have to. School is coming down hard on one particular type of fashion while ignoring the excesses in other types of fashion.

The school 2 miles away actually has black hoodies as part of their uniform, which may be a factor. My son feels victimised though, bless him.

OrkneyStar

jellyhead wrote: »

Nowadays I think mine would have been diagnosed with ADHD. She was a nightmare, always in my face, never shut up, always lying and stealing, often hiding or breaking everything that belonged to me. She had tantrums and had huge arguments and sometimes fights with my mum. She used to have screaming arguments with other people's parents too.

My mum always just sighed and said 'oh go and play' ... I used to dream of silence, of having a place where I could read a library book without anyone invading my space.

I was very sulky and whiny, kept saying everything wasn't fair :rotfl:

I spent a lot of time with my younger brothers and often slept in their room on the floor. I was a very prickly, over-sensitive child.

Doesn't sound much fun. Actually I think the main problem with us was the 5 yr age gap, meaning it took until I was about 14-15 that we were starting to have more in common.....after all what 12 yr old wants to play dolls with her 7 yr old sister ? I was downstairs when she 'studied' and eventually we got separate rooms, so I had my own to study in by then.

jellyhead

There's only 11 months between us but we still didn't have much in common. Things are fine now, we started to get on when we both had children.

lostinrates

This school attitide amazes me. My private school had uniform policy chanes while i was there and parents were given three years to make the changes, and the uniform was hugely expensive, especially for borders who were required to have more uniform, but there was a second hand shop operated through the school or pta.

I cannot fathom why a school would prevent second hand clothes wear....if they are insisting on quality expensive items they will almost certainly survive beyond the time the child wears them before growing. Its greener, allows less waste of money so its there for other things the school holds its hands out for.