Legal action against School due to the cost of School uniforms, Please advise

FatVonD

OP, I sympathise. When my son started primary school the uniform was any grey or red jumper, any red or white polo shirt and any grey trousers. it was great, the red polo shirts stayed looking smart for ages. Then in came a new headmistress who insisted on logos on everything and the uniform suddenly cost 3 times as much.

I did write to the new headmistress asking her to reconsider but it did no good other than marking my card for the next 5 years :rotfl:

dibuzz

We had the trutex PE shirts along with a maroon pleated skirt but the worst thing was an awful stretch towelling thing they called a jumpsuit. It had short sleeves, no legs, a zip up the front and left nothing to the imagination :eek:

duchy

Abbafan1972 wrote: »

From your other thread, it sounds like you can afford one for everyday of the week!

Daughter or sweatshirt ?

Poppy9

peachyprice wrote: »

We had girls visiting from another local school last week for their 6th form induction, OMG, they all looked like total slappers. It was embarrassing as a parent to see girls walking down the street like that, think school girl themed !!!!!!, that is what they looked like, they made our girls look like nuns. The head of that school really needs to take a better look at the image those girls are giving out, it's really quite tragic.

While I respect a school's right to have a minimum/maximum skirt length as part of their uniform I do object to calling girls slappers because of their attire. I believe anyone has the right to wear whatever they wish and it doesn't mean they are "asking" for sexual advances. I wouldn't call a boy a !!!!! because he wears his trousers around the top of his legs exposes his chest.

Janepig

Poppy9 wrote: »

While I respect a school's right to have a minimum/maximum skirt length as part of their uniform I do object to calling girls slappers because of their attire. I believe anyone has the right to wear whatever they wish and it doesn't mean they are "asking" for sexual advances. I wouldn't call a boy a !!!!! because he wears his trousers around the top of his legs exposes his chest.

I agree to a point. There are loads of girls at the comp DD is going to next year who go past the house wearing skirts that are literally just skimming their bums, often with tights and heels. I don't know how or why they're allowed to get away with it, but they look awful. You have permission to shoot me if you see any FB photos of DD going to school like that!! Lol. My old headmaster must be spinning in his grave!

Jx

Poppy9

Janepig wrote: »

I agree to a point. There are loads of girls at the comp DD is going to next year who go past the house wearing skirts that are literally just skimming their bums, often with tights and heels. I don't know how or why they're allowed to get away with it, but they look awful. You have permission to shoot me if you see any FB photos of DD going to school like that!! Lol. My old headmaster must be spinning in his grave!

Jx

It might not be to our taste, just like the boys showing their pants while their trousers head towards their ankles but this is a free country where women can dress as they please.

I would have objected to DD wearing her clothes to school in such a way but then I think about some girls in DD school forced to cover their heads, arms and legs becasue their parents demand it and I wonder what right do I have to force a person to dress in a certain manner.

Complying with a reasonable school policy is different.

pigpen

If a girl turned up at the high school mine are at with a skirt more than an inch or 2 above her knee or lower than mid calf length she would be sent home and boys are not allowed to walk about with their undies or @r$e on show either. They are not allowed heels either and are sent home if there is a parent there or are put in isolation and their parents called if not. Makeup/nail polish/jewellery is absolutely not allowed either!.. removed or isolation again.

I bet half of those girls are doing the old 'roll your skirt top so it is shorter' routine lol

They are not allowed to 'flaunt body parts' on non-uniform days either! And there have been girls sent home for wearing shorts that were to short.

aliasojo

Poppy9 wrote: »

......and I wonder what right do I have to force a person to dress in a certain manner.

Until my daughter is an adult in her own right, I am responsible for her.

I will happily 'force' her to not dress in a certain manner. She can have free choice to a point but I will curtail any of her choices which are not appropriate to her age group.

Dressing the same way a slapper would dress (note I am not calling her a slapper), is not an option for her.

Poppy9

aliasojo wrote: »

Until my daughter is an adult in her own right, I am responsible for her.

I will happily 'force' her to not dress in a certain manner. She can have free choice to a point but I will curtail any of her choices which are not appropriate to her age group.

Dressing the same way a slapper would dress (note I am not calling her a slapper), is not an option for her.

but at what age do you consider her grown up enough to have a say?

I started backing off when DD reached 14. I paid for highlights forher 15th birthday (this way I had a say on the colour) which she had begged for since she was 14.

My DD is 18 and I can remember refusing to buy her a one shoulder T shirt when she was about 7 as I thought it too grown up:o My elder sister bought her one for holidays for fun ( I appreciated the humour). I found a photo the other day of DD wearing it on holiday with her white shorts and thought how beautiful she looked!

pigpen wrote: »

If a girl turned up at the high school mine are at with a skirt more than an inch or 2 above her knee or lower than mid calf length she would be sent home and boys are not allowed to walk about with their undies or @r$e on show either. They are not allowed heels either and are sent home if there is a parent there or are put in isolation and their parents called if not. Makeup/nail polish/jewellery is absolutely not allowed either!.. removed or isolation again.

I bet half of those girls are doing the old 'roll your skirt top so it is shorter' routine lol

They are not allowed to 'flaunt body parts' on non-uniform days either! And there have been girls sent home for wearing shorts that were to short.

DD school was the only supplier of skirts and trousers. The skirts were knee length and sat high on the waist. The trousers also sat high on the waist and were so old fashioned even I wouldn't wear that style. They had no choice though as it was compulsory.

Flat shoes only too plus they had the make up/nail polish rule.

Every girl wore make up and they only handed out the make up wipes if they were orange!

DD wore nail polish so much her geography teacher handed her the remover as she walked into class. I told her if she flaunted the rules and had detention that was her look out. She never did. She only ever had one detention and that was for wearing the charity wrist bands that were the trend.

duchy

I think the age to "back off" for want of a better word......is when a girl is old enough to be aware what message certain styles of dress give to others -with some it's twelve with others it's fifteen-It depends on the child/young woman. Some are quite savvy early - some are clueless til later. I don't regard it as imposing my will but as taking responsibility as a parent until they are mature enough to make their own decisions and deal with understanding that other people will form an opinion of them from their style of dress.