MSE Poll: Are you allowed to buy cheap school uniforms?

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Poll started 4 September 2018
As classrooms open for another year, buying new school uniform can be a costly exercise – especially if you aren't allowed to shop around for it.So does your child's school let you buy from supermarkets, or are you restricted to a specific shop?
Which of these is closest to your situation? You can vote in each category if you've got children in different school.
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The main problem is that other than the ridiculously poor service at this shop, the prices are so expensive. Even skirts have to be bought from there too
as well as complete PE kits including football socks etc. You can queue for an hour to collect orders and with school restarting tomorrow, you currently CANNOT purchase anything from them, you can only collect pre orders as they are too busy!
I’m very much doubting that being forced to purchase from one vendor is legal?
Plus, where do I go to challenge this?
Hope I don’t sound too petty, but it costs us far more to buy the way we are forced to.
They should be made sell badges and/or ties that personalise the uniform and parents could then purchase wherever they wished.
When my daughter was at school I wanted to purchase all her uniform from M&S, but I had to buy the jumper from the school supplier, it was rubbish quality. Now I have grandchildren & the same thing still goes on.
Some people are counting their pennies and need to use the cheaper suppliers, they should be able to!
Not from S Glos are you?
Our school has recently imposed buying trousers from the local uniform shop (we already have to get everything else from them). This has caused a massive backlash from the parents and students but the school is playing hardball, despite the majority of the trouser options not being the best fit. This is all down to a few folk who flaunted the old uniform rules, so rather than deal with the problem they imposed a blanket "you must buy them from here" ruling. How do they check? There's a logo on the trousers to show it's from this particular shop. Where is the logo? Usually hidden by uniform tops, so staff will be checking by asking pupils to raise their tops - that's a bit dodgy, never mind the anti-competition issues. M&S school trousers are far better quality, better fitting and cheaper than the rubbish we are now forced to buy.
Those not complying will be sent home to change. Repeat offenders will be put in isolation until they comply. Bonkers.
Rant Over.
Couldn't complete the survey as there wasn't an option for "everything from one supplier"
My children's public secondary school dictates each item of the uniform including the specific type of blouse, skirt, etc and PE kit (which has to have school badge embroided on both shorts and top). They also stipulate that black socks must be worn for PE, while grey socks are worn with the uniform. Other than the socks none of items which make up the uniform can be bought anywhere but 3 specific shops with no variation on price.
How about the parents on mass send their little darlings to school in generic school cloths of the correct color?
Even a school badge to sew on a suitable jacket should be easy enough.
Schools are there to teach, unless the cloths are not fit for purpose what can be done?
Even sports/ games that require teams, i.e. basket ball, a coloured over vest will be used
Why on the same day couldn't say 20 or so parents with children at the same school send their children to school in the correct colour clothes that aren't the uniform, by way of protest? along the lines of the Suffragettes.
We all know that the only reason for unique uniform from one of three shops that sell it at rip off prices is so the school can get a rake off.