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badmemory

The issues may not be new but they are certainly getting much worse.  A few years ago someone I was working with had a child starting at a high school that had just become an academy.  The new uniform included designer trousers.  I mean designer trousers for an 11 year old!  She thought it was great until I explained that it was a way to prevent any new students from not being among the better off & all about lining their own pockets.  Nothing like using money to keep out the lower classes.  I thought that was the province of grammar schools now but obviously not.  It meant the next years intake were much better off because those who weren't chose a different school as their first choice.  Can I confess to being amused that the school that all the losers went to from being the lowest is now the highest locally.  I have also only ever seen one uniform not fully in place including ties & frankly I just hope she was wearing a thong, if there hadn't been a massive queue of traffic I would have stopped

kayannie

badmemory said:

The issues may not be new but they are certainly getting much worse.  A few years ago someone I was working with had a child starting at a high school that had just become an academy.  The new uniform included designer trousers.  I mean designer trousers for an 11 year old!  She thought it was great until I explained that it was a way to prevent any new students from not being among the better off & all about lining their own pockets.  Nothing like using money to keep out the lower classes.  I thought that was the province of grammar schools now but obviously not.  It meant the next years intake were much better off because those who weren't chose a different school as their first choice.  Can I confess to being amused that the school that all the losers went to from being the lowest is now the highest locally.  I have also only ever seen one uniform not fully in place including ties & frankly I just hope she was wearing a thong, if there hadn't been a massive queue of traffic I would have stopped

We even had to wear regulation baggy navy blue knickers and, even worse, had to strip to those for P.E. (but it was called gym in those far off days!)
KA

badmemory

Do not remind me about those navy blue knickers, although the split skirts for hockey were fine.  Interesting fact - my games teacher was the same as my mothers 20 years earlier but at a different school.  Further interesting fact - she didn't fancy my mother & never managed to get me to play for the school team.  But at lest I got to play in goal at hockey.  Me avoid showers - never.

Greying_Pilgrim

Oh gawd.  I am old enough to have been in primary school when you did PE in your pants and vest - certainly in the first few years and when it was inside in the gym/dining hall.  We had to have PE when 'Music & Movement' was on BBC schools radio.  No easy tape recording or downloading or 'listen again' in them days - if you we're in the hall with the (red leather) radio on at 10.55am (or whatever it was), the programme started without you!

Good auld days...........

Greying X

in_need_of_direction

I remember music & movement but we did it in the classroom 

rtandon27

Music & Movement? - you lot got off easy! 🤣

Across the pond I can remember Army style circuits starting from a very young age, where we had to climb ropes, do hurdles, and run laps on the track!  Hated every blessed second of these sessions with a passion. 

The minute mandatory PE classes became optional, I dropped them like a hot potato.  As I danced in my youth, Pilates, Yoga and swimming that strengthened and lengthened muscles were more apropos.  I happily signed up for these classes at the local community centre after school hours, much to the chagrin of my grandparents who thought I should be hitting the books & studying!

in_need_of_direction

It wasn’t a case of getting off easy, it was more a lack of facilities 

Greying_Pilgrim

in_need_of_direction said:

It wasn’t a case of getting off easy, it was more a lack of facilities 

Too true - plus it ain't that satisfying to "walk like a tree in a storm", " skip to the 1812 overture", spin like a top whilst going round the room in a circle"........  We did have a gym set in our dining hall, it was hooked to the walls, or got pulleyed out (the ropes and rings).  But our teacher didn't particularly like supervising us using that equipment, so 'music & movement' it was.   All the play areas at primary school were hard tarmac or gritty tarmac - tore you to shreds if you fell over 😕

Greying X

rtandon27

Greying_Pilgrim said:

...All the play areas at primary school were hard tarmac or gritty tarmac - tore you to shreds if you fell over 😕

oh yes - I can relate!  Still have the scars on my knees - our 'play' area was tarmac and concrete - with the track painted onto it!

Cheery_Daff

Have you heard Victoria Wood's Music & Movement song? It's certainly very evocative, and I don't even remember doing music and movement 😂

https://youtu.be/RqcOwsA06mU?feature=shared