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I'm still in favour of ditching school uniforms entirely and just mandating that they can't have any branding on their clothes.
If schools want to have a uniform, they should pay for it and not charge the parents.
I agree that schools should pay for it, but not that they should be ditched.
I didnt realise how rich some of my friends were until I went to their house. The uniform made us all equals in the classroom
There was no doubt in my school in NZ who was poor and who wasn't, based on how someone's clothes fit them or how worn they were. The youngest in a poor family would have some very worn clothes that had been passed down from their siblings. Often 2 sizes too big or too small.
right, which is a real issue for the parents having to buy the uniforms every year. Im wishing for an ideal scenario where the school is tasked with trading in/out uniforms year after year and the parents just wash them
Will not stop wealthy parents buying new.
Will just take burden of poor while continuing to hilight the difference in quality.
I agree it wont place a top cap on wealth displays, but it will raise the bottom cap
Being judged for my mum "shopping at Netto" is still better than being judged for my mum not affording groceries at all. (Netto being the school's theoretical free distribution network, and groceries being the uniforms in this regretful metaphor)
If the school are providing it then that sets a lower floor for how bad it can be. Currently poor kids will just keep wearing it until there are too many holes for it to work as clothing or they run out of siblings to pass it down to.
I didnt realise how rich some of my friends were until I went to their house. The uniform made us all equals in the classroom
Uniforms have never done that in my experience, because there are plenty of wealth signifiers outside of uniforms kids will still notice (pencil cases, bags, PE trainers, mobile phones etc), and even the uniforms themselves are not worn equally. The rich kids have clean uniforms that get regular replaced each term, the poor ones had dirty and ill fitting hand-me-downs.
Yes but these will be minor differences (check out my clean school mandated tennis shoes) as opposed to major ones (check out my £3,000 nikes)
Can you even tell the difference between a $50 pair of shoes from $3k? I sure cant.
i cant either, but my 16 year old material obsessed cousin definitely can, and he's way more representative of the population than I am
Because it isn't the 1800s anymore? Why are schools pushing so far backwards now. When I went to school it was a jumper with the school logo on it, quite a bit cheaper to buy than the kinds of stuff schools are insisting on these days.
You could even buy your own plain jumper in the right colour and sew the badge on it.
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