sorry, I'm fuming so I need to post. It's probably ridiculous, but anyway.
I went to get ds1 from school today, and he appeared looking sad and worried. He was wearing his plimsolls.
I said where are your shoes? 'I don't have them'. Well where are they love? 'My teacher told me to take them off'.
We went to his classroom as he said they were in his locker, the teacher was still there. By the time we arrived he had told me that she'd asked him to remove his shoes, because they were 'not school shoes', this morning aroud breaktime, during a lesson, and put on his plimsolls instead which he then had to wear all day, meaning he had slipped over several times in the playground and got very dirty and slightly injured legs. (his plims fit, but aren't suitable for fast outdoor running I think).
I approached the teacher and asked if there was a problem with Ds's shoes. She said they were trainers. They're not - they're Geox, very expensive, orthopaedically whatever, posho proper leather shoes which look very smart (when they are polished!) and are absolutely no different in style to many made by Clarks and Startrite for boys to wear to school.
She also said that they are not black, and should be black.
I refuted this as we are still allowed last year's uniform, which states navy or black shoes (they are somewhere in between) and she then changed her line to 'he told me they weren't his school shoes' bollocks
I left it at that, saying 'well as long as he's still allowed to wear them, because he has been since I bought them 6 months ago, and no one's mentioned it'.
I then saw the HT and said what had happened. she immediately said 'we are not allowing trainers' and I had to explain again that Geox shoes aren't trainers, they're bloody expensive, very good for his feet, and I wouldn't spend £45 on trainers NOR would I make my child wear them all day.
She said there is a crossover in footwear designs these days which makes it difficult for them to discriminate. (irrelevant surely). She also said they're not black. I said that we're still wearing old uniform, it's a phasing in period, and the old uniform was black or navy. she said it was black, had always been black and I was wrong.
Anyway, got home, checked old newsletter, it says clearly black or navy (in bold print). I've sent it to her.
I'm mainly just so bloody furious that my child was approached about this, NOT ME, stigmatised for the rest of the day (ok, not a major deal but it makes him look like he's had an accident and had to change, or something) and they were utterly wrong about the shoes in the first place.
I'm so cross.
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JaneBirkin · 07/12/2011 17:35
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