Just read the bloody uniform policy!!!

Fine, it’s the way you are commenting about my posts though, but not directly to me. Clearly not all offices give a shit, I hold my hands up. But wow.

Not having expensive logo shoes is hardly ridiculous rule though !

It isn't picky in the slightest, no. There's a substantial gulf between the claim that nobody who has an office job is allowed flip flops and someone saying in their personal and by definition limited experience it hasn't been allowed.

I don't disagree with the rest though.

Children will only grow into rule-respecting adults if the majority of the rules they are expected to follow are sound and sensible.

The more ridiculous rules forced onto children, the more children will think rules are foolish.

Uniform or not there will always be the flashy ones - it'll be the bag or the coat or the PE trainers and VW ballet flats @ £100 are surely not common. And what kid would even recognise that?

I think some PP totally miss the point

Not eveyone can afford VW shoes for their teen/tween so that's why they have this rule

Imagine being the one in Sainos mary janes and all your mates are rocking the designer and expensive pumps

Blame the parents for that. They chose to send them to school wearing the incorrect uniform.
I agree. The parents giving the sad face in the local press are always keen to talk about missed learning and how much they care about learning, but they clearly didn't care that much because they're more bothered about ignoring simple rules and buying their children designer ballet flats than school uniform.

DoItAgainPlz I agree with you on the dark grey Vs charcoal grey. That level of inspecting is unreasonable to me. Just say dark grey and be done with it as long as they're quite clearly a pair of darker grey school trousers. There's always some difference between M&S, Asda, Next, John Lewis etc.

Jesus Christ. Picky much?

My personal experience is that offices don’t allow staff to wear flip flops due to safety, especially if a staff member would walk up and down stairs in them. Work places can be held liable if a member of staff has an accident like that, so as far as I was aware, it was sensible to back themselves up and for general safety. Just the same as as how you’re not supposed to wear flip flops while driving. Whether people pull staff up on it is a different matter. I personally love flip flops but I can also understand why that office rule has been there.

Anyway, the point is, schools go too far with their shoe rules and don’t reflect most jobs. Just let people be comfortable but safe.

But the kids shouldn't have to suffer in the first instance.

If it's happening every day and it's one or two kids then fair enough.

But they should be given the kindness of being allowed them to settle in the first few days.

Sending 100+ hungry kids home isn't an intelligent solution to this problem.

Vivienne westwood for young school kids?

Idiots.

My school had a rule that trousers had to be dark grey, and certainly NOT charcoal or black.

I have never looked at a pair of school trousers and taken any notice of the colour. Nor do I think it particularly offensive to wear charcoal instead of dark grey. I personally can't tell the difference.

There are different shades of grey as it is if you're buying from different shops, and as this was before internet shopping really took off, it meant traipsing around different towns and cities to find some which were both in stock and which were well fitting.

They also checked socks too - which couldn't be seen under the trousers. They had to be dark grey. Who cares if they're grey, black or navy?! You can't see them. I appreciate having a rule against white socks or trainer socks, but lining everyone up and sending a threatening letter home because someone's sock had a stripe at the top or was slightly off colour is and was ridiculous.

Blame the parents for that. They chose to send them to school wearing the incorrect uniform.

I think it's wrong that these kids are sent home or have to spend the day sitting alone in a room.

Particularly if they're just starting that school and it's the first day.

That’s the wrong school.

That’s the wrong school.

I’ve just had a look at the link and it says no pumps while the illustration of an acceptable girls shoe looks remarkably like a pump a (albeit with a thick sole).

I don't see the relevance of what is worn in court/an office/ anyway.

Kids have their lifetimes to have to dress up if they have to, I really don't see the necessity to spend their school careers dressed like it. Give them something cool and comfortable like polos.

They don't need to wear a blazer for 6 years to "get used to it" bonkers/

Yeah, people are certainly allowed to claim that office workers per se can't wear flip flops. But it'll be bollocks.

During an assembly (always this time of year) being asked to wear them and stand with arms crossed.

Maybe it'll help them decide to have careers you don't have to have fussy clothes for!

Obviously, you can say what you want! I was just pointing out that you were wrong. Not every office is like your office.

Blazers are a ridiculous idea anyway.Uncomfortable, expensive, anachronistic.
I agree.
When I've worked in schools with blazers I've always said in the first lesson that in my classroom students can take them on and off as required and to consider that any permission that's required for the whole year.

It is pretty stupid that they've become more common during a period when working wear has become less fusty and pointless.

Blazers are a ridiculous idea anyway. Uncomfortable, expensive, anachronistic.

So what was the point of a uniform if they were wearing a smock over it?

There are guidelines on safe temperatures for classrooms - iirc 28 degrees is considered unacceptable .. I think that's the WHO who set that guideline. We've had a couple of 30 degree days this year. There are thermometers in the classes.