Secondary schools are so strange with their uniform rules. I often feel like half the issues they have around uniform could be eliminated if they just stopped micromanaging every little thing around them, it is extreme and apart from a few niche/specific jobs, is nowhere near an accurate reflection of the workplace.
If ties and blazers are creating more issues than they solve, get rid. If a child is wearing white socks instead of black socks under their trousers, so what? If a child is feeling warm and wants to carry their blazer instead of wearing it, just let them ffs. How do any of these things affect anyone’s learning? Punishing for such minor things is going to be more detrimental to learning imo. It’s not exactly conductive to fostering a positive learning environment, more like one where there’s friction between teachers and students because the kids feel got at all the time and the teachers are annoyed because the kids can’t follow ‘simple’ rules.
My dc’s school has teachers patrolling surrounding roads at home time, reprimanding anyone who might have the audacity to remove their tie/blazer or untuck their shirt on their way home after a long day. My dc ended up in isolation for ignoring them on their way home one day. It is madness. Imagine if school staff didn’t have to spend so much time policing pointless rules and handing out punishments for things that really don’t need to be made into the big deal they are.