Uniform Blazer pocket doesnt fit logo badge

it is a cheap and nasty material, immovable and itchy. Sorry, but not having her sat in class focusing on that rather than being as comfortable as possible with both blazer and jumper. If she has to wear a blazer, it will be a half decent one that she feels comfortable in

Except that’s she’s 100% not going to feel comfortable in it if she’s bullied for wearing the wrong thing. I remember the girl at my school who always wore the wrong clothes, she had literally no friends. (I would feel sorry for her but she Facebook friended me a couple of years ago and it turn out she’s a Britain First-supporting racist, so frankly I don’t really give a shit.) On the assumption that you like your daughter and want her to have friends, buy her the right blazer or don’t give her a blazer at all (nobody at our school wore ours except one boy. He didn’t have any friends either).

put the badge where it should go, centered over the pocket. yes it may mean bits overflow on either side.

Oh and way to make anyone who may be reading this thread and struggling to buy uniform feel shit

Hmmm

So when someone posts saying they are skint and cant afford the logo stuff, poster after poster suggest cutting off the logos and sewing them on it asking if they do a badge separately that can be sewn onto a blazer as asda and sainsbury do blazers for about 11 pounds.

But someone does that and even when the uniform policy allows it and the uniform.supplier actually sells a sew on badge suddenly the kid is getting a kicking?

Poor kid.

My mum used to do this. And spend time explaining why ours was really better than the one everyone else had.
I hated it. All I wanted to do was fit in with everyone else. At times it probably didn't look that dissimilar, but it felt it.
I'd at least have liked the option, although I think it would have been clear which I was expected to choose.

Thankfully for me, I had a nice set of friends who were nice about such things and I don't ever remember having any comments. But dsis did.

And yes, one of the things was a different blazer, which I had to sew the emblem onto.

@Dragonmama apparently braces are 'in' at the moment, so don't worry about that

Oh! You’re that Mum.

I’m a bit of a bleeding heart, fuck the establishment type but I don’t use my DD as a stalking horse.

She’s also starting secondary this week and her uniform is bloody awful - stiff and shiny but I bought exactly the same blazer and jumper as everybody else. The trousers came from M&S but that’s where all the others got theirs. Starting secondary is about fitting in - she’s already got glasses and train track braces, I’ll be damned if I’m doing anything to make her a target for bullying or a nickname she can’t shake off for years.

I have no reason to report and my comment about the thread not being real was a short hand way to say that I didn't think anyone would be so stupid as this, but as you say, we are where we are...

I feel for your DD. Maybe she'll grow up resilient and principled. Or maybe she'll be starting threads on a forum like MN, saying "why did my Mum do this?"

You can't control whether children will be bullied. I expected DD2 to be (ASD), but she's seemed to be invisible to bullies float through without issue so far. One thing I do know is that I'm not going to see her bullied because of my decisions on clothing. So I get her the clothes she needs that are nice but don't stand out from the crowd, particularly. I won't stop her wearing her choice of clothing to non-uniform days, but I will say "do you think those styles match, DD?" if she's making a particularly disastrous choice, to give her the opportunity to rethink if she wants to.

Gosh the drama on here. OP has stated several times that alternative blazers are permitted uniform. I sort of agree with the general sentiment that it'd be easier just to buy the standard issue blazer and kids are unlikely to thank you for a "better quality" blazer but MN is obsessed with the idea that you can predict and therefore prevent what kids will find to pick on and I just don't think it works that way. And that is coming from someone whose secondary years were plagued by bullying.

Even if the other kids don't tease her for it, she could still end up feeling uncomfortable for sticking out amongst the crowd, even for something as small as a slightly different colour blazer. When I started secondary school there was the option of a uniform bought from the uniform shop or one bought from a tailor - my grandparents paid for me to have the tailor made uniform which was a slightly different colour and style. There were only about three of us in the whole year that had the tailor uniform, and although I don't remember being teased for it , I did feel painfully self conscious about being different to everyone else which wasn't great on top of everything else that comes with settling in to a new school and peer group.

Why didn't you let her go in her own clothes

But I'm the parent who sent her daughter to school in school uniform on the third non-uniform day in less than 4 weeks of term

Why would you do this - i understand that you were protesting via your DD but in reality it is only the disorganised dc that do this so just marks her our as one of those ( and to being called a loser). You shouldn't be using your DD's clothing to protest about things you don't like about a school - you should do it directly yourself.

Glad you noticed I posted that @Faultymain5

I just thought she wouldn't itch or whatever if she had something else on underneath it

I do however accept that she may look different to many other kids, but we really are where we are. But I'm the parent who sent her daughter to school in school uniform on the third non-uniform day in less than 4 weeks of term and complained. So bad parent probably. Maybe, definitely

Any reason you expect your DD to do this? Because it makes her bear the brunt of your own beliefs - it's her school experience, not yours to impose your beliefs about uniform on.

The daughter is not going to get in trouble for wearing a non-standard blazer if the school sell the badges separately.

See if there’s a parents Facebook group for the school or new parents and ask on there...

Schools can and often do discipline students for having the incorrect uniform or for wearing it incorrect uniform.

It doesn't matter how you try now to brazen it out on here. This is incorrect uniform. You will end up with egg on your face if they contact you about it. They could even suspend your DD for it. That used to happen at my DDs' schools.

Whatever you do, it will look very different. Why on earth did you not get the right blazer? It is the outer garment and the one that everyone will immediately see, therefore it is doubly important that it conforms properly. You are not making any sense.

You are setting your child up for problems here. M & S certainly rarely features amongst the cool brands for teenagers anyway, so if you think you have done her some sort of a favour there then you are likely to be disappointed. It is a brand I like wearing, but with the exception of it's underwear section and food hall, my DDs have never agreed.

Just get the proper uniform. You'll probably be made to in the end anyway.

You are making work for yourself with this sewing on of the logo badge as the proper blazer would surely come with it already in place! Plus you are wasting your time.

I bet your DD's school has 'invisible' pockets like this one. Neater than those massive ones.