Uniform Blazer pocket doesnt fit logo badge

I think you may find this blazer gets 'lost' fairly quickly.

I don't but the school uniform shop blazer either. They never quite fit my ds properly and by god they virtually crackle as he walks. And they're upwards of £60!

The school office sell the badges separately (a fiver) and this year we went to the sales and got him a £130 blazer from m and s in the sale for £8. Much comfier, much better fit, and totally 'allowed'. Although the badge is a regular size!

Try taking the pocket off and sew it where its supposed to go, don't sew it somewhere else, that is asking for questions and bullying.

Since it can just go anywhere and doesn’t specify where, why not sew it on the back so she can look like a hells angel?

"Since it can just go anywhere and doesn’t specify where, why not sew it on the back so she can look like a hells angel"

😂😂😂😂😂

@SparklyMagpie me too! Makes me laugh every time!

Since it can just go anywhere and doesn’t specify where, why not sew it on the back so she can look like a hells angel?

Poor kid.

Yeah you can't just say all done without showing us a pic of the finished blazer

Sorry, but not having her sat in class focusing on that rather than being as comfortable as possible with both blazer and jumper.

But you're happy to have her in class dreading break and lunch times cos she knows she'll be picked on.

Another vote for buying the school blazer.

Starting secondary school is enough of a challenge, without turning up in a slightly different colour blazer with a hand-sewn badge that doesn't fit the pocket. When everyone is wearing a uniform, small differences are very noticeable.

Most 11 year olds would rather wear the same blazer as everyone else. They don't care about the quality of the fabric (the school ones are usually polyester, which washes well and dries quickly).

I started secondary school with a different ("more practical") haircut to everyone else, different ("well-made") shoes and a different ("better quality, will last") type of bag. I stuck out like a sore thumb and felt self-conscious - it was horrible.

If you can afford the school blazer, buy it.

How are you going to stop them from discipling her? They won't ask your permission in advance. I'm sure that you may well win an intellectual debate with them regarding the wording of their policy. And you really believe that while you have that argument your DD will be silently thanking you for her marginally less crispy, slightly wrong navy, weirdly badged blazer?

We had a kid at our school called 'stig of the dump' because someone saw her mum go into a charity shop.

She was called stig of the dump for the next three years.

Kids are fuckers, talk about handing them ammunition

@ShirleyPhallus 😂😂😂 that's what I was going to quote but thought best not, but that is one of my favourite bits of any stand up, ever!! 😂😂

Wait if she's going to be wearing a jumper under the blazer anyway, then why does it matter if the official one is shit material?

@SparklyMagpie I love that whole bit he does - “we called a kid Baghdad, because ONCE he wore a bag that his dad bought”

Agree with the others OP. Kids are cruel and you’re setting your daughter up here

She’ll be roasting hot sat in a jumper and her blazer
My 14 year old only has a shirt then blazer not a thick wool one just a light one and he wears it in corridors and in and out of school but it’s off in class. He has a uniform one the same as all of the other kids, but the badge comes attached. I just think you’re setting her up to be different on her first sat day, it’s hard enough. Your M&S blazer may be better quality but it’s not the same and the badge is going to look ridiculous if it’s over a pocket or in an incorrect place. Speak to school re issues with blazer fabric. Surely she’ll have a shirt on? Between her and the jumper and a itchy blazer?

It's sad to hear these stories from some PP's

It reminds me of one of my fave stand ups by Greg Davies when he lists all the nicknames kids had at his high school, some for really pointless things lol, but it's so true and I think everyone had these are their school

For a parent to deliberately be setting them up for their teenage years over being stubborn aswell as over something the parent won't be wearing, is quite frankly disgusting

Again I take it with a pinch of salt though

I feel really sorry for your poor child. I don’t understand why you’d contribute to them
Being bullied. Comfort is not equal to how cruel kids can be at school. I hope it works out but I doubt it.

Separately though OP I’d also be fucking annoyed that you were effectively shoehorned into buying a crappy blazer when a blazer in the right colour from M and D plus badge should be a viable option!

At my DD's secondary, they have to have a 'uniform card' in that top pocket and they do checks in tutor time to make sure it's there.

@JoceHark “blazer wanker” 🤣 reminds me of my own blazer wanker experience. Me and my sister started a new primary school, the blazer was navy and the one for the previous school had been royal blue. My mum GOT THE BADGE FOR THE NEW SCHOOL AND SEWED IT ON THE ROYAL BLUE BLAZER. God even now all these years later we still cringe when we think about what a pair of tits we looked and felt standing out like a pair of sore thumbs in the playground. THE WORST THING EVER

I'd contact the school tomorrow before chopping any pockets off.

What a stupid decision , you have just set your child up to be bullied!

OP yes my childhood was mean. I was mean. But you are wrong about projecting.

Kids are mean. It's a story as old as time. YOU have no right to put your daughter up for that because you don't feel like changing it now. YOU bought the wrong blazer. You are now trying to find a fix for it. The only acceptable fix is going tomorrow and buying her the school blazer and returning that one.

Please OP. Do this for your daughter and listen to all the pp on here who are telling you the same thing.