To think blazers for school are the stupidest idea?

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So impractical
Just looking at a few friends pics, 4yr olds in blazers? It's cute for the first day, but it has to be massively impractical. How do they play?
And watching that educating Essex program, they all have them on in class, it's got to be so uncomfortable.
I understand wanting the to look smart, but I think in the vast majority of cases a sweater could look as smart.
Maybe it's just me, I hated wearing suits for work, very uncomfortable and restrictive

My dd misses her school blazer she loved always having convenient and generous sized pockets.

I wear blazers all the time, they're not uncomfortable or restrictive.

By the time children get to the age of the ones in Educating Essex are, they don't really play.

I wore blazers from age 4, can't understand your problem with them?

Big pockets, smarter, different to what you would slouch in at home, warming, don't get holes or fade or pill

Mine started with blazers at secondary, and they've been brilliant pencil cases, pass-holders, snack hiding, phone stashing life-support systems. The school even sources homework diaries to fit the pockets.

Must be just me then. I find them massively restricting, definitely wouldn't keep them on at work.
I must be just projecting my feelings.
I know the seniors don't play, Alis, but to me they just look uncomfortable. I honestly couldn't concentrate, and I'd have to remove it to do anything practical.

Blazers for 4 year olds are ridiculous.

4 year olds don't need to look smart.

I don't like them, looks ridiculous on a primary child. A smart dress/trousers with a jumper or cardi in the school colours looks good and is comfy and easy to clean. Can you wear one under a coat in winter? Seems unnecessary to me.

Hate blazers. Very old-fashioned idea of what adults wear to work, and based on male dress, not female. Some people may wear them as adults, many do note.

Hate the fact ds's, in common with others, are made of sweaty artificial fabrics. Yet hated my own school blazer for being wool and soggy in wet weather (I went to school in Yorkshire so this was the default...)

Hate the way it means kids at ds's school can't wear proper winter coats even in snow - if they had only jumpers, they could put winter coats over them, the kind of coat that would go over a blazer is too big to stuff in their lockers. Whole other story there actually about lack of anywhere to hang up a coat all day, but blazers certainly do not help.

Thing that pisses me off about my DS's is that it's dry clean only. Dry-cleaning ain't cheap. Neither is it convenient.

When it's boiling hot in summer, and they are lugging these huge schoolbags up and down stairs all day (no lockers), and they are hormone-ridden teens, doesn't matter how often they bathe or change their shirts, the blazer is going to reek. And they aren't allowed to take their blazers off in the halls and other communal areas, only by permission in the classrooms.

I think it's stupid.

I wore blazers at school, they are only restrictive if you havent got a decent sized one.

They're ridiculous I agree.

I wish I had had a blazer at secondary school. So much more practical than the naff top we did have because, as others have said, all the massive pockets. I love having pockets. I am inclinded to think they are a bit much for 4 year olds though.

Love blazers and still wear them. Sons school only has them from year one. Most kids prefer them over a jumper as they're easier to shrug on and off when playing. Also the blazers have vents either side at the back so easier when running. And an inside pocket that they use to sneak toys in.

I think they look uncomfortable on any age, it's like wearing an outdoor jacket indoors.

Hate the way it means kids at ds's school can't wear proper winter coats even in snow - if they had only jumpers, they could put winter coats over them

IME teenagers won't wear a winter coat anyway - even in the depths of winter. We got DD a lovely one that fitted over her blazer and still looked smart - she wore it about once for school

My children have blazers in primary, but I am fairly sure they don't wear them in class. They have school coats that go over the top for winter too.

My children grumble about a lot of their uniform, but have never complained about the blazers.

I wouldn't sit indoors wearing a jacket .I'm not sure why children are expected to.

Pockets are all very well but the effect of having a polyester blazer is that it holds water. DD managed to drown a couple of mobile phones before she cottoned on that the pockets in her blazer were acting like ponds.

They are not even allowed to take them off in the classrooms unless the teacher thinks it's hot.

I'm sure they are quite capable of knowing if they are too hot or not.

That is a very odd rule walk!

I find it odd that teachers can refuse to allow pupils to use the toilet. "Only at breaks" is all very well and good...if you actually need to go during break time.

I went to private schools so had blazers from being small. Pockets were definitely good. Especially when school decided that carrying our bags was bad for our backs so we had to put them in our lockers and carry our books in our arms only swapping them at break times. Sometimes this meant carrying books for 3 different lessons. And by books I mean textbooks (some had 2 different texts), files and exercise books. We could easily have 8-10 books to carry. Plus pencil case. Plus calculator, plus homework diary and so on and so forth. Tissues, pack of polos, lunch card, coin purse, early lunch pass for days you had a lunchtime activity and whatever other random crap we used to have in our pockets. Not mobiles yet at that point though one boy had a pager god knows why.

Now if you want stupid, stupid was putting small girls who were still of an age that they wanted to do cartwheels and handstands in A-Line skirts.

Ah yes. I also used to carry a sewing kit around in my blazer pocket. I could sew up a split skirt invisibly while being worn by the owner in record time.

Like Walk though we couldn't take them off in class unless the teacher said we could and they had to be worn in the corridors between lessons.

I loved my school blazer. It was the fashion at our school to wear your p.e rugby shirt under it but over the top of your shirt and tie. Then us girls wore white knee socks pushed down to mid calf lengh so they ruffled to get this look you had to wear 3 pairs of socks at once.

YY petty school uniform rules that mean you can't take your blazer off are ridiculous. But at ds's school, there's nowhere to put it - the only place to leave clothes is in your locker. If he's allowed to take his blazer off in summer, he'll have to put it on the back of his chair in every lesson, and remember it when he leaves to got to the next one - with 1,300 children, that's a recipe for lost blazers.

No idea why it's considered desirable for all secondary school pupils to look as if they work behind the counter of an old-fashioned building society. Nothing wrong with working behind the counter at a building society, btw, just an odd default style choice for the nation's schools!