School uniform

[notnaice]

Yet again our school is talking about clamping down on uniform.

They issue warnings that students will be sent home if skirts are too short etc, some people buy the correct style/length. The school tries to enforce it, other parents refuse to cooperate and also moan on facebook etc, leaving the kids whose parents try to cooperate, looking uncool or parents out of pocket, when they too end up going back to non regulation bits of uniform.

Aibu to think, I'm not going to bother trying to send my kids in the correct uniform if they don't actually enforce it, as they say they will, when parental backlash makes it difficult for them?
We live in a naice area and this is one of the best schools in the city by the way. So it's parents thinking their little johnny/Joanna should be allowed to express themselves rather than any other reason.

I think uniforms are good, purely because you know some parents actually have to buy their kids appropriate clothes. Ive worked in schools where the child's uniform is all the kid has to wear, and the school had provided an allowance for decent shoes, or a warm school dress.

Though i think strictness on hair colour is silly Blue hair doesn't effect learning. Piercings I'm not so sure on though purely because there are some you cant remove and might be dangerous in a sport.

Who had a ski pass still attached to their winter coat...

I'm not sure there are any kids at our schools who don't have ski passes attached to their coats...

well I'm talking the 80s here

Is an expired ski pass some sort of look at meeeee fashion accessory now, then??

"Schools are really open about their uniform policy, so why would you choose a school where the policy is so much at odds with your own ideals?"

"At the end of the day when you applied for a place at that school you knew what the uniform rules were."

You don't get to choose, only express a preference. Even a brief look at the education boards around allocations day will show just how many parents don't get any of their preferences, or onky the last one. And of course, the advice from the MN experts there is to make your last choice the one you can be sure if getting in to (better to have a school you hate that works logistically, than take your chances on what's left over).

I don't see how parental uniform preferences could be made to feature in the Admissions Code, so that those who do not want a particular uniform policy can prioritise a school that has it at the time of applying.