To be fucked off at a lot of schools?

[KitBee]

Blazers on in this a weather. Really?

Top buttons too.

DSis school is saying it's to enhance work ethic and get you use to the work place by following rules like these.

Cannot think of many work places who would purposely make you uncomfortable like this

DS is still in utero. I'm praying they change these stupid rules nationally very soon, and make it bad practise to force children to swelter like this.

I tried to be diplomatic but it's just so ridiculous isn't it? I work in a 'professional' job which sometimes needs a uniform. We have had an email sent around saying that some uniform rules are relaxed because of the heatwave. As they should be.

And YY to preschool children learning to sort clothes! I love uniform but there is such a difference between the roughly enforced uniform at primary and the obsessive rules (which make you just itch to break them) of uniform at secondary. I would go batshit if my kids were throwing up or fainting and I very rarely officially complain.

GreenTulips
I don't think I've missed the point!
A loose knee length dress in a dark check (not sweat or menses revealing) is perfect for hot weather. It can also be worn with salwar piss off the red tip readers

I stopped taking my blazer into school on very hot days. Can't tell me to put it on if it's not in the building.

Sadly I doubt it'll change. I left school 11 years ago and it was a rule then.

Dawned, I didn't think you had either!

My son's school gives them detentions if they don't have their sweatshirts on them even if they don't have to wear them.

My Ds's school the same and no YANBU. Unfortunately Ds also has to wear his PE kit under his uniform too (long story!) and he still isn't allowed to remove his blazer. The lad melts every PE day let alone days like this.

Fingers crossed that he will do really well regardless of daft rules, become self employed and then he can work naked if it suits .

Despite not having received a no blazer email yet, I'm pleased to report dd said she never wore her blazer all day today and nothing was said. I'd always thought her teachers were sane, reasonable people and haven't changed my mind.

My school doesn't enforce a blazer in any weather. When in the classroom, pupils take them off without issue. The lower school wear polo neck tshirt and jumpers. They do the same. I teach Drama, you would be amazed at the uses pupils find for their jumpers, blazers and ties in my classroom!

Maybe they are self conscious about their body.

True although I'm not sure every boy is/was but judging by this thread, many will be looking at these students coming and going to school and immediately assuming the school has made them wear their blazers...

Ds has just come home (Indy secondary with strict uniform). No blazers & ties to be worn for the next few days.

They can take them off at our school people use their common sense. Rooms air conditioned at our school.

I swan about whatever I'm wearing 😄

That's an excellent point hesterson.

Ds came home today saying they've been told not to take blazers in now until they're told otherwise.
He also said that school have said if the building gets too hot (he thinks they said over 30° inside) then they'll shut school.
I just said take keys (I usually collect after work) and I'm sure if he texts nanny she'll come and get him rather than make him walk 4.6 miles home in this heat!

YABU for making generalised comments about schools

YABU as you don't even have a child at school

YABU for complaining about what the teachers are wearing

YABU for starting a thread were posters can post about what teachers used to do.

BUT

YANBU for disproving that having a grammar school education means that you are intelligent.

Re uniform preparing kids for employment - the only jobs i can think of where you're routinely required to wear clothes/PPE that can make you overheat, are things like firefighter or land mine clearance. Which 1) risk of death without the gear, can't be said for school uniform 2) these aren't the kind of jobs you do straight from school and 3) the employees have signed up to it (can't imagine someone with sensory issues around clothing/wearing stuff, could/would go into such careers - but in effect everyone has to go to school ).

Sprogletsmuvva

Factory workers
Nurses
doctors
chemical cleaning
Sewage plant worker
Oil and gas plants (on land)
Police
security guards
RNLI
Army
coal miner

I am fairly sure that I can come up with more. But I don't like uniform either and have seen those that bemoan dress codes as well.

Hi Jo Tweedy for the Mail Online.

Slow news day or just CBA?

Sproglets actually wrote clothes that can make you overheat, not uniform in general.

reup

she said
"wear clothes/PPE"

I am pointing out that are many professions/jobs that require clothes/PPE that make you over heat.

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4617990/Mum-rages-son-forced-wear-blazer-heatwave.html

It is mad to have to wear blazers. DS school have said no ties and open necks in this weather.

I used to work in a job where I attended court, and you did need to ask permission from the Judge to take your blazer/jacket off. A colleague asked for permission and the judge replied " what do you think this is? A speakeasy? You'll be asking to remove your trousers next!"

It's mad. I went to a top grammar and they didn't give a fig about uniform so long as it was vaguely the right colour. Still came in the top 5 of the league tables every year so can't have been that bad for our work ethic!

Tooth does your old school still have that dress code?

DT's are at Uni now but I remember DS getting a detention for taking his sweatshirt off during hot weather. DH, who is a GP, sent a note back to the school, saying that DS had his permission as his father and a doctor to remove his sweatshirt during hot weather.

We never heard anything about it again and DS went without his sweatshirt that summer!

Quad I don't know, actually! I hope so. I am as old as the hills