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 think this poster is right.
Parents are the reason for stupid school uniform rules. Parents judge the school by how smart the children look.
The schools people have posted about that they/their child attends that are prestigious/top of the country that have relaxed/no uniforms probably already know that they are going to attract the brightest/most motivated students which will help them achieve their good results, so don't have to compete with other schools for pupils. I've noticed that the schools with the most brading on their blazers are the ones with the most to prove, as historically they are often ones people have turned their noses up at. Comps like Fortismere/Cherwell and private schools like St Pauls Girls with no uniform are probably ones that already have people clamouring to get into them.

I went to a very strict catholic secondary (a long time ago)

You had to get permission from a teacher to take your wool jumper off, and get this wrote in your journal and signed.

If another teacher saw you without your jumper they would demand to see your journal, instant detention if you didn't have a written permission.

As far as I am aware these are still the rules, and they have added a blazer to the mix too!

But on hot weather days there would be a blanket rule (normally announced in the morning form class during registration) that you good have your jumper off.

Surely this is what is happening up and down the country now?

Seriously? What is this madness? Mine have been told to wear PE and they don't have a blazer in their uniform anyway.

Do schools know there are other professions than working in an office

Fuck me, are there?

In my office today I wore a knee length thin floaty navy dress. One colleague wore a short sleeved shirt & shorts, another colleague a polo shirt & & shirts. Only a few had long trousers on.

Dd is at private boading School. They have to keep jumper and blazer on at all times. Some teachers will allow removal of blazer but if the head is seen strolling about they have to put it back on.
Dd already has not flushes on her periods and this just makes it worse. Trousers aren't an option here. So it's skirt and tights socks aren't allowed

That's not good Fantasy

And your paying that privilege fantasy?
Utter madness.

Teaching students to overheat to show respect is akin to teaching them subservience and lack of authority over their own body.

KitBee not all teachers are the same. My DD is a teacher, she used to teach at a school where the kids couldn't take jumpers off without permission. She hated it, said it messed up lessons as she would be interrupted several times with "Miss can I take my jumper off." So she gave everyone permission at the start of every lesson to take their jumpers off. The Head walked in on a lesson one day and looked round, loads of kids with jumpers off. He said, "Have these children got permission to take their jumpers off." DD said they had. he never questioned it again.

My school was a bastard for this. Blazers kept on (including to and from school) unless a teacher gave you permission to take it off. Ties for all. No cloakrooms so if you wore a coat (providing you found one completely black with no colour or lettering on at all) you had to carry it around with you wet all day. Scarves (school scarf only, of course), hats and gloves to be taken off the second you were through the doors.

Today I wore linen trousers and a t-shirt to work. I also have piercings, dyed hair and tattoos and somehow none of this has made me unemployable.

Kept this thread in mind today and walked around insisting kids took their jumpers off - got moaned at by them for making them do so, mind! Best line was 'it'll make me hotter', followed by 'it's too much effort'. I love the kids at my school - we were sweaty together today in spite of the fans in my room...by the way, no budget for that (all teachers at my school end up paying for them and bringing them in).

Light coloured school shirts are buggers for showing sweat marks. That's why they didn't want to take them off.

What a loads of tosh getting ready for the workplace. I'm in the middle of a multi day court hearing at work and the ushers came out about every 10 minutes today to remind everyone no jackets was ok today. The barristers were a bit twitchy but the judge was in a short sleeved blouse.

Our local secondary has told them they can wear or kits or uniform with no ties/jumpers for the rest of the week.

PE kits, that should have said!!

My sons school allow blazers off in school any time of year and they are allowed to wear short sleeve shirts. Yesterday he came off saying they didn't have to wear blazers or ties at the moment.

Vestalvirgin. I went to an all girls school back in the 80s and we could choose to wear trousers or skirts so I've never seen the sexist school uniform you talk about.

Oh and jumpers are optional anyntime of year.

SmileEachDay

Why the face and the question ?

I love dd's non school uniform school. Clothes should be generally decent, which I think helps teens know how to make their own choices of suitable clothes to wear in a work environment rather than blindly following orders.

More schools should do this.

Quad
It's ridiculous...time and time again people complain but they care more about their image

I am a fan of uniforms but making children wear things that are far too hot for the weather is cruel. At my ds' school as soon as there is a hint of sun they are allowed to take their blazers and ties off. I am astonished that some schools would insist otherwise.

Shirt sleeves dress code was announced in yesterday's assembly: no blazers or ties required, shirts unbuttoned, sleeves rolled if long.

No message from my son's school but my daughter's school has shut for the day. There is a power issue. That's all I know.

Our office, after fighting it for years when similar happens, has announced that men can wear smart shorts.
Women already have plenty of cool smart options which hasn't stop some whinging about draughts while the (this time) poor men have been sweltering.

I told my daughter that if she was forced to keep her blazer on in this heat, then she should exit the school, walk home and I'd contact the school to explain why she'd walked out.