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.

Could that be because of white shirts not being fit for purpose and kids being self conscious you cab see through them?

School uniforms lack practicality. No coats in winter past school gates, insistence on blazers in extreme heat. I don't get the objection to boots when dcs are walking to school in the winter or the objection to trainer style footwear...and I really despair that our HT is so focused on Uniform....it seems so superficial and I respect her less the more she drones on about it.

I saw our local upper school advertising on village Facebook that students can wear PE kit all this week ( t shirt and shorts). So there are schools with a bit of common sense!

I hid my autistic ds blazer today so he couldn't take it as school have relaxed the rule this week!

Our very strict local schools are all saying pe kits. Lots of water. Less energetic outdoor play being encouraged

It does make me think Hts are a bit odd with their uniform obsessions - who really respects them for this madness....who thinks that's a great us of their time, who is really impressed by red faced students struggling to walk home in the heat? Really?!!

Never understand why kids are sent home for skirts a mm above the knee but when told to cone in or kit it's ok to sit there in what are pretty much hot pants.

Never understand why kids are sent home for skirts a mm above the knee

You do realise it's rarely about the skirt and more about the lack of respect and attitude towards the school/education/teachers don't you?

I'm so old could be methuselah. My school a trendy London school stopped with the uniform in the 70s!! It happened then, almost in mist of times. We got on fine without it, almost dressed the same. Stripy socks, clogs, dungarees. It was the 70s.
My primary school made us wear ties, weird hats, no coverage for knees in winter. Why is this strange practice of making young children wear inappropriate clothes still going on!?

I work in a school and I wish beyond measure that I had time to "swan about".

Green totally agree it's about lack of respect rather than actual skirt length they punish for.

Which is why it's even more ridiculous the lack of respect returned and the expectation of rights, jumped and blazer even when a pupil is hot and uncomfortable.

I'll never understand why the respect isn't a two way thing. Everyone knows you get more out of people when it is.

Here we go ....another thread flaming schools. Who'd be a teacher these days?!

Who'd be a teacher these days?!

Fewer and fewer people. That's why schools are stuffed with supply teachers and cover supervisors (like me) and parents are complaining that their kids aren't being taught by a proper teacher or have had 5 different teachers for one subject in one year.

So Paris, I expect you wear a jumper and blazer all the time in a heatwave such as we are having?

Yes so disrespectful to have a tiny waist meaning the only skirt that fits is "too short" or having the audacity to grow a couple of cms and parents being unable to immediately replace. Off to detention you go.

All our secondary schools require skirts below the knee. Dd is still wearing 7/8 skirts. They are not below the knee.

Perhaps I should take her to burger king for a few supervise meals so we don't have the issue any nore

Super size

I don't flame schools or teachers in general. I don't think though that that means we have to support the enforced wearing of clothes designed for winter in high heat.

Flaming is a good choice of words!

But it's not attacking schools in general. It's comparing and contrasting uniform policies. And insisting on warm clothes in a heatwave is being roundly condemned, as it would be in workplaces etc.

Surely there can't be many schools that insist on jumpers and blazers in this weather? Even in this Daily Mail sad face, when you read the misleading article it's clear that they only needed to take the blazer to school, not wear it in a heatwave.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3151274/Mother-furious-son-11-isolation-going-school-without-blazer-hottest-day-year.html

I don't understand it. How can those children concentrate on learning if they are too hot and uncomfortable. My youngest hates being too hot and it causes her to behave very differently to how she does normally. She gets very frustrated when too hot.
I just don't see the point of it, I believe that the rules are far to concerned with how the children look especially in a world where we should be teaching that everyone looks different and that is fine. Less focus on haircuts, shoes, etc and more focus on their learning and well being.

My dd1 now 15, doesn't attend school she attends college twice a week, no uniform.
She has 100% respect for all the staff and students, behaves in a mature manner and will happily tell others in her class who are being disruptive or lacking respect to pack it in. Uniform does not equal respect. She's there because she wants to be, she wants to learn, she's not uncomfortable or put under massive pressure to perform.

Paris bitbof a daft comment. Some people on here agreeing that expecting children to wear winter clothes in summer - and especially in a heatwave - is just not common sense.

Someone quite correctly pointed about above that those who do end up working in a job with office uniform can chose their blouse and fit and skirt style etc which school children can't.

Topseyt...I probably do wear a jumper a lot of the time as it can be somewhat chillier north of the border!
But schools here do allow children to remove jumpers/blazers as they see fit.