My 15 year old is at a secondary school where the head is strict about certain aspects of the uniform. The trousers can only be bought from one shop. They are twice the price of M&S's best so I have only ever had one pair of uniform trousers on the go at a time. They also are a bad fit for my tall thin child, one style does not fit all shapes. Thing is my child will not break rules so is not keen to wear the M&S ones and risk the wrath of the head . However this article
www.education.ie/en/Press-Events/Press-Releases/2017-Press-Releases/PR17-04-18.html (this is an Irish article - we live in ireland-where the minister for education is calling for schools to allow generic uniform where possible. They say they will ask parents but they already did a few years ago, the vast majority agreed but it has been ignored so I don't really expect this to go any further than that lot of hot air from the minister)
Has me wondering if (this year) generic school trousers will be acceptable whatever the head says. I think the idea of a uniform is great but feel that this insistence on one type of trousers from one shop is not so great. WIBU to send my child in in essentially non uniform trousers (plenty of more rebellious children do this, my dc would have to know they are not going to get in trouble first). Fwiw this is not the only aspect of the school uniform rules I think are ridiculous but it is the one I want to stand up to. But of course in practice it is not me who will be doing the standing up.