Children wearing jogging bottoms to school ...

[LittleMissUnreasonable]

Aibu to find it irritating seeing more and more primary school ages children walking to school in branded jogging bottoms and trainers. I think it looks really scruffy and it's just a case of laziness.

A pair of school trousers costs about £3 from supermarkets. Shoes from primark about £8. It's not a case of not being able to afford a proper uniform as some of these branded joggers cost about £20+ quid!

I totally understand any help for pupils with learning requirements around uniform being relaxed is simply common sense. Unpicking the OPs original point and reading the comments - which mainly flame her opinion - it’s important to remind ourselves that many underperforming and failing schools reported improvement both in behaviour and results when more formal uniforms were introduced. You might think they look cheap, you might dispute that learning is not affected but there has to be some sense in where possible, getting young people to understand that unless their well being is compromised learning to follow simple rules is sensible. With all the mental health issues in young people some self pride in appearing smart and representing their school could be a step towards them learning about self pride. I do think this whole liberal approach to life and everyone doing as they please to be comfortable etc isn’t setting an example to young people about doing things you don’t always love and the need to build some resilience in a competitive world. Once they get the job in the company that allows relatively casual dress great, until then do as you are told. Far too many liberal parents making life difficult for their children by not upholding standards schools and colleges set.

Get over yourself Lweji you are speaking out your arse!!!

I'm actually typing.

Blue uniforms are not introduced into failing schools in isolation - it's generally part of a raft of measures brought in by a new rescue head, alongside managing out half the staff, introducing breakfast clubs, holiday revision clubs, discipline crack downs, if they're good also a raft of positive reinforcement policies and often accompanied by emergency funding to turn the school around.

If you can find multiple examples of failing schools turned around solely by introducing uniform you might convince someone.

As it is it's merely the case that when rescue heads step in one of the things they do to signal a regime change is to introduce a uniform if there isn't one, and change it if there is.

Or are most schools outside the UK failing?

Blue, "With all the mental health issues in young people some self pride in appearing smart and representing their school could be a step towards them learning about self pride."

We are talking about PRIMARY school children, some of whom are as young as five. I don't see how making a five-year-old wear uncomfortable clothes (and many kids find teflon trousers and acrilic jumpers scratchy, itchy, etc.) help them "learn about self pride".

You'd hate our school. It's a track suit only school..

Yeah... self pride based on how you look. On appearances. It makes a lot of sense, for good old Hyacinth.

Have you stood in a school playground lately? Jogging bottoms are warm, £3 Asda trousers are not. I had leggings on under my smart trousers today, as did most of my colleagues because it was bloody cold, yes in an office they would have to dress smartly but in an office no one is going to send them to stand outside for break and lunch or suggest mud kitchens or forest schools or jolly little walks to collect fallen leaves or going out to look at the frost on cobwebs.

Our school does the daily mile so I sent DC in joggers and trainers. Sensible.

Ds is 10 and in year 6. He wears comfy, unbranded joggers all the time, even to school. He is very thin at the moment following chemo so needs comfortable clothing. He always wears his school polo shirt though and school hoodie now it's cold.

I think if there is a uniform policy then it should be followed correctly. It's annoying as a parent having the battles over uniform only to find half the school is wearing whatever they want.
However I would get rid of school uniform given the choice. It looks ridiculous, it is impractical and creates unnecessary expense for parents.

My son goes to a special school they advise jogging bottoms , he does have some school trousers too that he has inherited from his brother surely its up to the school?

Joggers warmer so yeah yabu

Is your DS okay Muddling?

Wish my kids were still at primary school so I could dress them in joggers and trainers specifically to irritate the OP. I love thinking I might have done something to piss off a judgemental fucker that can't mind their own business.

Mine is at a special school and wears joggers. He had a pair of school trousers that had reinforced knees, picked at them and declared he would never wear trousers again as they felt funny on his legs. So joggers it is, he wears a school jumper but frankly in this weather, when he's playing football and climbing play equipment the warmer the better. He's 11.

Can't be bothered to read the thread, but my opinion (as a FS teacher) is that eyfs and KS1 children should all wear jogging bottoms to school. Plain navy joggers, a polo shirt and a zip up hoody. So much simpler for toileting, PE and swimming changing. Teflon trousers with metal sliders mean that little boys can't undo trousers in time, and the pee slides off the Teflon, down leg into shoes.....

I grew up in Canada where there are no school dress codes. My friend used to wear checked flannel pyjama bottoms to school on a regular basis. We used to give him a ribbing but he just didn't care about fashion. He's now an engineer with a PhD so can't say it harmed him.

A 4 year old should wear whatever they can best be active and playful in.

I didnt wear a uniform at primary I think its a recent thing to see it everywhere.

The primary school my dc have gone to doesn't have uniform. Today dd wore joggers a top and a hoodie. Warm, practical and easy. I'm dreading ruddy secondary school next year and ugly, cold, boring clothes.

Evelyn absolutely agree on dark coloured outdoor coats. I would ban dark coloured winter coats for children. I even avoid them for myself.

Wish my kids were still at primary school so I could dress them in joggers and trainers specifically to irritate the OP. I love thinking I might have done something to piss off a judgemental fucker that can't mind their own business

Wow what an odd wish noeffingidea. Its a shame you have that much time on your hands to be bothered to do something like that....you sound hilarious....

My DC’s primary school uniform is (gasp) a sweatshirt, a polo shirt, a pair of tracksuit bottoms and training shoes, for boys and girls. It is a small, rural primary, and the head is very keen on outdoor time, so they spend at least an hour in the bog garden, the outdoor classroom or the allotments every day unless the weather is really atrocious. They do everything from literacy and numeracy to watching and helping a farmer shear a sheep.

They are comfortable, washable and practical for every scenario they are likely to meet in a day, other than perhaps a visit from HM the Q. Of the 8 primary schools within 15 miles of me only one has a traditional shirt and tie uniform. The rest wear the tracksuit/polo shirt combo in their own chosen colour scheme. It seems entirely sensible to me.

TovaGoldCoin Teflon trousers with metal sliders mean that little boys can't undo trousers in time, and the pee slides off the Teflon, down leg into shoes.....

Agreed. Also, let us not forget the difficulty of pulling up over long (she'll grow into it) pinafores and pulling down wooly tights. Then trying to get the wooly tights up again with the pinafore getting in the way.

it's a shame that you have that much time on your hands to be bothered to do something like that ... you sound hilarious
Almost as hilarious as someone who can be bothered and irritated by what other people dress their own children in, and take the time to start a thread on mumsnet about it. LolLolLol.