School ban Canada goose coats

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I feel slightly on the fence.. What do you think?

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/16/schools-right-ban-pupils-wearing-designer-coats

Don't ban them, just have a uniform.

But seriously.... who the hell can afford Moncler for their kids?!

If the ban is announced say in May, but if banned in the autumn when coats have been bought, seems unreasonable.

Personally there would be a lot of things higher up any list of things I would like to see schoolchildren not have.

I read this - I wondered what would happen if the less affluent parents had already bought one, either by saving up for it or buying second hand - and couldn't afford to buy a cheaper brand coat to replace it.

I feel on the fence because if they feel so strongly about coats they should put a uniform system in place. In a way its wealth shaming too and doesn't really prep kids for the real world.

If they ban coats there'll be something else that takes over from it.

And I'm speaking from the place of someone who has never had a designer coat. Our coats were bought from the market place with plenty of growing room. I still have the last one dm bought me. It still is too big.

This school is local to me and I'm glad they've done it. It's ridiculous. Kids asking for Canada goose, monclair and the likes from year 7 and parents buying them at the drop of a hat!

I think it's unreasonable as it means having to buy another coat with as pp said, they might of saved up, it might of been a present etc and now it's wasted as no real notice and having to buy another coat.

A coat can easily fit for three years, and that's before taking into account coats handed down from siblings. My DS is wearing his coat for the third year, so I'd expect a three year transition period at least.

I dare say they don’t want to be dealing with the calls and e mails about lost and stolen coats. I would want to limit the value of stuff kids take into schools.

Why on Earth anyone would think it a good idea to send a child into school in a £1k coat I don’t know.

It is unnecessary on every level. So shouldn’t actually cause any inconvenience or hardship.

I do think it’s sensible. If you can manage to buy children designer labels you can afford a plain unlabelled school coat.

If they can afford an £800 coat they can afford a £25 replacement for school days.

People are buying their kids £1000 coats? These are secondary kids who won't have finished growing yet?? Ridiculous.

Can’t open the link, are they being banned because of the ethical implications or because of the impact of kids wanting designer gear?

Either way, I don’t think it’s a school’s place to impose bans such as this. Parents should. I’m so, so fed up of parents pushing parenting onto schools, and I’m not a teacher or anything like it. It means that my kids - whom I take the trouble to and put effort into parenting - have valuable teacher headspace taken up by this sort of stuff, when they could be actually educating. You know, what we send children to school for. If the lack of designer gear causes a child to be bullied, the answer to is work on the bullying, not banning the source of bullying. Everything is upside down and back to front these days.

I was on the fence untilI saw one of the comments in the original story where a parent complained about the ban, saying “some people are just richer than others- get over it.”
Which is true of course, but really shouldn’t be relevant in school.

If you really can't afford a second coat after buying a mega expensive one, then sell the expensive one. You'd be able to buy coats for half the year group for the cost of a Moncler.

Typing as a former teacher, I don't think kids should take anything with a retail value >£30 into school. It's not worth the hassle.

But yeah, some people definitely do buy kids coats costing £1000. They can afford it, and they want their kids to have the best. Fool and his money and all that

My DS goes to a very well known boarding school and I haven’t seen any of the boys bar one wearing a CG coat! Maybe the school fees have made them unaffordable!

Kids are getting mugged for them. Who thinks this is a good idea? I agree with PP change the uniform to include coats and then everyone is the same. It’s shameless showing off with the risk of your child being attacked for their coat!

Imagine one of those ending up in lost property or just plain going missing!

DS goes to a fancy shmancy school and although I’ve seen some expensive school bags (but brands that adults would know - not very trendy at all) I’ve not seen a coat like that on any of the kids.

Apparently it’s too uncool to wear a bloody coat anyway 🙄

@sunglasses123 it’s funny. My ds is junior school in a very wealthy area and the kids would never wear stuff like this. The kids in the other junior school in the less well off area are decked out head to toe in expensive gear. I went to a big boarding school and we wouldn’t have been seen dead in certain brands

My dd is private boarding and they have a uniform coat that cost £29.99! Ok state schools don't think they should demand parents buy a set coat but £29.99 is far more affordable than these designer ones (quality might not be good enough for the Arctic but it's fine for the U.K.)

I'd be fine with it.

I would never get a Canada Goose coat anyway (ethical reasons) but I'd be glad not to have requests for such an expensive item because it's 'the trend'.

Their school is strict on shoes - no branding; that's down to stopping the less wealthy family feeling under pressure.

Mind you none of my seem bothered by labels. Least not enough to ask for any in particular.

There are soooo many canada goose fakes out there, i would seriously doubt the majority of them are real anyway. Same for Moncler.

Canada Goose?

It doesn’t get that bloody cold here that kids needs extremely luxurious down filled insulated coats for warmth.

Wealth shaming pull the other one.

At the secondary my older kids go to their are kids from houses worth millions and kids from social housing, kids of former refugees and economic migrants and children of minor celebrities.

Its possibly the richest kids who are slightly more likely to turn up in an Aldi parka than a brand name coat, though you really cant tell.

No uniform.

Buying a teen a 1k coat for school is just a sign of stupidity surely.