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

masterandmargarita that was the point I was trying to make but people brushed it off because I'd never been in the situation myself

I mentioned how cruel they were yesterday, and posted various links & photos about the cruel practices but none of my comments seem to have been added to the conversation

I know I can’t believe that either. I didn’t want you to think that others weren’t also trying to make the same point

I said it was cruel before the thread EVRN STARTED and no one took any notice.

I don’t understand your post @BeanBagLady

Well, everyone else is comparing how no one has posted about cruelty, throughout this thread that has constant comments about cruelty, and they are the only ones who commented, and who, Amongst the many cruelty commentators has been most ignored so I just thought I would remind everyone that I sat in a box in the middle of the road and mentioned the cruelty
before the thread even started.

Actually even before I had heard of a Canada Goose coat.

Come on, are you really saying you didn't have the latest fashionable thing in your day? Something that your parents thought was a waste of money.

I know I did. My son wears that coat to school, we are not rich. Just understand kids will be kids.

Given that it's a high school I'd have thought that the chances of any teenager wearing a coat to school were pretty much nil anyway.

It's up to the parents, if they want to waste their money on a ridiculously expensive coat then it's up to them. The school could always introduce a coat with a school logo that is compulsory for the next year's intake onwards if they are really concerned.

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

I’d be annoyed with that. I understand the reasons to some degree but my daughter can be fussy and so far kickers seem to give her no problems. I buy them from a catalogue where they are much cheaper and would be annoyed if I had to buy really cheap shoes that fall apart within weeks, I can’t afford to keep replacing shoes.

Sorry, haven't RTFT, but I would probably be more sympathetic to the idea that this was to tackle inequality if
a) schools stopped booking "educational" trips costing several hundred pounds (some a couple of thousand), and
b) teachers weren't parking everything from an old Ford Ka up to a top of the range Mercedes and Mustang in the car park

Schools banning stuff like this will just make some kids want them more; many kids who had never really heard of them suddenly know what they are and will now want one. It's almost as if the teachers and media were acting as free advertising...

Pyrenex and Canada Goose kids coats are going from about £20-30 second hand on ebay - cheaper than the brand new Regatta jackets (from the outlet store) I bought my two when they deigned to wear stuff I bought them.

When I was at school and admittedly that was really some time ago my high school had a uniform but as long as you were wearing the right colour they were pretty laid back but the only thing that they did stamp down on was coats, you could have any coat you wanted Except for denim jackets, they were either instantly taken by a teacher until the end of the day or if you managed to get it in your locker it had to stay there. But the 6th formers wore what ever they wanted which included denim jackets. I really never understood why one day basically made a difference about what you could and couldn’t wear. I never wore expensive stuff or brand names, Why should I pay out a Fortune to advertise their products! And ds who has now left school has never been into designer gear either, so makes me wonder if sometimes it is the parents who want to give their dc designer stuff and then are surprised when dc decides that want the newest ** on the market. Uniforms are only going to work if they are reasonably priced and enforced. I don’t see the point of a uniform to be honest as it doesn’t make any difference to how a child learns, but giving them very expensive items to take to school,regardless of the school is going to cause problems especially a £1000 coat I wouldn’t pay that for a coat for me so sure as hell aren’t getting one for ds. More money than sense some people.

I would not want my children to have to wear a school uniform. It seems to be only the failing schools that are introducing uniforms. But maybe that's just a London thing.

They do it in the US in inner city areas when they set up a charter school (aka an academy).

It bamboozles people who look no further than the surface into believing these schools are great and also into believing that proper funding via property taxes of the (non-uniform) public schools is a waste because they don't make such a good visual impression to those people in a 20 second 'news item' on local TV news.

@BeanBagLady
I actually buy a coat thats multifunctional for school and my children Can not wear the expensive designer coats unless they are with me. Safety as well as caution.
I had an designer coat stolen from me from some one I shared lockers with that supposed to haf been a friend. When I reported with proof a picture another friend brought to school of her wearing the coat, nothing was done but a phone call to the parent. The mother said she never seen the coat and the school said there was nothing they can do.☹️14 yr old with No coat. Can't say what happen next.