School ban Canada goose coats

[Unicornandbows]

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

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

I did get DS the school overcoat but he refused to wear it. Luckily it fits me (I don’t care if it’s a mans coat!). He will wear his school jacket (it’s mandatory) but I still remember him and his pals running around the school last winter - in the snow - in their shirt sleeves.

*there not their

Most coats have some kind of small logo though, and I also disagree with children being force to wear only black or dark coloured 'school' coats for safety reasons (expensive coats can be dark coloured too anyway). So a school could only ban certain brands, which will just be replaced by others not on the list.

I can imagine all the issues it might cause with such expensive costs getting potentially damaged lost or pinched at school.

Ridiculous to introduce a ban once winter coats have already been purchased. Announce now for next school year fair enough

Christ you'd boil to death on a school bus in a Canada Goose coat

They SHOULD be banned, not for the 'poverty shaming' but the needless use of animals, they are a bloody disgrace as is anyone wearing one.

I don’t have a teen but eventually the bump will become one.

I’d probably buy their winter coat somewhere like tk Maxx (assuming they’d be seen dead in something from there). It would have to be warm and practical. As a family we walk a lot. We spend time outdoors. Child will likely use public transport or walk to/from school.

So assuming I can pick up a warm, waterproof, appropriate winter coat at an affordable price point in a discount store I’d like the school to worry more about the kid who has no coat/lunch/whatever and/or actually bloody educating the kids.

From the headline, I assumed it was an ethical issue.

But £1000 on a coat for a growing teen is crazy.

I'd never heard of Canada Geese coats. Schools in my area have uniforms and a no logo policy when it comes to coats so that's the end of it.

They are all the rage at our slightly rough comprehensive in the north west. The younger male teachers wear them too.

Fortunately I have brainwashed DS to be disparaging of designer brand trends from a young age.

Do secondary school kids actually wear coats? Admittedly our lot are in jumpers and blazers, but coats are as rare as hens' teeth here.

:) poor geese - give them their coats back! Seriously this is definitely about showing off - as someone else said imagine if it got lost or marked in any way - can you imagine the ructions!

My kids never wore a coat unless it was Baltic.

I am dumbfounded that they have Secondary school aged children in coats.

DH asked me the other day what coat we would be buying for Ds1 - none until he asks for one.

I get where they’re coming from but if they want to stop this sort of showing off/obvious signs of wealth differences etc they’ll have to make the same rule about bags, shoes, trainers, phones, the clothes people wear on non-uniform days etc etc. I get that the intention is good, it just seems a bit pointless? Kids will still be perfectly aware of who comes from the richest backgrounds and who comes from the poorest.

It’d have to be -20 degrees and a good long walk to get the full benefit of a coat like that and justify paying that much.

The children can wear their 1k coats at the weekend.

Do secondary school kids actually wear coats?

All three of mine did/do.

Buttercupsandaisies Tue 20-Nov-18 18:48:29
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!

The children will just move on to something else to ask for.

I'm on the fence tbh. If school care that much - bring in a school coat for uniform.

Banning it won't stop children asking, nor parents buying.

It is also the wrong tie of year to impose a ban. Too little too late. Parents who have already forked out for one of these coats on't be too happy if their child can't use them.

Coats are definitely worn here nowadays. Ten years ago my older kids were coat refusers on even the bitterest days. Now DS2(13) skips off happily in his coat every morning, no ructions at all.

For ethical reasons, GOOD!

I have absolutely no idea as to why anyone would pay £1000 for a coat but if they want to they shouldn't be stopped from wearing it (or their child from wearing it).

i think its a bit silly - banning a coat because of how much it costs? Im surprised the school doesn't have its own coat though - most schools do i assumed. At ours, we would be in trouble if we turned up at the school with a coat with the schools logo/initials.

Ew, why hasn’t fur been banned? Can’t believe all these ‘woke’ teenagers think it’s ok