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AIBU?

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Aibu to think private school kids wearing their logoed school jumpers at the weekend is weird?

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zzzzzzzz12345 · 02/09/2019 22:47

Isn’t it a bizarre stealth boast, except it’s not stealthy at all and a bit attention seeking? I know several children who do this. If your child does, why?

You’d never catch a state educated child wearing their school jumper at the weekend. If my child started to, I’d suggest they changed.

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adaline · 03/09/2019 09:40

I do let my kids wear brands. It’s sad that fee paying education has become one round here.

How is it any different from state school leavers wearing their class hoodies?

Bluntness100 · 03/09/2019 09:40

so their demanding parents can be part of a wave that demands better education for everyone

How do you do this please? Are you petitioning Parliament, local authorities, what are you doing to get better education for everyone?

adaline · 03/09/2019 09:40

And loads of the state kids have hoodies. I haven’t seen a single one worn in school holidays.

Must be area dependent, I see it all the time here.

Xenia · 03/09/2019 09:41

I am not sure most private schools have a logo on the jumper - normally it's a shirt and then a non branded coloured jumper. A logo would give an appearance of state school to me!!!

youarenotkiddingme · 03/09/2019 09:41

Is it their logo jumper like the v neck knit ones they wear over their shirt and tie?

Or is it a hoody/ sweatshirt or rugby top with school logo that they may have bought as a memento for an event?

Both my ds and my DN have hoodies logo from various things.

DN is a dancer and his has dance school and printed badge with his medal position in a national comp. yes, he wears it with pride. Ds has a zip hoody with school logo on front and drama production on back and also a counties jumper from his sport.

Of course they both wear them with pride and know it advertises what they do. But also - my sister and I pay over the olds for these and are not spending more money on other clothes when these are perfectly fine to wear!

Bluntness100 · 03/09/2019 09:42

Perhaps they don’t carry the same brand value

Or the same pride?

CassianAndor · 03/09/2019 09:44

both DH and I went to private schools (both part boarding) and there was no Saturday school. I have heard of it but not the norm when I was a kid! What a pain in the arse.

ThunderingOn · 03/09/2019 09:44

'Or the same pride?'

Pride in what?

nimski · 03/09/2019 09:46

I went to private school for 6th form. Had classes on a Saturday morning and also chapel on a Sunday morning so would have been in uniform most of the weekend.

youarenotkiddingme · 03/09/2019 09:46

I'll also add my ds has the club zip up for his sport.

He wears it to comps etc and sometimes training. But if it's the only hoody dry he's been known to wear it to Aldi.

As I previously said. When you spend £30/40 on a bloody hoody for sport/school event you aren't going to spend more even on cheap ones while these expensive rip offs sir gathering dust and being grown out of!

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zzzzzzzz12345 · 03/09/2019 09:49

Bluntness. In short yes. And being involved in local politics, governing bodies, talking to local MPs, writing to DfE. And allowing our kids to be part of it, rather then hypocrites who talk the talk but don’t want to walk the walk in relation to their little darlings.

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MilkTrayLimeBarrel · 03/09/2019 09:49

At one of my schools (private) the uniform was brown and yellow sans logo. I used to wear the brown cardigan at weekends and on holidays with my own clothes.

Manontry · 03/09/2019 09:50

Manontry - do you know why?

No, she's almost 14, she can wear what she likes.

Bluntness100 · 03/09/2019 09:50

Op what is it you're trying to achieve here? Your posts indicate you think these kids are wearing their uniforms to show off they go to private school. So what? How does this impact you?

Bottom line is I don't believe you unless it's hoodies. And if it's hoodies it's likely for convenience and because they like it. Nothing more. Plenty of privately educated kids do not come from wealthy back grounds. I'm sure you know this. Plenty of kids just sling on what's available to them and comfy, with little thought.

If you have a resentment towards people who are privately educated as your kids are not, fair enough, you do you, but this wearing school uniform in leisure time for the joy of it is bullshit and we all know it.

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zzzzzzzz12345 · 03/09/2019 09:51

And your comment ‘or the same pride?’ comprises everything I hate about entitled private school parents. Shame on you. My OP is aimed exactly this kind of awful separatist snobbery.

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Manontry · 03/09/2019 09:51

Ah. I see. It's an anti-private school thread triggered by what kids are wearing.

How funny that dd could have unwittingly annoyed someone old enough to know better.

Manontry · 03/09/2019 09:52

And yes, dd is proud of her school. Rightly so, its fantastic.

Bluntness100 · 03/09/2019 09:52

comprises everything I hate about entitled private school parents

Ok, so this is just an anti private school thread due to your own resentment,

Fair enough.

FenellaMaxwell · 03/09/2019 09:53

Oh right. So this is a jealousy thread and fuck all to do with specific uniform?

CruCru · 03/09/2019 09:53

Yes, I would find kids wearing their school jumpers in the holidays a bit weird. If it were just one of two, I’d think that they had outgrown their casual one and were making do until the new one arrives - but a lot of kids doing this makes me think it’s a fashion (in the same way that people at my university would walk around wearing XYZ University hoodies - I also found that weird at the time).

As far as fashion goes, this one isn’t awful.

MilkTrayLimeBarrel · 03/09/2019 09:54

In my experience, children who attend private school do not tend to boast or brag about it. It's as if they know they are lucky but are also conscious that it is not seemly to show off.

Xenia · 03/09/2019 09:54

It is often they do the opposite - children at one school not too far from us (boarding) at times have been instructed when going into town to wear their home coat not blazer to avoid being picked on.

My poor school friend had to leave uor school at 16 and went to a local comprehensive. you can hardly imagine anyone doing this but she turned up for the first week in her private school uniform including summer boater hat! She said it was because they had not bought the new uniform yet but that is really weird. How anyone would think that would go down well I don't know to this day.

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zzzzzzzz12345 · 03/09/2019 09:54

Bluntness - please don’t presume to know what happens where I live. I’m hardly going to benefit from posting bullshit in here. I’m heavily involved in the drive to improve state education. When private school parents/kids make the school hoodies desirable brands, it makes me ache as it epitomises everything which is wrong with educational apartheid - making good educational available only for those who can pay/are brought enough to win scholarships, creating brand value in the private sector, frightening some parents into capitulating into private educational because of fear.

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ThunderingOn · 03/09/2019 09:54

'Or the same pride?'

Bluntness are you really suggesting state school pupils dont wear their school hoodies at weekends off because they aren't 'proud' of their school, thus confirming what the op has actually said.

So no, it isn't 'chapel' or Saturday school' it is in fact showing off.

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zzzzzzzz12345 · 03/09/2019 09:55

Excuse typos, bright not brought

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