To only iron the front panels of my Y7 new starter's school shirts

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Just that really.

Detest & despise ironing with every fibre of my being.

She needs a clean, white shirt every day and she's only in week 2 of her transition to high school, so she still cares enough to want to look smart enough to make a good impression.

She wears a blazer at all times, and, apparently, needs the combined permission of the Pope and the Queen in order to remove said blazer, even if the thermometer is pushing 40-degrees.

In the interests of full disclosure (and to head off all the tutting comments about how I have failed in my parental duties by not teaching her to iron before she could crawl), she is blind so ironing the shirts herself is REALLY not a good idea.

Oh, and we don't have a tumble dryer, so I can't just shake the creases off.

And, by the way, when retailers claim their uniforms are non-iron, they are telling big, fat porkies.

I only iron sleeves and chest on my primary girls shirts. They all wear pinafores.

YANBU. Surely they’ll crease a bit under the blazer anyway.
When my boys were at school and wearing white shirts, I’d do a couple of buttons up which kept it together, put it flat on the ironing board and just iron the sleeves and the front and that’d get creases out of the back too.

I don’t iron at all! They get hung up straight from the tumble drier....I have two DCs at high school

When you take them out of the washing machine but them on a clothes hanger and hook the clothes hanger over one of your curtain poles, open the window.

The shirts should dry fairly quickly without too many creases.

Good for you Jinxed. OP has said about three comments up that she doesn’t have a rumble drier 🙄

I have Sainsbury's non-iron shirts. They seem to do what they say. Not perfect but no noticeable creases.

I would do as you are suggesting though. Life is too short to iron properly

I put shirts on hangers wet and put them up to dry - big standard shirts.

You could always avoid even doing the front panels if you can convince her to wear a jumper as well

I thought it was just me who did this!!

Ours have to wear a jumper in Autumn and Spring term. Even in summer I dry non iron shirts as Grambler described so no creases

I dont iron

Just hang up straight from the washing machine and get the hair straighteners on them if u need to.

Haha your post made me laugh OP.
I think my eldest child was the only one who's school shirts I ever ironed, and that was only for about the first week, and then I just thought fuck this and decided to leave it to her sky high body heat to smooth out the wrinkles and never looked back. So no, your DD is lucky she's getting a half ironed shirt and YANBU.

I dont iron. Our kids have school jumpers aswell as a blazer, so what's the point. You can only see the collar.