backpacks in secondary school

[Boudicca55]

My daughter is at secondary school and is being teased (bullied?) because she does not have a certain type of backpack...which costs a lot of money£70. I just can't afford it and even if I could, I reaally object to some other cirls dictating what kind of backpack I should buy for my child. COMMENTS PLEASE.

@ArseInTheCoOpWindow

I bought my dd whatever she needed to fit in within reason.

I wouldn’t dream of making her different.

Exactly

Both of my boys have something that makes different to most of their friends. For that reason, within reason, I've always tried to facilitate them having the trend, or at least definitely not something that would make them stand out. Might be the wrong way to go about it, and might teach them the wrong way to go about it, but it's worked for them - particularly DS2.

Most of the girls at DDs school have stupidly large black handbags.
DD isn’t allowed one and has to have a rucksack because she has scoliosis but even she knows how impractical they are.