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School bans wearing jumpers between after Easter and before Oct half term

62 replies

Vnml · 17/04/2026 10:55

https://www.harboroughmail.co.uk/education/parents-criticise-lutterworth-high-school-for-banning-jumpers-until-october-and-putting-pupils-who-wear-them-into-isolation-6578109

What a stupid rule!!!

Its been around 5c at 8am since the school went back after Easter.

Also October can be chilly too.

Yet teachers are wearing jumpers and cardigans.

What is to achieve from making your students shiver and become ill!

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catmothertes1 · 17/04/2026 12:01

Kitt1 · 17/04/2026 11:21

UK schools seem more interested in creating endless stupid pointless rules than helping children grow, learn and be ready for adulthood.

Thankfully we left the UK and our DS was educated elsewhere.

He still wears a basic uniform with his long hair, earrings and eyeliner. The teachers commend him for his creativity and excellent academic results.

Not all UK schools, I was a teacher in Scotland and Scottish State schools are usually not as crazy about uniform rules as English ones seems to be.

newornotnew · 17/04/2026 12:39

Justbecauseyoucandoesntmeanyoushould · 17/04/2026 11:25

It may be to stop kids tying their jumpers round their waists. I know of a school where they introduced a sleeveless jumper, allegedly for this reason. The kids hated the jumper and were cold in winter.

Why would anyone care about this??

Schools have completely lost the plot.

Vnml · 17/04/2026 14:11

TheNoisyGreyLion · 17/04/2026 11:25

Bat shit. What on earth is wrong with wearing a jumper after Easter? Bat shit bat shit bat shit.

Then what about when Easter is early? Next year it’s 28/3. So they go back to school around 5/4. Be more colder

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takealettermsjones · 17/04/2026 14:16

Ridiculous rule. I'd buy my DC a white thermal jumper/top to go underneath the shirt. They should not have to though of course!

Spaghettea · 17/04/2026 14:18

I'm sure this will really help the mental answer physical health of students. Not.
It's as stupid as blazers on at all times, no shorts in secondary and only black coats (bloody dangerous after dark).

When will the powers that be realise that children all around the world manage to learn without petty uniform rules? My teen couldn't cope with uniform and it contributed to her missing 30% of secondary school.

Vnml · 17/04/2026 14:36

Be interesting if all the parents take their DC to school wearing jumpers as protest

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mondaytosunday · 17/04/2026 14:50

We had a summer uniform of cotton dresses for girls and shorts for boys (junior school). But we were still allowed to wear school jumpers if chilly! We had sleeveless vests too. However it was a battle to get most to wear them, and I don’t recall any child ever wearing a coat in secondary.

Scoobydoobydoo19 · 17/04/2026 15:00

Can you imagine doing lessons in those "temporary" huts in the 90s with no jumper? 🥶

CynicalSunni · 17/04/2026 15:42

I hated these stupid rules in high school.
Sitting in a hot classroom sweating and feeling sick. And being told 'No do not remove your blazer or loosen your tie! Do you think you would get away with that in the world of work?
Yet the teacher was in a nice cotton shirt with no suit jacket or tie. And the female teacher were in cotton dresses. I doubt any work place wants ot workers sweating and uncomfortable.

Vnml · 17/04/2026 15:51

Scoobydoobydoo19 · 17/04/2026 15:00

Can you imagine doing lessons in those "temporary" huts in the 90s with no jumper? 🥶

Yes my primary school was supposed to get rid of these around 1984. I was in them 5-7 years later. They finally got rid of them for the new classrooms built in 2018!!!!

I often got colds when in these classrooms

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MrsCarmelaSoprano · 17/04/2026 15:51

How ridiculous. Ds used to get nosebleeds if he was too hot and they had to wear jumpers even in 30 degree heat unless the teacher said otherwise. I wrote in and said ds was to remove his jumper when and if he wanted to or I would like an appt with the Head . Seemed to do the trick.

I am on a train at the moment with think socks, a scarf and a coat,it's not warm by any stretch and I run hot.

Bunnycat101 · 17/04/2026 16:02

I find it utterly bizarre that most primary schools allow 4-5 year olds the autonomy to put on a jumper or not but this is a secondary school refusing to allow the older kids the same. If they’re cold let them wear the school uniform jumper. Honestly it just feels ridiculous at this point.

CornishDaughteroftheDawn · 17/04/2026 17:52

Vnml · 17/04/2026 14:11

Then what about when Easter is early? Next year it’s 28/3. So they go back to school around 5/4. Be more colder

It’s not uncommon to have snow in April and certainly very cold winds. If a school can’t give a clear and sensible reason for their rule they shouldn’t have it. I can’t see why on earth they want to make the students so uncomfortable while they are trying to study - how does it benefit learning?

Extraenergyneeded · 17/04/2026 18:10

The blazer should be compulsory and the jumper as an extra optional.If it’s hot then shirt sleeves allowed in class.

Villanousvillans · 17/04/2026 18:12

This is truly ridiculous.

RudolphTheReindeer · 17/04/2026 18:14

You'd have to be a really power hungry weirdo of a headteacher who can't think of any better way to boost their own fragile ego to introduce pointless rules like this. Why do teachers go along with it? It's ridiculous.

GinaandGin · 17/04/2026 18:55

Stupid rule
And shame on the teacher for enforcing such nonsense
That said I work in the nhs and we have a "sock colour policy".
Had a manage who went round with her clipboard during covid checking

GinaandGin · 17/04/2026 18:56

CynicalSunni · 17/04/2026 15:42

I hated these stupid rules in high school.
Sitting in a hot classroom sweating and feeling sick. And being told 'No do not remove your blazer or loosen your tie! Do you think you would get away with that in the world of work?
Yet the teacher was in a nice cotton shirt with no suit jacket or tie. And the female teacher were in cotton dresses. I doubt any work place wants ot workers sweating and uncomfortable.

I work in the nhs and we have a ridiculously stupid sock colour policy.
Yes, it's enforced.
So so stupid

Barrenfieldoffucks · 17/04/2026 18:58

Are there uniform jumpers?

GinaandGin · 17/04/2026 19:13

Barrenfieldoffucks · 17/04/2026 18:58

Are there uniform jumpers?

Yes have the school crest on them

RainsFall · 17/04/2026 19:44

Secondary schools are so strange with their uniform rules. I often feel like half the issues they have around uniform could be eliminated if they just stopped micromanaging every little thing around them, it is extreme and apart from a few niche/specific jobs, is nowhere near an accurate reflection of the workplace.

If ties and blazers are creating more issues than they solve, get rid. If a child is wearing white socks instead of black socks under their trousers, so what? If a child is feeling warm and wants to carry their blazer instead of wearing it, just let them ffs. How do any of these things affect anyone’s learning? Punishing for such minor things is going to be more detrimental to learning imo. It’s not exactly conductive to fostering a positive learning environment, more like one where there’s friction between teachers and students because the kids feel got at all the time and the teachers are annoyed because the kids can’t follow ‘simple’ rules.

My dc’s school has teachers patrolling surrounding roads at home time, reprimanding anyone who might have the audacity to remove their tie/blazer or untuck their shirt on their way home after a long day. My dc ended up in isolation for ignoring them on their way home one day. It is madness. Imagine if school staff didn’t have to spend so much time policing pointless rules and handing out punishments for things that really don’t need to be made into the big deal they are.

8misskitty8 · 17/04/2026 20:29

RainsFall · 17/04/2026 19:44

Secondary schools are so strange with their uniform rules. I often feel like half the issues they have around uniform could be eliminated if they just stopped micromanaging every little thing around them, it is extreme and apart from a few niche/specific jobs, is nowhere near an accurate reflection of the workplace.

If ties and blazers are creating more issues than they solve, get rid. If a child is wearing white socks instead of black socks under their trousers, so what? If a child is feeling warm and wants to carry their blazer instead of wearing it, just let them ffs. How do any of these things affect anyone’s learning? Punishing for such minor things is going to be more detrimental to learning imo. It’s not exactly conductive to fostering a positive learning environment, more like one where there’s friction between teachers and students because the kids feel got at all the time and the teachers are annoyed because the kids can’t follow ‘simple’ rules.

My dc’s school has teachers patrolling surrounding roads at home time, reprimanding anyone who might have the audacity to remove their tie/blazer or untuck their shirt on their way home after a long day. My dc ended up in isolation for ignoring them on their way home one day. It is madness. Imagine if school staff didn’t have to spend so much time policing pointless rules and handing out punishments for things that really don’t need to be made into the big deal they are.

That's just crazy. Teachers checking streets and children getting Isolation for wearing what they wanted AFTER school is finished.

MustTryHarderAndHarder · 17/04/2026 20:33

I went to school in the '70s and '80s and our school did not have any pointless rules at all.

Some head teachers are just bonkers and create so many issues unnecessarily

Vnml · 17/04/2026 20:51

8misskitty8 · 17/04/2026 20:29

That's just crazy. Teachers checking streets and children getting Isolation for wearing what they wanted AFTER school is finished.

When I was in year 8, the last lesson on Friday was PE. They expected us to get changed back into our uniform before going home or to the school buses.

At that time I lived 7 mins walk away. A few of us found a gap in the fence behind the changing rooms mobile which back onto the road where the school was. Then opposite this was the reccy which I used as a cut through to make the walk just 7 mins.

Why should I get changed into my uniform then 10 mins later I would get changed out of my uniform?

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batt3nb3rg · 17/04/2026 21:22

Extraenergyneeded · 17/04/2026 18:10

The blazer should be compulsory and the jumper as an extra optional.If it’s hot then shirt sleeves allowed in class.

A blazer should not be compulsory. I know it's my intention to send my children to school with a note from me with my contact information informing any teacher who questions my child that they have my permission to regulate their own temperature and toilet use at their own discretion, and if the teacher has any concerns they are to be discussed with me only. Children are actually people and have the right to make decisions for their own bodies. There are many occasions in their lives when my children will experience discomfort, but I will never participate in normalising needless discomfort or suffering to comply with arbitrary rules about things that no one has the right to any input in.