AIBU to think schools should not allow students to wear black trainers all day, every day?

[Lilyladles]

My child's high school is allowing students to wear black trainers all day. I think this is bad for their feet, more expensive for parents, and a drop in standards.

AIBU?

Age 2? 😱

What kind of idiot does that to a child?

Yes aged 2, the school year they will turn 3.

I don't think I ever felt like I was doing something awful putting my boys in a shirt and my daughter in a blouse and pinafore. They would wear similar to a party anyway so it wasn't that alien.

They looked gorgeous and also had excellent manners from early on.

What people wear has no bearing on their manners. Surely you can see that.

Of course it does. How many times do you see kids wearing suits and ties causing mayhem on the streets?

YANBU
It us a drop in standards.
Trainers are actually not very good for your feet.

I hereby remind you of Gilmore Girls…

Agree.

Being allowed to wear trainers is long overdue. They are good for the feet, comfortable and versatile.

So you've made yourself the dictator of others people's shoe choice for their children? What's it to you what shoes other people's children wear to school? You can dictate what YOUR child wears, but not what others people's children wear! The school "allows" the wearing of trainers, it doesn't mandate them. If you don't want your child to wear them, then don't buy them. Simple. Don't try and push your wants on to every other parent. Too many people are too invested in others people's business these days!

Little children need clothes they can be comfortable in and play in.

Manners have nothing to do with clothes.

'They look gorgeous' makes it all about you, not what's right for a tiny child.

I've seen kids having fights, generally causing mayhem in their school uniforms, all wearing blazers and ties. If someone is going to behave badly their clothes don't change that.

I'm just after going to a podiatrist who specifically recommended trainers.

Oddly enough my kids went to an excellent nursery with no uniform and yet also managed to have excellent manners from an early age. And of course they too looked gorgeous - and were comfortable.

after a broken leg its advised by NHS staff to use crutches, not everyone needs to do this though

I didn't say everyone needs to, just that they are clearly not bad for your feet.