AIBU Schools making pupils wear blazers and jumpers in this heat

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Every time it’s hot during school time, you hear of schools still insisting that their pupils wear blazers or just their jumpers. https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/kingswood-academy-send-home-defiant-121507.amp

https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/19462070.wearing-school-blazers-heatwave---readers-say/

What do schools think they are going to achieve from not relaxing the rules? Nothing. More pupils becoming ill, parents keeping their DC away.

It’s barbaric behaviour. Yet I doubt that they make the teachers, non teachers staff wear blazers and wear summer clothes with short sleeves.

It's awful.... A memory popped up on DD phone last week of an email I sent the head teacher about a heat wave 15 years ago and the boys being allowed to wear shorts and the girls not. The girls option was trousers or skirts and DD hated skirts!

Unfortunately those people are not fit to be school leaders.
Schools have lost the plot, there's insufficient oversight of academies and senior leaders can be very peculiar.

The secondary my kids go to is allowing them to go in in PE kit this week.

My daughter's school sent us an alert yesterday, telling us the children can wear PE kit until and including Thursday... shorts and tshirt. So relieved. Wearing a blazer or jumper in 37 degree heat is officious insanity.

It's just daft controlling behaviour from schools. I remember the 40 degree heatwave a couple of years back, my daughter was still required to wear tights and they weren't allowed to wear socks or shorts 🙄

Luckily the schools round here seem sensible.

SM posts all over reminding pupils it’s now no blazers required the rest of summer term, some saying PE kits can be worn, some saying to be worn and my DS school have allowed knee length tailored shorts with no ties in the summer for both sexes since he started over 10 years ago.

my own school has sent a message saying wear lose fitting cool clothing. I imagine many won’t even wear the uniform!

It is barbaric. Please remember it is not the teachers fault. They are following rules from higher powers within the school. It is unfair to compare the teachers when they have no say.

That’s your daughters problem 🤷‍♀️ She was given an option and she declined it.

My son’s secondary allows PE kit for uniform in hot weather. They send out an email the day before - not just the kids’ choice! My son was hardly in normal uniform for Summer 2 last year.

He has been in shirt and trousers (no blazer last week) up to now but it’s PE kit this week and will be reviewed for next week at the end of this week.

Seems like a thoughtful and pragmatic solution.

YANBU, our school is strict about school uniform but have ‘summer uniform’ in hot weather which means no ties or blazers needed.
If the government can make schools keep uniform costs down by limiting the number of non-generic items, surely they can make them have a sensible hot weather uniform policy?

The fact it is left to individual heads is a real issue - most are sensible, some are not.

We need much better oversight of academies to ensure kids are not subject to weird decisions from senior leaders.

If shorts are permitted they should be permitted for all.

Why should the boys have an option to wear shorts, but not the girls?

God help you if you can't see the insanity that girls can't wear shorts but only trousers or skirts!

Crazy. Our secondary has a 'hot weather protocol' of no blazers or ties. I think it has uniform shorts (knee length?) anyway.

No way!
Ours used to send reminders to dress for the weather (meaning shorts or school dress in primary), allowed PE kit for the whole school day and sent reminders of drinking plenty and take water bottles with you.
Which type of barbarian is going to demand blazers in summer?
This of schools interfering with body autonomy... how much clothing children wear in summer, toilet access denied...
It is just plain weird!

The secondary school near us has said PE kit is fine this week. And I think my primary aged DDs will be fine in their summer dresses.

I think if my child went to a school that was genuinely still insisting on tights and a blazer this Wednesday/Thursday (37 degrees forecast where we are), I wouldn’t send them.

ds school have sent out a note saying no blazers ties or jumpers needed this week. The primary I work at have given the option of school PE kit.

We’re lucky here. No blazers since half term and this week it’s PE kit and trainers.

same for primary - pe kit this week.

Sounds like cruelty for cruelty's sake. Why oh why do some people love inflicting suffering on others?

Don't think it was DD problem... The problem was the discrimination between the different sexes..

PE kits sound like a great option some schools are allowing...

Our school is in PE kit this week. I think it's insane that any head teacher would insist on blazers in 36 degrees. They need to adapt because heatwaves aren't going away

I agree entirely. I hate uniform at the best of times and always blessed ds’s schools for being appropriately slack about policing their horrid costumes, and didn’t require the poor teachers to do it.

Ds has gone on to work in tech, where the idea of wearing a shirt and tie is a bizarre joke.

Any head teacher requiring this sort of thing should face a case under the Health and Safety at Work regulations imo.

UK school uniforms, esp secondary, are bonkers. They look like mini estate agents/funeral directors.

Honestly, trousers/skirts/shorts, shirt (long sleeve in the winter, short in the summer) and a v -necked jumper for when it's cold would suffice. The first two in standard school colours that are very cheap and easily available and a school brand jumper, preferably not 100% acrylic.

Same for primary except polo shirts. Maybe a sweatshirt rather than jumper.

Ive worked for a big academy chain that made staff wear blazers and closed toe shoes year round. Occasional permission for everyone to take blazers off (staff and students ) but you had to carry it with you.
Bonkers