to think people should dress their children in the correct uniform?

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The uniform is blue shirts or polo shirts, grey trousers for boys and navy skirt/pinafore for girls. There is a boy who always wears a white shirt and now his sister has started she is wearing a white polo shirt with a grey skirt?!

I mean does the mother not notice that her children are the only ones in white shirts? All other girls are in navy pinafores apart from her dd. Her dd looks like she goes to a different school as she looks so different to the other girls.

It's getting on my nerves. AIBU?

Uniform = uniformity
A nation of little brainwashed children who
all do and think what they are told. Never, ever questioning why.
Leads to a nation of adults who all do and think what they are told to do and think. Makes ruling them a whole lot easier.
Can you tell I don't agree with school uniform?

YANBU - they should wear the correct colours.

I get wound up by people buying checked summer dresses when they are supposed to be stripey.

There is too much tacky uniform around thanks to the availability of £2 supermarket clothes. I think uniform should be decent quality (not nylon) and made to last!

Rant over!

I think there should be reasonable give and take based on individual circumstances.

Amen Riven.
Summer uniforms in particular are a ridiculous expense as many children will need a bigger size the following year. So that's a new uniform item for only one term.

Riven - I don't think its a case of not affording for the majority of parents in my DCs school. It is in a wealthy area. There is always lots of second hand uniform for sale at £1 an item and not much of it is snapped up.

I hate school uniform. I think kids should be dressed in any rainbow coloured stuff that they like and are comfortable in. Right I am off to hug a tree

Agree with the OP that the most important thing about school is being the same as others.

Never mind reading and writing, but for god's sake learn how to blindly follow others and to suppress all individuality.

It's what made this country what it is today

If the important thing about school is being the same as everybody else mine have no hope .

mintycane - have you asked your children what they like. My DD loves her school uniform and refuses to take it off till bedtime. I think most children like to be wearing the same as their friends and it gives them a sense of belonging.

It would look better if all schools had blue uniforms though. I would hate to have to send my children to school in a yellow uniform for eg.!!

My youngest would like to wear wellies a tutu and a Hulk t - shirt to school. She just doesn't want anyone to see her pants. That is her main priority right now.

YABU, dd goes to a school with uniform and a minority of the older girls don't wear the green scool jumper/cardigan but instead wear a black skirt, whie blouse and black tank top/cardigan whatever.
I think if the parents were sending them in jeans or whatever I could maybe see other parents being a bit peeved as it may then lead to pressure from their children because they see other kids being allowed but they are still wearing school unfiform aren't they? Yes it's not the specified colour but it is still a smart school uniform and not a fashion parade so what really is the big deal?

Middle one tells me she would wear her Jedi training camp t shirt and jeans and does not want to wear HSMusical tops like all her friends.

happywomble it is possible to belong in a group and be different from everybody else in it - makes life more interesting. My six year old is not at all like her classmates but they value her.

why do you need to dress differently to show you are different? No children are the same are they? puzzled by your post.

I don't think you do need to dress differently, but you may feel more comfortable, appropriate etc. in your own preferred choice of clothing.

I don't understand or agree with the view that wearing a uniform suppresses individuality. There are plenty of jobs where a uniform is a prerequisite: if you want to be a police officer, a surgeon, a traffic warden, a chef, a nurse, or you want to attend your university graduation ceremony, you need to toe the line and wear the uniform. It does not stop you being an individual or using your brain.

At school, uniform helps to create a sense of belonging to a community or group and it helps to eliminate division based on clothing choices. It's also cheaper than most "normal" clothes. It's nothing about churning out generations who can't think for themselves- what tosh.

Fayrazzled: I think the advantages, such as they are, of uniform (easy identification when out and about, sense of belonging etc) are all available when the uniform rules are few and not too rigorously enforced (ie DC have a choice between two colours of skirts/trousers/shorts/shirts and can either wear the logoed school sweater or a plain coloured one). However, when a school gets stupidly, pointlessly pissy about things like what colour socks are worn, how long hair is permitted to be, number of buttons done up on a coat etc, then that's a school where the ethos is about enforcing conformity and pandering to the sort of morons who think that education is about ticking boxes, passing exams and keeping a distance from foreigners and poor people.

hmmm gues if Ds wears the same as all the other kids he wont stand out .As no one going to notice his wheelchair ihis splints or the fact he can`t talk.

Ds is going to wear what he is cosy in and what he likes and school can suck eggs

tbh, i'm not keen on uniform & don't think it achieves anything. so long as parents make the effort to keep kids reasonably smart etc.

however, i did get annoyed with someone in dd's school in the UK, they sent the girl in wearing lelly kelly trainers & a pink cardi. why? cos they couldn't afford shoes (but the trainers were over 40 quid & a present for not kicking mum for a whole week), and apparently she'd screamed til she got her way about the pink cardi.

just giving in to kids like that annoys me far more than what they wear.

I'm of the opinion that if there is a uniform in place, then it should be worn (although comfort comes higher up the list with wheelchairs etc obv).

"Uniform = uniformity
A nation of little brainwashed children who
all do and think what they are told. Never, ever questioning why.
Leads to a nation of adults who all do and think what they are told to do and think."

Yes... because no-one who was raised wearing uniforms ever questions anything .