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

[pigsinmud]

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?

It cracks me up too when kids aren't allowed out because of a bit of bad weather.

Or they can't throw snowballs because of health and safety!!! Like there are legions of canadian kids who are maimed from snowball related injuries!

But Medicine Hat is teeming with British Soliers!

No -I'm from just north of Calgary - went to uni in Calgary....am I still exempt?

I do agree with you though

I have bnever heard of British Kids not allowed to go out and play in the snow - where has they come from ??
What I have seen is 4 yr olds sent to school in snowy weather and with a thin denim jacket instead of a winter coat !
My DSCs used to go to a school which requested shiort and tie from receptio onwards.Elaticated ties weren't available a.Within half a term all teh cghildren could tie tgheir ties and mange their buttons.i think children learn to do as much or as little as they have to !

I married one of those soldiers

Katie - very often my childern have been allowed out - but not on their playing field where all the snow actually is. Its a shame really

No, I am saying that as uniforms are really not necessary, and as some children struggle with fiddly things, then ties and shirts at primary school should not be required. For many children this will be the only time in their lives that they wear such things. Certainly I've never worn a tie beyond primary school, nor do I feel that the ability to do one up has enhanced my life in any way. There are more important things to learn at school. The fact that in the not too distant past children were required to wear even stupider things does not in my mind justify the tie, it just shows that historically schools have not been very child centred.

God stewie - thats awful
My dh is more of a "letting an old lady have his seat type"

Nooka - when I worked I had a seperate smarter wardrobe for work and home. My DH wears a suit and tie to work and has separate clothes for home. Many people feel more comfortable wearing certain clothes for work and a different style of clothes at home. My children enjoy wearing their school uniform to school and seem in no rush to change out of it when they get home.

Not all schools insist on ties some have sweatshirts and polo tops but on the whole the sweatshirts don't wear that well and do not look as smart as a more traditional uniform.

Someone said our education system is not as good as in other countries where uniform is not worn. However our private schools are among the best schools in the world and most private schools have a uniform that includes a tie.

I don't think problems in our schools are caused by children wearing a uniform.

I don't think there would be any advantages in scrapping school uniforms and there would be plenty of drawbacks.

When I saw some "mountains" in scotland I was like..."Where...? THAT???!!! Thats a MOUNTAIN?!"

I have slowly been won over by uniform...with suitable adjustments

If these children were wearing normal day clothes then that would really set them apart but they are still wearing school uniform, children don;t seem to notice what colours their peers are wearing

I think uniforms are tragic for children; being a kid is not supposed to be like being in the army fgs. So I think transgressions are fine.

But happywomble your children could quite easily choose to wear different clothes at school and the weekend if they wanted. I used to wear different clothes at work and at home, and I liked having two different sets of clothes, but now I work somewhere very casual I don't bother - and it really doesn't affect the quality of my work (far more factors are involved than what I wear).

I don't think that anyone said that our schools were worse than in other countries that don't wear uniforms, but they certainly aren't any better, so the argument that uniforms = better students does not in my mind hold much water.

My children didn't bother to change after school when they wore uniform either (although I know families where this is the rule, but I think that's more to save the uniform than because the children disliked the uniform so much), and I don't think they particularly cared what they wore on the whole (except ds used to complain his legs were cold in the thin trousers). Personally I thought they looked perfectly OK in sweatshirts, but then most school uniforms doesn't look very nice really unless they are made of good quality material and cut well, which most uniforms are not except for the very posh and very expensive private school uniforms (I once went to a school where the boys wore pin stripes and wing collars, and they looked really quite sexy to a 16 year old).

I think uniforms if they have to be worn should be comfortable, simple and functional, not mini adult or cutesiepie stuff, and that a lot of the arguments used to justify them simply aren't true.

I think the crux of the matter is that people don't like to be told what to do by teachers whose wages they are paying (either directly or indirectly) through taxation and whom they perceive to be of relatively low social status.

(Dons flack jacket - not saying this is my opinion ,but I do think it is the opinion of many parents at our schools)