To think that the school is going too far with this.

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At the end of last half term we got a letter home from school (primary).They are starting a new scheme where if a child goes for a half term without being absent then they can wear their own clothes on the last day of the half term.But if they have been off at all they have to wear uniform.
I would imagine that most children manage to go 5 or 6 weeks without illness ,so it will be the minority who are left in uniform.
Is it right to 'punish' children for being ill and by making them stand out by wering different clothes to the majority ?
(The school has no serious problems with absence-well below national average)

YANBU.

The schools tactical release of this info, just prior to half term (obviously hoping most parents will have forgotten/ feel less reactive after a week long break) would only make me more determined to address it with them.

• what Bran said!

This is silly, the children can't help being ill!

My mother used to send us to school with heavy colds, because she was so keen on good attendance, we were the only children creeping round the place with red noses and throats on fire, and not enough hankies.

What is this obsession with attendance targets at the moment? They're hitting on the wrong people in my opinion. The perpetual truants who spend their days wandering round shopping precincts are the problem, not your average family whose kids have a couple of days here and there for flu-ey tummy bugs or even, God forbid, an extra day's holiday once in a while.

So, yes. Crap idea. YANBU.

I think this is wrong too. Our school also lets children who walk to school everyday wear their own clothes at the end of half term. So basically if you have parents who work and have to take their children to breakfast club then those children are the only ones wearing uniform. I think it's horridble and devisive and gives yet another reason to single a child out from it's peers.