From September dc's school are changing their uniform, from a practical, smart, modern, comfortable, hard-wearing, easy-to-care-for, cotton-mix poloshirt and sweatshirt, to a stupid, ugly, old-fashioned, synthetic-loaded button-up shirt and tie with equally stupid, ugly, old-fashioned, coarse, synthetic, jumper.
Apparently this will be more comfortable for the children to wear , they will look smarter , and it will be more hard-wearing .
Opinions on style and practicality aside, the synthetic material makes my skin crawl. If I were to wear that jumper, my skin would literally crack and bleed. It was wearing synthetic jumpers at school that triggered my contact dermatitis. I can't bear the thought of handling it, and certainly don't want to expose my dc to developing contact dermatitis.
Urgh!
Yuck!
And, yes, I did make my opinions known, and voted. But it was a fait-bloody-accompli from the start.
Oh, yes, and the icing on the cake: they don't have to struggle with a tie, they can wear a clip-on tie. So why bother with a tie at all!?