Stupidity of white polo shirt for infant school children

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Been up since 5am despite it being a Sunday and am already on 2nd load of panic washing before Monday morning.

This has sparked intense fury at all my kids uniform consisting of a white polo shirt, despite them all being in infant school still. Who on Earth thought it was a good idea to force 4-7 year olds to wear pure white on a daily basis?? All their shirts bought in Sept are completely trashed and stained. Wouldn’t it be more logical to make the uniform a navy or bottle green shirt?? And is a white shirt standard in most primary schools or is there’s an anomaly??

the school they were at before had light yellow shirts so no better. In fact almost worse as they went discoloured really easily.

refuse to replace shirts as they still fit and we are only in January. School will have to put up with looking at my trampy kids instead. Hopefully they will smell that they are in fact clean 😂

I'm horrified at much bleach people use! It's terrible for the environment. I only use it when we've had diarrhoea, norovirus etc - and then on the toilet, not on clothes!

It really doesn't matter if the shirts don't stay immaculate you know.

The whole point of school uniform at this age, is to get destroyed.

I gave up caring.
It was a stupid uniform (white shirt and tie).
The tie used to get chewed too so always looked manky.
I really just didn't care. If the school wanted the children to look smart they should have chosen something more sensible.

I don’t bleach anything ever. My children have pale coloured polo shirts (not white) and I don’t care that they are stained. They’re freshly washed, that’s all that matters. The school has a room full of second hand uniform that you can go into any time and pay a pound for a second hand polo shirt and most have a stain here and there, who cares, it’s better that they are reused. I have better things to do than worry about stained school uniform.

My sons were bottle green and trust me , they just find a way to stain them with white or lighter coloured crap somehow 😂

Ours are a bright golden yellow. So much easier than the white ones in our previous school.

Yes it's ridiculous!

Vanish gets every stain out. The stick to dab the stain then a scoop of the powder in the drawer … whites come out gleaming and stain free. Can’t abide grey whites.

Do you soak in pure bleach?! Doesn't work for our stains!

Me too! I this is all a bit mad. Kids are supposed to be a bit messy

And for whiteboard marker I read that soaking it in milk works, although I've not tried it yet.

I tried and failed with that one, I also tried hairspray, which was also a MN word of wisdom that failed.

I can cope with my youngest looking messy but my oldest who is more messy than the youngest is becoming self conscious about his clothes.

Why can't they just want them to wear cheap white t shirts ? The rules over school uniform or PE kit is annoying
Plus the amount that goes missing too!

I can’t understand why primary school children can’t just wear a tracksuit everyday. Means they wouldn’t have to change before and after PE, and far easier for little ones and parents.

My 4 year wears a white shirt and tie 4 days a week (polo shirt one day a week on PE day) so I think you should probably count yourself lucky.
I just bought enough uniform that I didn’t have to so frantic washing, is that an option?

Sooner have white you can bleach and spot scrub
colours fade and you have to be careful what u use on them

@WellTidy when my eldest started primary they wore joggers and sweatshirts from reception to year 2. It was amazing how many parents of girls complained. They eventually changed it to reception only. Such a shame as it made so much sense.

the only thing that really ruined ours was the non washable paint they used to use! Food stains etc usually come out or at least fade with a long soak and scrub in stain remover. If they’re that bad I’d just go and get some more from the supermarket

Why did they complain?

I'd love that

@QuertyGirl because they wanted their girls to wear dresses and skirts.

It’s usually the girls themselves who don’t want to wear trousers..

Skirts are less practical.

Never understood why they are part of school uniforms at all.

I'd stick them all in track suits or onesies. Simple, practical, warm and cheap

White is the best colour for stain removal. Just soak in water with Ace bleach on Friday night, quick rinse and straight in the wash on Saturday night. I bought a lidded bucket so I don't have to take up a sink.

The skirt thing is interesting. When my daughter was nursery/reception age a lot of the girls got in a tangle with their skirts when using the toilet.
They were pulling the skirts down (and often taking them off completely) rather than lifting them up.
It was often the first time many were wearing skirts as they had spent the first 3/4 years of their lives in leggings 😂

I always thought this but now mine are in y3 and above its not an issue. At least I could bleach them unlike the sweatshirts which also got covered in pen and paint which never came out. I don't buy new mine just wore stained, no-one cares.

DS1 had white and DS2 had yellow. Yellow so much easier to keep clean.