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Original poster

Are LEA funded infant schools allowed to have compulsary school uniform????

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CarGirl · 29/09/2007 20:41

Anybody know?

In particular are they allowed to insist that girls cannot wear trousers when the boys can

TIA

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cece · 29/09/2007 21:23

Not hopeful at all. The admissions office told me to fill all three choices or I would get my nearest school. It is the distance in a straight line that buggers it up. If it was the safest route to school as before then it would be better.

cece · 29/09/2007 21:24

sorry didn't mean to hijack.

I think you should raise the issue of trousers with the head - she seemed very nice and approachable.

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CarGirl · 29/09/2007 21:24

I think DD transferring to SC will mean that SC infant will be better than DD was as lots of parents who would have put theirs into OP/St P will have to go to SC. I think demand will increase for The G though especially with the knock on effect of the Byfleet school having closed.

I'm so p'd off that my children are affected by it all - imagine potentially there will be 300 children at OP when my dd2 is in year 5 they just don't have the outside space and they will have 5 extra classrooms

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cece · 29/09/2007 22:01

That is what I am worried about. DD currently at G but transferring to juniors next year - that is another issue/application altogther!

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CarGirl · 29/09/2007 22:08

So will you have one transferring Sep '08 to juniors and another starting infants at the same time??

house move???

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cece · 29/09/2007 22:34

I know

Think it is going to be stressful. TBH we don't live near to any schools so there isn't an obvious choice.

melpomene · 30/09/2007 11:41

Information from the Equal Opportunities Commission

If I were you I would send her in trousers.

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CarGirl · 30/09/2007 12:48

Thank you, think I will send a letter to the governers stating both the websites that seem to agree if it went to court they would rule in favour of trousers being allowed

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islandofsodor · 30/09/2007 20:16

My dd goes to an independant school and has to wear a pinafore and a specified style at that, no trousers allowed.

However, at state primary schools, they can not legally enforce any uniform.

I suspect what would happen at a school like my dd's if something went to court they would allow trousers, but only the exact same style as the boys, so no fashionable bootleg types, so it would put people off wearing them anyway.

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