Teacher fashions?!

[Gracie69]

Funny stuff from 'Crapteacher' about what teachers wear - doesn't sound like things have changed much from my day!!!

crapteacher.wordpress.com/2012/03/16/after-a-fashion/

The staff at my DS' school must be smart at all times, the men have to wear suits and the ladies either skirt/suits or skirt/formal trousers and blouse. The head demands that the students wear uniform and she also demands that the staff are properly dressed too - and yes she has sent staff home to change when they didn't meet the dress code!! As she says - I will do it to a student so why should a member of staff be any different - they should know better!!. The students love it and they respect her for it too!!

Sounds a bit like DD2s school. The kids uniform is a suit. All the teachers male and female wear suits. At open evenings etc they are seem to have identical ones in the same colour as the kids uniform suits. They think it makes them look professional and business like, but I think it makes them look like they belong to some weird cult. The male ones tend to have their hair cut really short as well or shaved if they are balding. Actually the first time I saw a group of the SLT standing together in the street, I mistook them for gangsters waiting for their boss to come out of one of the posh houses near the school and felt quite intimidated. I realised later they must have been keeping an eye on the kids' behaviour on the way home from school.

A member of staff should be different because they are an adult and not a child. They are, to a certain extent, in charge; they make and enforce the rules. In schools I have worked at the staff have to present an absolutley united front. If the girls found out a teacher had been sent home for not dressing properly they would be eaten alive after that.

I do, however, think that teachers should dress appropriately/fairly formally but there is no need to send an adult home from work!

Totally agree with blueemerald. I'm quite happy for teachers to have a reasonable dress code, which can be enforced behind the scenes if neccessary - but there's absolutely no way they should be publicly treated as if they are on the same level as a student.

Funnily enough, DD would agree with bossboggle (in DD's words "it's not fair, they're no better than us - if we have to wear a uniform, so should they") and it's precisely that kind of attitude that is showing signs of hampering her learning and that I'm trying to nip in the bud.

I'd go as far as saying that teachers being treated like idiots who can't be trusted to dress themselves professionally, and have to be prescribed a uniform, would actively put me off applying to a school.

That is quite a funny article btw - I'm sure teachers do end up adopting a "teacher uniform" of their own anyway.

There must be some secret "teacher shops" somewhere that sell special teacher outfits.

At dd's primary school, every single teacher wears black trousers, rather too tight blouse with puff sleeves and waterfall cardigan. Every single one. The men favour the shiny suit and 1990s tie look.

At ds's secondary school I've only seen the teachers at parents' evening. Men and women were wearing suits, with the exception of the French teacher (who is French) who was wearing a rather arty kaftan-y sort of affair. I was amused to see the PE staff, even at parents' evening, dressed in full Britas Empire garb.

That article is hilarious. My dh wears memory sticks strewn round his neck along with a name tag and looks like he's wearing ridiculous necklaces. He also wear elbow patches on one jacket and has numerous boring dark suits and a bald gangstery head.

I must look like a different teacher everyday! Sometimes I think 'roar, I'm going to wear a suit' (that bemuses my form who routinely ask me if there's a parents' eve they've forgotten or if I've got an interview, or 'why are you so smart today miss?"), sometimes it's dresses for weeks at a time, and sometimes the old 'office trousers, top and cardigan' look (always brown trousers though, can't do black)...

It's my hair what lets me down - i START the day neat and brushed, invariably end it with some kind of futuristic catwalk look.

I've just read the entire blog! NONE of my A Level coursework marked! I'll be up till all hours now < mutters > (9 or even 9.15pm!)

Glad to see you've got your priorities sorted out!

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Glad to see you've got your priorities sorted out!

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You can say that again...oh you did! Hmmm, wonder what 'uniform' Mr. Crapteacher wears??? Somehow don't see him in the shiny suit.

see I can't wear suits. Am 5ft and a size 12/14 so any kind of suit just looks shit (big boobs too). My school in theory demands that staff meet the same standard as the students (ie a suit) but dresses, smart trousers and jumpers etc seem to be ok. The biggest problem women teachers have actually is being demure enough - nothing worse than cleavage in front of an all boys class of teenagers! Lots of office wear would be impractical.

Yes, if you read the blog, you can see I address the cleavage issue. In fact, it's something I feel needs to be closely looked at...

www.crapteacher.wordpress.com/

i wear dresses or tops and trousers.
Only really smart (suit) if i have a meeting or ofsted are in.