why can't they take their blazers off

[catwoo]

DD started at secondary yesterday.She said one of her teachers refused to give any of the children in her class permission to take their blazers off in class today.And it has been really warm here.

A school can 'request' that a child wears uniform - that's it. Fine wear them, no discrimination but for God's sake use common sense!! My DD was once ordered to do up her top button on her shirt (on a baking hot day!) and straighten her tie - the sweat was pouring off her, her shirt was sticking to her so she simply ripped off her top button and said 'problem solved!!'. She is now an amazing adult with a good job and independent with it!! And yes she did get very good grades even without the top button!!

At DCs very strict school, they have to wear their blazer to and from lessons. They are always removed in certain lessons eg. Science and practical subjects, and in others at the discretion of the teacher, so the first lesson they learn in a new language is "please may I remove my Blazer". Jumpers are optional, but today is the first day DD has gone in without hers, in most of 2years. When it gets really hot they have "shirt sleeve order" but this still involves them wearing their ties. At the end of the summer term they wear house shirts (polo shirts) instead

DD has to wear her blazer to and from school and around school grounds between classes/ at breaks. She can take it off during lessons though.

DS2 thought one of his teachers was hilarious yesterday... He said to the students...

"first thing's first, take your sweaters off as it is mafting in here as we are unable to open the windows".

He loved the word mafting

There's no good reason to keep a jacket on in class - I have never worked in an office, no matter how formal, where people couldn't take their jackets off to do desk-work.
It just smacks of discipline for discipline's sake to me... treating children like army recruits

I am a great believer in uniform but it pisses me off how the point of a uniform can be so blatantly misused if not actually abused by a school.

Surely the points are:

-To level the DC, no competition about who has the trendiest clothes
-To forge a sense of group identity and pride within the school
-If it is a highly regarded school, to make DC feel proud that they can claim allegiance to it whilst out in the community (e.g.Walking to and from school)
-To discourage antisocial behaviour as DC are easier to identify
-If it's a private, to demonstrate how rich the parents are that they can afford the fees .

Within school, within certain guidelines, surely it's just about having clothes on your back?!

Though I don't like the DSs school uniform, black trousers, white badged polo, black badged sweatshirt (they did away with blazers'n'ties in 2002) they look OK, are worn fairly reasonably (apart from the deputy's on going battle with girls and skirt lengths!) and fit with the school's ethos of a relaxed yet focus approach to education.

They also nail the county's best GCSE results for a comp. every year. It is in a very leafy MC area with few social ills so maybe they don't even have to consider the 'discipline effect' or 'belonging to something effect' (other than a street gang) of a strict uniform as endorsed by some of the sponsored inner city academies that replaced badly failing comps.

My sons school got a new head two years ago and the man is obsessive to the point of madness about uniform, every week we get the school news letter and every week there is a massive write up about the importance of uniform and a uniform list, when we had a very hot spell last year ours was the only school that were still wearing blazers, and again this week no one was allowed to take them off.

I support uniform but I am fed up with the madness this new head has brought to it, the school has lost staff, gone down in their ofsted and still he witters on and on about uniform

BECAUSE SCHOOLS ARE MENTAL

Not all schools! I'm a teacher sitting in my room now (after the bell) in a short sleeves top and it is roasting. I've told kids they were mad for sitting in here with their jumpers on! The blazers rule is nuts; petty, pointless and actively mean to children. I wouldn't enforce it in my room.