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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Fly on September 15, 2013, 09:07:14 AM

Title: School uniforms, about time too.
Post by: Fly on September 15, 2013, 09:07:14 AM

Schools banned from insisting parents buy expensive school uniform to ease the burden on family finances

My mother used to make my trousers for school herself. A blazer was an option, not a necessity.
The only thing you had to buy was the school tie.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2420800/Schools-banned-insisting-parents-buy-expensive-school-uniform-ease-burden-family-finances.html?ito=feeds-newsxml (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2420800/Schools-banned-insisting-parents-buy-expensive-school-uniform-ease-burden-family-finances.html?ito=feeds-newsxml)

Title: Re: School uniforms, about time too.
Post by: Pete on September 15, 2013, 11:04:26 AM

About time too.

Title: Re: School uniforms, about time too.
Post by: Old Cruser on September 15, 2013, 11:48:24 AM

There has been a lot of complaints in the DT this week from parents who have had children pulled out after inspection on the back to school day and have been told they can't go back into school unless they get proper shoes etc.

I welcome the news this morning about the uniforms.

Title: Re: School uniforms, about time too.
Post by: Big Dave on September 16, 2013, 08:53:43 AM

Surely school governors are parents too; don't they realise the strain having to buy expensive uniforms places on family budgets?

Title: Re: School uniforms, about time too.
Post by: Old Cruser on September 16, 2013, 02:59:42 PM

Going back a few years when I had children in school I can only remember Littlewoods and M&S who stocked school uniforms in black and I think blue.
Once Littlewoods had closed that left M&S - it's a costly job to kit out kids and if a parents has two or three - must be a nightmare.