wrote:
On Tuesday, 10 September 2019 21:53:19 UTC+1, Vir Campestris wrote:
On 09/09/2019 09:56, tabbypurr wrote:

I've never had much time for the whole uniform thing, seems petty &
pointless. None of 'my' schools had uniforms & it was never a problem.

The advantage is it stops them competing with Gucci and the like.

Andy

not really a problem for the school


Im afraid it is.

I trained in an all girls school where the girls were required to wear a
uniform. Besides the (inevitable) individual problems when girls turned up
with something which didnt comply - skirt too short was the most common,
make up of course, the €˜hot potato was, believe or no, carrier bags.

There was a pecking order based on the designer carrier bag you carried
your books in. Yes, the kind of bag you (well perhaps your daughter) might
get if she shopped in a flash London shop. Not only did the name count to
establish the pecking order, so did the size, the smaller the better. I
dont think for one minute the girls concerned actually shopped in these
places, they may have walked by them, it was all teenage nonsense.


Not only did this create problems when bags got damaged, got lost, etc,
some of these bags were tiny and the pupils were turning up to lessons
without books claiming they couldnt fit them in their bag.

Yes, it was dealt with etc but it took time and effort which could have
been more usefully used in other ways.

On the wider subject of uniforms, they help instil a sense of self respect
etc if the rules are enforced.