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Post by crazy4scraps on Aug 22, 2019 1:12:12 GMT
The district we live in wears regular clothes. The district my husband teaches in is uniforms. I hate uniforms. The parents hate the uniforms. The kids hate the uniforms. The teachers hate the uniforms. I'm at a loss as to why everyone hates uniforms so much! Both our DS and DD wore uniforms all their school life - from kindergarten to year 12. It certainly made for an easy life and I always found that the cost of uniforms was certainly affordable at the time. Other clothes that were needed for out of school wear were always that bit better than if I was having to dress them in regular clothes all week. Most of the schools here both private and public have uniforms. Some public schools have both uniforms (specific shorts/trousers and polo shirts with school logo) but also allow a standardised uniform which is shorts/trousers in specific colour usually black or navy blue and a polo shirt in the school colour. Private schools have the full range of shirt, ties, blazers, dress or skirt with blouse, trousers and shorts, sox all with leather shoes and a full sports uniform as well and often some type of hat, beret or cap as well. To me a uniform shows pride in their surroundings, respect for their school and equalises students. I attended a private elementary school and had to wear uniforms as a kid and I hated it. The fabric was polyester, stiff and scratchy, not to mention super ugly. Girls had to wear a white shirt and had the choice of wearing a bibbed plaid jumper or skirt (which the boys would constantly try to flip up in back) or we could wear long navy blue corduroy pants which was really hot in the early fall and late spring. The worst part was that the uniforms were expensive so only the rich kids had enough of them to wear a clean set every day. Most of the poorer kids only had a couple sets of them to wear all week, and by about day 3 those kids would smell RANK. As if it wasn’t hard enough going to school with stuck up kids that would pick on other kids because they didn’t have the right shoes or brand name polo shirt or whatever, they’d pick on you mercilessly if you stunk too.
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Post by utmr on Aug 22, 2019 2:09:38 GMT
The two older kids had uniforms/“standardized dress” for elementary - red, white, or navy tops (logo optional) with khaki, navy, or denim bottoms. The youngest was free dress (different school).
All three for middle school required the middle school logo polo. Of course three different middle schools so no hand me downs! One was purple, white, or grey logo polo with blue denim bottoms. One was red, white, or black logo polos with khaki bottoms - pleated all around skirts only, no skorts - those were a pain to find. And the third was white (6th), red (7th), and black (8th) logo polos with khaki bottoms. Sweatshirts matched the appropriate colors. Honestly it made life easier because there was no leeway or arguments.
High school is basically “cover all your naughty bits” and no drug or gang symbols.
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RedSquirrelUK
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Location: The UK's beautiful West Country
Aug 2, 2014 13:03:45 GMT
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on Aug 22, 2019 9:48:56 GMT
We are uniform only. Small private catholic school. First Friday of every month (and a couple of other special days thrown in) are non-uniform days. And the kids go NUTS over them. I personally do not love uniforms. I didn’t like when I had to wear them, and I don’t particularly live my kids in them. But I adore this school. In the UK pretty much all schools wear uniforms and the kids all hate them on principle. We had "own clothes" days too, usually one of the last Fridays of each term, and my mother used to kill herself laughing at all the kids walking past in almost identical jeans, black tops and trainers.
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Gillyflower
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Location: QLD, Australia
Jul 16, 2014 12:06:56 GMT
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Post by Gillyflower on Aug 22, 2019 12:41:53 GMT
Every school has a uniform here. My boys go to a state school and they have a specific branded uniform with an option to buy navy standardised items like track pants for cooler days or sports polos. They also have the branded option if you'd prefer. I like it and was happy to wear one when I went to school. It meant I didn't have to worry about what I was wearing and took some stress out of the morning. I wear a uniform to work and am just as happy with that. I have a set of small drawers and load up each day with school items - undies,socks, shorts, top, hat and jumper. Done for the week. No moaning about why isn't this top washed or that Billy has these cool shoes. Everyone has school shoes. I told one of my boys that if he wasn't happy with wearing his black school shoes, he should go and discuss it with the principal as I didn't make the rules. I find it takes off a lot of pressure.
Gilly.
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Post by ExpatBackHome on Aug 22, 2019 12:50:01 GMT
Uniforms. There is a store where you buy the uniforms. Boys from grade 1 have to wear black pants and button up school shirt, black socks, black belt, plus all black shoes. They have to wear the school tie once it hits below 104 degrees. They change into their PE uniform for PE.
button up shirt costs $28 USD each, pants costs $35 USD each
Kids in kindergarten and preK have a PE uniform to wear everyday
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janeinbama
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Posts: 3,176
Location: Alabama
Jan 29, 2015 16:24:49 GMT
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Post by janeinbama on Aug 22, 2019 16:50:25 GMT
All the private schools have uniforms and the largest public school system is in standarized uniforms and all the surrounding schools are in regular clothes.
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