These are all great aims, especially free school meals during holidays, but school uniform is so important! Schools without uniforms make it even easier to spot kids who live in povertyhttps://twitter.com/mcash/status/1305127202237882368 …
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Have seen other people argue that not having uniform means parents don’t have to purchase uniform. But it shows how few clothes you have! Affordable uniforms, eg polo shirts, or white shirts & black bottoms with school tie can be bought cheaply, donated, handed down to siblings
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Similarly, schools that insist on hard to purchase colours, or worse still, that you have to buy from certain shops are knowingly entrenching poverty.
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Replying to @DawnHFoster
My thoughts exactly. When kids have "civvy day" it's obvious which are the kids with very little, and why I used to hate them when mine were at school. My kids were OK but not all their friends were.
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I *hated* non-uniform day, because a) you *had* to donate £1 to charity (that’s a tenner for my family) and b) it really revealed who was poor and who was rich.
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