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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Badges are a big bugbear of mine. So unnecessary. If schools are so intent on them, they should bulk buy them themselves, and hand out iron on ones from the school office.
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Argh! I went to a school that insisted girls always bring spare tights in case you got ladders: the spares *had* to be in fresh packaging.
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The argument was similar to the “broken windows” theory, that enforcing discipline = well-behaved kids, but it just punished poverty.
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