Schools to be banned from demanding parents buy too many branded uniform items

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1. Great news it shouldn’t be expensive to clothe your child for school.

2. Hopefully this happens. It cost me £40 for a blazer just because it had the logo on. You can pick up the same blazer without a logo for £10.

3. It’s ridiculous bs imo. When I was at school my mum would just sew the badge on my uniform. I can’t believe how schools exploit parents these days.

   Seriously just let parents buy standard school trousers etc then sew the badge etc

   Prices these days are just terrible

4. At my kid’s school all branded items are optional. As long as the kid is in grey, black or navy they don’t care. It’s the best way. Also they sell secondhand branded items at 50p a piece.

5. This keeps coming up again and again… I will believe it when it actually happens.

6. Absolute bullshit money making nonsense.

   Kids having to wear a uniform is fine, but it should be like “smart casual, dark low-heel shoes, dark jacket, white button-up shirt. No writing, images, obvious logos, brandings, club, gang or football markings”

7. There was a shop in my town that bought unbranded generic uniforms and embroidered the logos themselves but they were forced to close as someone else had an exclusive contract. They had been half the price.

8. I once had a discussion with someone who claimed that school uniforms were actually good for parents’ wallets because they don’t have to “keep up with the other kids’ fashion trends”.

   Yeah okay. Now they still have their kid begging them to buy stuff (that has actual resale value when they grow out of it), and on top of that they have to buy stupidly-inflated prices for clothes that can only be used for a limited time, at a limited place.

   Get rid of school uniforms.

9. I’m a teacher and I think this is brilliant news. Even better get rid of outdated uniforms completely.

10. There was an OFT code but loads of schools ignored it.

11. There’s zero reason for these things to have logos on them at all. At the very worst case set a handful of colours so that the local schools can use different ones but it should be few enough that the supermarkets can offer a reasonable number of SKUs.

12. I like to buy my child nice stuff and can afford to do so. School uniform however, gets thrashed and they grow out of it. I’m happy to pick through the lost property for clothes, picked up a cardi and a jumper the other day for free. Who cares, it won’t be loved and she’ll be out of it in 3 months

13. It’s been against official guidance for years but schools ignored it.

14. >> “There is a significant risk that the government’s decision will adversely impact pupils and school life in general by undermining the welfare and attainment benefits that uniform is there to preserve”

    Hilarious

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