Parents can save up to €100 by buying generic uniforms, but many schools still require branded or crested items

by Static-Jak

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  2. My kids school is the same. But we get the uniform elsewhere for cheaper and buy the iron on crest for €3. 2 minute job to iron it on and it never comes off.

  3. One of the many things I enjoy about our Educate Together school is the lack of uniform.
    The children are thought to respect each other and the fears people have about no uniforms just never materialised.

  4. Yeah it’s a scam, I remember my school was trying to enforce having the polos with the crest by threatening detentions for those who didn’t have them, they quickly realised how bad an idea that was

  5. What’s a scam is those shit jackets in secondary school that they’d make you buy for 70€. You’d be in trouble wearing a normal jacket which wasn’t fair. And the jackets for 70 euro were shite. They were flimsy so they were no use in the winter or in heavy rain. A jacket in pennies would’ve done the job.

  6. Blazers shouldn’t be compulsory any more, they’re outdated and needlessly expensive. No reason why kids can’t wear a plain soft shell jacket with the school crest

  7. School uniforms are such an outdated idea same as religion in schools.

  8. A question. Put on it fake brand? Now it’s easy make one.. it’s 2025..

  10. My local school just changed to a thin, shiny tracksuit that’s ugly, looks shit quality, and costs 60 euro for bottoms, top, and polo shirt. It has both school colours on it in stripes down the legs and arms so you’d never get anything close in Dunnes or wherever. It beggars belief.

  11. Can the department of education not just make a rule that crested uniforms aren’t allowed and a generic option must be available?

  12. My school used to fine people for doing that! It’s a long time ago but they were fond of the £3.00 or €5.00 fines for “uniform violations” which included stuff like having the wrong colour socks, not having your shirt ironed … it was such b/s!

  13. Some schools insist on their uniforms be weird colours so that generic jumpers can’t be used

  14. A massive, massive scam when schools can force you to buy branded items that are worse quality than even what Penney’s can offer. The school in my town forced us to buy everything from a shop run by the husband of the school secretary. The markup they charged was insane, and when the supermarkets started selling generics they claimed it was “illegal” to wear unbranded uniforms to school, and that paedophiles would buy Tesco uniforms to infiltrate the schools. The secretary started unilaterally giving detentions out for students in the wrong uniforms, the PTA revolted and the school caved in and the generics were finally allowed. Just a massive gombeen biting the hand that feeds it, incapable of running a business unless they had zero competition.

  15. We can only buy ours off one guy who only opened for orders in June. €300-400 spent for uniforms for one (growing) child for the year. It’s stupid.

  16. I understand the value of the uniform, but old though it should just be a cheap tracksuit with a crest nothing else.

  17. Such utter sh!the forcing parents to buy the most expensive

  18. Only thing that was crested in our kids NS was the track suit.

    Crested polos and jumpers were available, but optional. 

    The parents assoc. one year got notions and decided to put it to a vote to make the polos and jumpers compulsory. 

    It was a no vote. They didn’t publish the results 🤣🤣

  19. I live in the uk but it’s the same issues here.

    My kids secondary school has been the worst. My daughter started 5 years ago with a crested jumper, blazer and pe kit and a tie.

    Two years ago they changed the colour of the jumper so I had to buy new ones. She probably would have needed them anyway but it meant I couldn’t use her old ones as hand me downs for her brother who started last year. They also changed the tie colour so had to buy a new one. They also moved to an all black pe kit. Had to buy black t shirts online as no where sells them where I live without some sort of logo branding.

    Then this year they have decided to change the uniform again. They are now moving to sweaters instead of jumpers and no blazer and polo shirts instead of shirts. The new sweaters are still branded so still can’t even buy cheap generic ones. I was pretty angry with the change as I keep having to replace things that are still in good condition and the fact they still have branding makes me think the school are actually completely clueless about how much of a expense uniforms are.

  21. We buy the dunnes jumpers and there is a local embroidery person who does a creative for 6e per jumper . Does us grand

  22. And what’s up with school books changing every year? Can’t pass down to younger siblings. Are Folens paying politicians in ‘brown envelopes’?

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