Should just do away with uniforms. They’re a load of bollocks.
I’ve been to loads of meetings about uniforms. Parents councils as a general rule don’t want generic uniforms and as a rule usually push the costs higher than the school envisaged.
People give out about the cost of uniforms but don’t bother to attend meetings that determine the uniforms.
Change the overpriced jumpers for pull over hoodies, the kids would prefer it and there far cheaper . The jumpers with the embroidered logo are the biggest cost.
Generic uniforms need to be a thing.
One of the private schools did a sports jumper and jeans 20 years ago. Although they charge 8k a year they had the most user friendly approach.
Hope we can move away from uniforms entirely, most of Europe doesn’t and had no issues.
Don’t most schools have a school tracksuit now?
Should have a country wide uniform if they must.
Make more sense for handing down and buying cheaply.
Isn’t education free? What happens to the child if they don’t have an uniform?
70 quid for a full uniform is not that bad.
What are these auld ones giving out about
My daughter goes to secondary this year, with all compulsory branded uniform (including coat!) and book rental fees it’s almost €700, not including her runners. It’s a bloody scam.
same thing every year regarding school costs, if you don’t have the money there is a uniform allowance to pay for it.
Also people need to consider false economies when buying cheap uniforms instead of the high quality one, they will end up buying more of the supermarket version then if they had bought the official one which will last the year.
Is there not enough uniforms in circulation to stop buying new ones altogether and for the past pupils ones to be repurposed? Or is this new uniform some sort of high tech yolk that’s absolutely essential to suit todays world or something?
Comfortable polo shirt, jumper and track bottoms, generic colours, available from numerous retailers. Worn 5 days a week.
I’m not incapable. It’s just bullshit. Reiterate your bullshit. Go ahead. Substantiate it while you’re down there.
Regatta navy coat in school shop.. €65
Identical coat in hardware store.. €40
Robbery.
Yet another benefit of no uniforms. We should make Educate Together available to more people.
Magically this is atopic on the Niall boylan show today 😂😂
Generic generic generic. Fuck any schools requiring branded shit. Looking at you de lá sál.
So we have a friend whose child started a new school a few years back. It was a brand new school and the child was starting in first year.
Before the school opened, the board of directors asked parents to give their opinion on uniforms and the response was overwhelmingly against. So, for school decided no uniforms.
That didn’t stop several uniform suppliers from hounding the school demanding they implement a uniform policy. They were pretty hardcore in their arguments saying stuff like without a uniform the students will misbehave and other crazy stuff. It got to the point where the chairman of the board of directors had to tell them to back off and that the school didn’t owe them a living.
Uniforms should be abolished, they are such a outdated concept
Send the kids to school in normal clothes, if enough parents do it the school can’t expel all the kids.
My primary school headmaster brought in new uniforms in 99/00 to replace the shirt and ties. It was essentially a generic navy tracksuit (£10) with a polo t-shirt (£3).
He did it to cut expenses for parents, but he sold it to us by saying the Olympics were coming up and he wanted to promote athletics. Those uniforms are still in use today except they’ve added a crest.
He was a great man.
Whatever about the uniforms, I’ve always wondered why the Dept. or even a group of like minded teachers never set about creating “open source/royalty free” pdf textbooks that could be distributed for free as PDF or indeed printed in bulk at low cost.
Such a fkn fix is the uniforms racket.
People like to argue that if there are no uniforms, kids will be bullied for not having nice clothes. But a recent study came out showing there “school uniforms were not linked to any differences in bullying or social anxiety in the children” ([source](https://news.osu.edu/school-uniforms-dont-improve-child-behavior-study-finds/)) and but students who wore uniforms felt *lower* levels of community and belonging.
So it’s a lot of money for no benefit. Girls uniforms can be especially expensive because schools just love having their own tartan skirts, whereas trousers can be plain and generic
Uniforms are stupid. Let kids be comfortable and wear what they want.
Oh yay… September Uniform Debate Society… #3425. It’s called SUDS because it rinse and repeat… Every single Summer
It’s all about money! It’s not like the uniform gives you +2 to learning in school ffs.
Question from foreigner.
Why are school uniforms a thing in Ireland and UK?
Another reason why uniforms should not be a thing fukin hell
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Should just do away with uniforms. They’re a load of bollocks.
I’ve been to loads of meetings about uniforms. Parents councils as a general rule don’t want generic uniforms and as a rule usually push the costs higher than the school envisaged.
People give out about the cost of uniforms but don’t bother to attend meetings that determine the uniforms.
Change the overpriced jumpers for pull over hoodies, the kids would prefer it and there far cheaper . The jumpers with the embroidered logo are the biggest cost.
Generic uniforms need to be a thing.
One of the private schools did a sports jumper and jeans 20 years ago. Although they charge 8k a year they had the most user friendly approach.
Hope we can move away from uniforms entirely, most of Europe doesn’t and had no issues.
Don’t most schools have a school tracksuit now?
Should have a country wide uniform if they must.
Make more sense for handing down and buying cheaply.
Isn’t education free? What happens to the child if they don’t have an uniform?
70 quid for a full uniform is not that bad.
What are these auld ones giving out about
My daughter goes to secondary this year, with all compulsory branded uniform (including coat!) and book rental fees it’s almost €700, not including her runners. It’s a bloody scam.
same thing every year regarding school costs, if you don’t have the money there is a uniform allowance to pay for it.
Also people need to consider false economies when buying cheap uniforms instead of the high quality one, they will end up buying more of the supermarket version then if they had bought the official one which will last the year.
Is there not enough uniforms in circulation to stop buying new ones altogether and for the past pupils ones to be repurposed? Or is this new uniform some sort of high tech yolk that’s absolutely essential to suit todays world or something?
Comfortable polo shirt, jumper and track bottoms, generic colours, available from numerous retailers. Worn 5 days a week.
I’m not incapable. It’s just bullshit. Reiterate your bullshit. Go ahead. Substantiate it while you’re down there.
Regatta navy coat in school shop.. €65
Identical coat in hardware store.. €40
Robbery.
Yet another benefit of no uniforms. We should make Educate Together available to more people.
Magically this is atopic on the Niall boylan show today 😂😂
Generic generic generic. Fuck any schools requiring branded shit. Looking at you de lá sál.
So we have a friend whose child started a new school a few years back. It was a brand new school and the child was starting in first year.
Before the school opened, the board of directors asked parents to give their opinion on uniforms and the response was overwhelmingly against. So, for school decided no uniforms.
That didn’t stop several uniform suppliers from hounding the school demanding they implement a uniform policy. They were pretty hardcore in their arguments saying stuff like without a uniform the students will misbehave and other crazy stuff. It got to the point where the chairman of the board of directors had to tell them to back off and that the school didn’t owe them a living.
Uniforms should be abolished, they are such a outdated concept
Send the kids to school in normal clothes, if enough parents do it the school can’t expel all the kids.
My primary school headmaster brought in new uniforms in 99/00 to replace the shirt and ties. It was essentially a generic navy tracksuit (£10) with a polo t-shirt (£3).
He did it to cut expenses for parents, but he sold it to us by saying the Olympics were coming up and he wanted to promote athletics. Those uniforms are still in use today except they’ve added a crest.
He was a great man.
Whatever about the uniforms, I’ve always wondered why the Dept. or even a group of like minded teachers never set about creating “open source/royalty free” pdf textbooks that could be distributed for free as PDF or indeed printed in bulk at low cost.
Such a fkn fix is the uniforms racket.
People like to argue that if there are no uniforms, kids will be bullied for not having nice clothes. But a recent study came out showing there “school uniforms were not linked to any differences in bullying or social anxiety in the children” ([source](https://news.osu.edu/school-uniforms-dont-improve-child-behavior-study-finds/)) and but students who wore uniforms felt *lower* levels of community and belonging.
So it’s a lot of money for no benefit. Girls uniforms can be especially expensive because schools just love having their own tartan skirts, whereas trousers can be plain and generic
Uniforms are stupid. Let kids be comfortable and wear what they want.
Oh yay… September Uniform Debate Society… #3425. It’s called SUDS because it rinse and repeat… Every single Summer
It’s all about money! It’s not like the uniform gives you +2 to learning in school ffs.
Question from foreigner.
Why are school uniforms a thing in Ireland and UK?
Another reason why uniforms should not be a thing fukin hell