£470 is all that’s left. That’s to, somehow, cover a whole month of: Food shops, phone bills, clothing & uniforms, school supplies, school trips, pension, savings, petrol, car maintenance & insurance, credit card bills, home insurance, life insurance, and small emergencies that happen through the week. £25K used to be a half-decent salary but its no longer enough.
No budgeting can make this work. No amount of cutting down on the avocados or Netflix can make this work. We need drastic action and wage increases
Thy should ban schools forcing parents to buy from specific sellers. If the requirement is a navy coloured jumper with long sleeves and a high collar, then any navy coloured jumper with long sleeves and a high collar should be fine not just ones purchased from a seller that overcharges and gives a kickback to the school.
There really should be legislation put in place to stop schools demanding specific branded clothing.
A uniform policy of simple black trousers/skirt and blazer is fine. Even an iron on badge isn’t too bad.
But making them pay huge amounts for branded stuff only available from a single shop at inflated rates is ridiculous.
Why not get uniforms from charity or even a better idea; use USA style plain or freedom clothes?
Of course people are – after 12 years of the Tories in charge, cutting services and spending, stagnating wages, whilst the cost of everything, especially essentials, have gone up and up and up.
The media will, as always, try to individualise this issue (see all the articles about cutting back on energy use for example).
However, this tactic seems to finally be running out – look at the support for strikes for example.
The UK is in need of increasingly drastic structural change, we are becoming an increasingly unequal and non functional country.
Schools should have a basic uniform and just sell sew-on/iron-on patches with the school logo for £3 or something like that instead. My primary school only required the book bag, with any red/grey jumper and red tie considered acceptable. My seocndary school only required the school tie and jumper, however a navy jumper with the school badge could easily have worked too. It is not perfect but it should not have to be.
One thing that really frustrated me when I was teaching was the number of senior leaders and academy heads that could not see the woods from the trees when it came to things like uniform. Yes, having standards can be important and should be enforced, but not to the degree that a child’s education suffers because they are punished for being unable to afford it.
I think it this time of crisis, any school that actually cared about the kids and parents would drop school uniforms altogether.
There is the campaign asking people not to pay their bills, but how about parents all agreeing not to send their kids to school in uniforms? What would the schools do, send every kid home?
I’ve never understood this fascination with school uniforms. Why not just let them wear their regular clothes? What’s (nowadays) the point of uniforms in the first place?
Not having kids is looking like one of the best decisions I ever made at this point, this is awful
We need teachers in Australia and pay better. Come here!
School uniforms should be eliminated or just provided by the school that insists on their use
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Yeah. No shit. Here’s how a £25K salary breaks down:
* Post-tax income: £20,800 – £1740 /Month
* Rent: £800 – £940 remaining
* Council Tax: £100 – £840 remaining
* Water: £40 – £800 remaining
* Energy (electricity & gas): £300 (from Oct.) – £500 remaining
* Internet: £30 – £470 remaining
£470 is all that’s left. That’s to, somehow, cover a whole month of: Food shops, phone bills, clothing & uniforms, school supplies, school trips, pension, savings, petrol, car maintenance & insurance, credit card bills, home insurance, life insurance, and small emergencies that happen through the week. £25K used to be a half-decent salary but its no longer enough.
No budgeting can make this work. No amount of cutting down on the avocados or Netflix can make this work. We need drastic action and wage increases
Thy should ban schools forcing parents to buy from specific sellers. If the requirement is a navy coloured jumper with long sleeves and a high collar, then any navy coloured jumper with long sleeves and a high collar should be fine not just ones purchased from a seller that overcharges and gives a kickback to the school.
There really should be legislation put in place to stop schools demanding specific branded clothing.
A uniform policy of simple black trousers/skirt and blazer is fine. Even an iron on badge isn’t too bad.
But making them pay huge amounts for branded stuff only available from a single shop at inflated rates is ridiculous.
Why not get uniforms from charity or even a better idea; use USA style plain or freedom clothes?
Of course people are – after 12 years of the Tories in charge, cutting services and spending, stagnating wages, whilst the cost of everything, especially essentials, have gone up and up and up.
The media will, as always, try to individualise this issue (see all the articles about cutting back on energy use for example).
However, this tactic seems to finally be running out – look at the support for strikes for example.
The UK is in need of increasingly drastic structural change, we are becoming an increasingly unequal and non functional country.
Schools should have a basic uniform and just sell sew-on/iron-on patches with the school logo for £3 or something like that instead. My primary school only required the book bag, with any red/grey jumper and red tie considered acceptable. My seocndary school only required the school tie and jumper, however a navy jumper with the school badge could easily have worked too. It is not perfect but it should not have to be.
One thing that really frustrated me when I was teaching was the number of senior leaders and academy heads that could not see the woods from the trees when it came to things like uniform. Yes, having standards can be important and should be enforced, but not to the degree that a child’s education suffers because they are punished for being unable to afford it.
I think it this time of crisis, any school that actually cared about the kids and parents would drop school uniforms altogether.
There is the campaign asking people not to pay their bills, but how about parents all agreeing not to send their kids to school in uniforms? What would the schools do, send every kid home?
I’ve never understood this fascination with school uniforms. Why not just let them wear their regular clothes? What’s (nowadays) the point of uniforms in the first place?
Not having kids is looking like one of the best decisions I ever made at this point, this is awful
We need teachers in Australia and pay better. Come here!
School uniforms should be eliminated or just provided by the school that insists on their use