{"id":643491,"date":"2026-08-18T11:57:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T11:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/643491\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T11:57:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T11:57:19","slug":"do-you-think-schools-should-get-rid-of-uniforms-%c2%b7-thejournal-ie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/643491\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you think schools should get rid of uniforms? \u00b7 TheJournal.ie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IN HER LATEST Voices piece, our parenting columnist Niamh O\u2019Reilly says that she\u2019s glad she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejournal.ie\/readme\/parenting-and-back-to-school-7130467-Aug2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">doesn\u2019t have to sort out uniforms for her children this back-to-school season.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing free from the itchy, expensive, constricting set of identical clothing five days a week has been a revelation \u2013 and I wish it\u2019s one more schools would cotton to,\u201d she writes.<\/p>\n<p>Many parents and schools argue that uniforms are the more convenient option, can improve behaviour and create a sense of equality by reducing visible economic differences. However, O\u2019Reilly says she\u2019s still not convinced that they\u2019re worth it.<\/p>\n<p>So, we want to know what you think.<\/p>\n<p>Tell us: <strong>Should schools get rid of uniforms?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n  Poll Results:<\/p>\n<p>The option should still be there, but they shouldn&#8217;t be mandatory (169)<\/p>\n<p>Not sure \/ No opinion (46)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IN HER LATEST Voices piece, our parenting columnist Niamh O\u2019Reilly says that she\u2019s glad she doesn\u2019t have to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[73],"tags":[12003,79,2597,18,19,17,272227],"class_list":["post-643491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-back-to-school","tag-business","tag-education","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-niamh-o"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}