Why Are Schools Doing This?

[renegadefm]

Just had my partners daughter ring her in tears because her daughter, partners granddaughter was susspended from wearing the wrong type of trousers. This I should add is secondary school. 

This is just messing with the child's mental health. Besides the trousers she had on we're trousers of the right colour, and not leggings as the school was suggesting they are. 

 

This isn't the first time I have heard of issues like this at secondary schools around here. One particular indecent was where the child was given detention for wearing the wrong brand of trainers, apparently it should have been shoes. 

 

It beggers believe why are schools doing this to our children. No wonder they are growing up bitter and twisted or are suffering mental health issues. 

 

Surely they are there to learn and get an education, it shouldn't matter what they wear. 

 

 

[New Judge]

If I transgressed my school’s uniform policy I was told about and told to get it put right. It was my parents’ responsibility to ensure I had the right kit and mine to make sure I wore it. My school had neither the time nor the inclination to mess about contacting my parents. The responsibility to comply was mine.

“It beggers believe why are schools doing this to our children.”

There are many and various reasons for school uniform rules – most of them explained on here. That’s why the school is doing it.

“No wonder they are growing up bitter and twisted or are suffering mental health issues.”

They are bitter and twisted because they have been led to believe, often by their parents, that they can always have their own way. Any so-called “mental health issues” that follow arise from the disappointment they suffer when it finally sinks in that they cannot.

The earlier they learn that lesson, the less likely they are to suffer either of those conditions. I never laboured under that misapprehension myself and so I suffered no "mental health problems" from occasionally being disciplined for non-compliance. It was called "growing up".
 

[dave50]

Play the mental health card as usual. 

[douglas9401]

I suppose if the schools are churning out streams of Einsteins and Curies then fair enough but if uniform is their peak achievement then things may need reassessing.