Post AsbG2YFj93pffTdYTw by sumisu3@mastodon.nz
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(DIR) Post #AsbFltKzUzFi8f9flo by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-03-31T02:37:07Z
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If schools insist on hanging on to the archaic 20th century habit of making students wear uniforms, maybe they should supply them? Parents could pay a bond at the start of the school year. So when students return their uniform items at the end of it, parents would only have to pay for items that got lost or damaged.#SchoolUniforms
(DIR) Post #AsbG2YFj93pffTdYTw by sumisu3@mastodon.nz
2025-03-31T02:40:03Z
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@strypey uniforms are damn pricey and only single source. Someone is making some coin on this. That said, my kids do say it is far easier to just wear a uniform than think about what regular clothes to wear every day. But, the claim that uniforms are a leveler such that less well off kids aren’t ridiculed for their clothes compared to peers is BS - everyone at school knows who is wearing second hand, well aged uniforms.
(DIR) Post #AsdSHHNxj70rSuCLBY by dragonfrog@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-03-31T02:50:45Z
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@sumisu3 @strypey my only experience of school uniforms was one year in England when I was a kid. The only part where we had to buy the specific item from the specific seller was the tie with stripes in the school colours. The rest was just, white buttoned shirt, navy shorts / slacks / skirt, grey or black socks, black shoes. Basically any department store had acceptable ones.
(DIR) Post #AsdSHIAWoXrRtWv7su by sumisu3@mastodon.nz
2025-03-31T03:04:41Z
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@dragonfrog @strypey at all my kids’ schools here in NZ it is all a logo shirt/blouse that is only available from one predetermined shop. Slacks and skorts we’ve been able to buy elsewhere now in college/high school. Before they also had to purchase logo’d shorts. And in Primary also a logo’d sun hat.
(DIR) Post #AsdSHIs8CQju4lJwqe by dragonfrog@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-03-31T05:15:30Z
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@sumisu3 @strypey wow I can see how that could be much more of a financial burden.
(DIR) Post #AsdSHJXFjXdI8IYmwa by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2025-04-01T04:06:33Z
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@dragonfrog > I can see how that could be much more of a financial burdenIt depends on the school and how fussy they are. Admittedly this is going back a few decades now. But at the primary and high schools I went to, every single thing we wore had to be the official uniform item. Right down to jackets and hats. We had a big family and these uniforms costs my parents a fortune.@sumisu3