Banned for $15 pants
Published 1 year, 5 months ago in Making News.She said she had been offering the Palmers free school-issue pants for the past month, but the family had “rejected them on principle”.
Says it all really……
1. Some think the only way to explain their problems is in the desperate search for others to blame.
2. Some think that they can benefit from community resources while refusing to support community values.
Here’s hoping that the state supports the right of school communities to set ANY requirements on student dress or behaviour that they see fit.
The future for state education lies in removing the straitjacket of government micro-management and allowing schools to run in ways that their local community actually want.
If Karla and her mother don’t like the community rules, then they should find another school community.
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Yes but the school is rorting the situation.
Why not by the track pants privately for $40 less, and sell the school logo for say $5. Sounds fair. No the school want to maximise their fund raising. In this case, i support the parents.
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$55 is horribly expensive. I have never, ever spent anything like $55 on pants or a skirt, no matter how dressy. If schools expect students to wear a uniform, they should make it affordable - I mean, imagine families with three kids at the school… two pairs of pants for each kid = $330 all up. And that’s without taking into account the rate that high school kids outgrow or wear out their clothes.
Unless the school is willing to offer EVERY student a free pair of school issue pants, then the family has every right to reject them on principle. Government schools are supposed to be a free (or at least not horribly expensive) education.
The Shadowmaster’s idea is also awesome. The kids could sew the logo onto their pants in textiles class. Learning and saving money!
i was happy to spend sixpence as a kid on any thing but boy am i old kids uniforms are expensive at any time sad day burn your $15 dollars pants for the kavin cliene ones mate
1. The school uniform shop is there to provide a school uniform and to make a profit and if it is not supported by the school then it will not make that profit. So therefore the school will reject every other alternatives offered even it were to save money… personally I would by a second hand pair of pants and transplant the badge. Shirt pockets can be transplanted onto another shirt. Think laterally and save!
My high school was the same. My older brother once lost his school jumper (navy with a v neck and a white stripe on the sleeve) so bought a cheap navy v neck jumper and wore it to school. He was given an official warning slip to take home to his parents.
My father, bless his ire, sent Alan back to school with a note saying: “Alan could not afford a new school jumper and made every effort to fit in with the uniform code. School uniforms are not mandatory in Queensland schools and my son can turn up in a pink tutu if he so desires.”
The principal’s office never hassled my brother - or me - about uniforms again.
What purpose does a school uniform fulfil. Does uniform clothing lead to uniform thinking, in which case whither originality. Isn’t the role of schools to teach and not to enforce archaic dress codes ? Apart from the money wasted on clothes used only for school, what of the time and energy spent by teachers and administrators enforcing the rules. Have they nothing better to do ?
As adults we are expected to dress reasonably for particular occasions; except for certain professions, we don’t wear uniform. Why shouldn’t the same apply to schoolchildren ?
In theory the main reason for uniforms in State schools is to stop the wealthier kids going to school in expensive designer clothes and the poorer kids being made to feel inferior. The problem is, as stated by others, the schools and the shops stack on the profits so that in many cases the uniform is probably dearer than the designer stuff. The whole problem is that the state and Fed. Govt’s don’t spend enough money on education, full stop!