Posted: Mar 02, 2010 12:56 pm
Agrippina wrote:That's all it is, schools use uniforms (here anyway) because it's easier to control the ways kids dress that way and because otherwise you have a lot of drama with kids who can't afford the latest sneakers or designer clothes. I hate uniforms as much as the next person but I can understand why our schools still enforce them.
I don't buy this one bit. We still knew who the rich and poor kids were at our school. There was still massive pressure to wear branded shoes (those shoe tags were the big accessory when I was in school), have branded bags, and you still need football boots and trainers for sports. Maybe it'd be worse if there was constant pressure for kids to have an entire wardrobe of nice clothes (then again, if they didn't have to fork out for new uniforms every year, maybe they could afford them). But I think you can blame our pathetic emphasis on consumerism and class for the fact that kids are judged on what clothing they can afford.