Opinions on school uniforms

Posted: Sun, Feb 01 2009, 7:55 pm Post subject: re: opinions on school uniforms

I think my kids have a great uniform because all you have to buy is the shirt, which is a light blue polo shirt with the school logo. They could even get away with just wearing any light blue shirt because the school isn't so strict.

Posted: Sun, Feb 01 2009, 7:57 pm Post subject:

I will agree to a dress code micki.

also. many responses are for high school uniforms-which I have accepted. elementary grades I still do not want.

As for hand me down uniforms, it would take a number of years before there were enuf for the need.

Tell u what, I will support u in your quest for uniforms in 6 years. thats when dd the youngest will be on her way to HS!!
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I hope my kids school will get uniforms (It is a new school that is just starting elementary next year so it is till up in the air).

Posted: Sun, Feb 01 2009, 8:23 pm Post subject:

I love the uniform idea! It looks so neat and not a hassle what to wear every day, leave alone the competition dressing too.
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When dd was in school they got the uniforms from the school. In grade school it was the ok school shirt with any navy A line skirt of the type that all of the stores in Y-m and BB sell as "school skirt", very cheap..

In HS when you came to fill out the forms the secretary took her to the room where the uniforms where. She fitted her for 2 and I only had to write the check. Every year there was also a sale. Mothers of girls who had graduated, left or grown came to buy and sell among themselves. My dd was between sizes in 9th grade. They would not give her the smaller size because it really was too tight. The larger size was too big, so I paid, said thank you and stopped off with dd to have it taken in on the way home.
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Posted: Tue, Mar 24 2009, 10:24 pm Post subject:

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When my dd's school climbed on the uniform bandwagon, I was most upset, because dd had lots of secondhand clothes that she would now never wear, and I would have to bear the expense of buying her an entire new school wardrobe. The uniforms cost much more than anything I would have bought even if I hadn't had the hand-me-downs.

The first year it was hard, but after that it became much easier. For one thing, I discovered that I could get the same thing less from a source other than the one the school used. For another, I didn't have to buy all new clothes the next year, just new blouses. From there on it was actually cheaper to have uniforms because we could get by with fewer items. If she wore the same jumper three times in one week, who knew the difference?

By limiting the options, uniforms make dressing a cinch, which also makes life much easier all around.