School shoes

What the heck is this thread all about? I really don't get the OP. "Should I tell my daughter to get new leather shoes...?" For heaven's sake, why would you feel the need to come on GN asking a question like that? How do you manage to get through your day if you are unable to make simple decisions without going on a forum?
It is obviously a wind-up or, as someone suggested upthread, a bored teenager thinking grans are a bunch of mindless dribbling twits. I hope that by now they've been totally disabused of this idea

I think that this child is 11 - hence year 7, going to year 8, and Gran11.

You are probably quite bright, having fun, but dont have that many friends.
School is finished soon. I think that you need to get into clubs that spark your interest. Where you hopefully will be able to make some friends. It is better than spending too much time indoors on a computer.

I have said to her this morning the plimsolls are good idea 2 grandsons want them and they are cheap
I was just wondering if people seen them as acceptable in other areas because they are in most schools in my area

I think it's time to give up now. Seriously. You have been rumbled. Deal with it.

What

Do we say 'welcome back' perhaps Ashtree?

Yes, we have long memories

Absolutely Anya. Not the feeble, short-memoried idiots this 11 year old thinks we are. (Note gran11 - your username is a bit of a giveaway).

The poster could be gran to 11 children.

Good thinking Sherlock.

or else couldnt get passed the first number button

Or could be using the binary system.

Gran11, will you tell me how to get a picture up on here. No one else will.

Gran 11. try and learn to punctuate.

When I (and DC were at school) wearing plimsolls, other than in games lessons, was a sign of poverty. I wonder if this attitude to canvas shoes still hangs around some grandparents, which is why they are not comfortable seeing DGC in this type of shoe.

This is a bit like theft in a multi storey car park ......... wrong on so many levels!

We may have long memories, but some people don't profit from their memories and leave well alone.

My grandson 11 wears similar style plimsolls to those but think he wears primark ones not certain though could be the sane ones

Haven't we been here before????

We are going to have this back again this summer. Year 6 have obviously finished their SATs.

I am surprised a teenager wants to have fun with grannies.
His own granny must be so proud.

Well Gran11 won't have done that well can't tell the diffference between "to" and "too", can't punctuate, and doesn't know past tense of the verb "to see"
Not just uniform this school needs to tighten up on!

What is this connection between blinkin' plimsolls and bored teenagers? Gran11's SATS English results might make interesting reading

Could at least have chosen something anything vaguely interesting.....

But I do think we cant always assume that someone who posts on gransnet has english as their first language.
If I were to go on a french website and talk about plimsolls, I would struggle

Most people who have English as a second language are far more careful about grammar than many English speakers!

True....but gran Kids?

It's clearly a wind-up - some people get a thrill (yes, that sort....) writing about footwear and getting other people to write about footwear.

As ever......DFTT.

(don't feed the troll).