Will Replacing School Uniforms With Tracksuits......

nanna8
That’s good, but here we’re going for the “mass” effect.
Unless the government make it compulsory, some schools will stay looking smart, others will insist on smart looking track suit uniform and the rest will accept whatever the children turn up in.

With a uniform, some parents/children make an effort to look well presented, and will continue to do so even in a tracksuit, and equally, others will push the system to see how ratty they can look and get away with it.

Define permissible tracksuit.
Hoodie or not hoodie?
Jogging bottoms or cuffed ankles?
Zip front or sweater type?
Summer? What are they going to wear in summer when it’s hot?
Winter? Who wears a coat over a tracksuit?
Just a few questions.

Here it is the opposite. State schools and private schools have their own uniforms and badges and are proud of their affiliation with their particular school. Interschool sports help as well. Friendly rivalry. Even the ‘ disadvantaged’ schools have uniforms and parents can buy items cheaply at the supermarket ( shoes, shirts, trousers etc ) The private schools tend to have blazers as well, not so much the state schools who have windcheaters but they are common across both, too. In the final year they have all their classmates names on the back , end of primary and end of secondary. Something to look back on with pride.

Just the next steps in dumping down to me. Been waiting for this to happen.

Presumably the track suit type wear will be branded by the usual suspects
And also have the usual over priced school logo badges.
And more importantly only available from designated massively overpriced school uniform shops.

MartavTaurus

Forgive me if this thread tackles a different idea, but you already started a 10 page discussion on this subject in February
mae13??

Well spotted. Very vigilant

Just to let you know. may . You receive a email from certain vested interested parties about pointing this out.

I am not saying whose these parties are. But it is to do with getting as many posts as possible.

I wonder if the very short skirt brigade will fancy changing to track suit bottoms. It would certainly be warmer in the winter for them.

I worked for a while supporting young people at a secondary school in quite a deprived area, uniform was a very thorny issue. I could work with a poor attender (with very difficult home life) for weeks to get them back into school only to be met by a member of staff barking ‘where is your tie?’ threatening to send them straight back home again! I used my own money to buy 1/2 dozen ties and would stand outside the building trying to ensure no one got sent home for this infringement.
I can understand that some like to dress up for events, I know it’s massively important for most young people, but it’s not for everyone and I think it’s a mistake to judge people for this.

I've always thought that children look better in casual clothes than formal wear especially by the end of the school day, not necessarily tracksuits but certainly not shirts and ties.

I think track suits as school uniform are a great step forward, although I don’t think hoods would be a good idea. Much cheaper for a start, and to see schoolchildren wearing ties, usually very badly, just seems daft. Track suits are far less likely to be tweaked. The only thing wrong with this idea is what about when it’s too hot for track suit bottoms? Tee shirts on top I’d easy, but not all kids will want to wear shorts.

Wish there had been track suits when I was at school especially winter time. For younger pupils it’s a good idea.

Shanksy

I remember my first school I taught at where the children all wore tracksuits and trainers the rich kids wore designer uniform and the poor kids didn’t and unfortunately the poor kids were picked on because of the clothes they wore.

DGS said exactly the same. He said his
cheap tracksuit didn’t look as good as the more expensive ones and they don’t last as well through washing and wearing because they fade and bag.
On the other hand he said it was a good idea because he didn’t have to change when he got home.

I think it might be a good idea, I remember one of my male teachers in high school used to walk up and down the aisles looking at the girls legs, and from what I see today the girls skirts are even shorter, I’m not saying that gives seedy males the right to ogle them, but I can imagine the young boys if one of the girls had to bend down to pick something up off the floor.
So joggers maybe a little more discreet, not as smart I know but safer and safety would always come above being smart to me
And nobody can say the young girls with their skirts almost showing their underwear looks smart.

On starting school a lot can't can't use a toilet, still wearing nappies, can't use cutlery, can't tie laces so now it will be can't dress themselves. If course they can look up how to do those tasks but will they be able or bothered to comprehend what is being said. Suppise okay if they get jobs where gym/sports wear and flip flops are the dress code. Where I live the secondary pupils are like rag bags as it is, what will they look like in crumpled track suits and tee/polo shirts.

I have seen so much change in peoples habits etc the main one is that people have lost all respect for their appearance and most look as if they have just come from a building site even going to restaurants in old jeans or shorts and T shirts .I come from a time when i would wear a suit and tie when i went out for respect of the girl i would be with .so encouraging children to to go on that downhill stretch is another nail in the coffin for respect not for themselves but others

I remember my first school I taught at where the children all wore tracksuits and trainers the rich kids wore designer uniform and the poor kids didn’t and unfortunately the poor kids were picked on because of the clothes they wore.

School uniforms fulfill one purpose: everyone is dressed alike, so no child is a walking demonstration of the fact that his or her parents are poorer than the parents of others in the class.

However, at private schools uniforms are expensive, so changing to something that can be bought cheaply makes sense.

All school uniforms are hideous in the children's eyes - only grown-ups ever thought them nice, so it honestly does not matter if children wear track suits to school. They will still hate their uniform.

School uniforms were never a fashion statement - they were only every changed once in about twenty years.

When I was over 60, I saw London schoolgirls wearing the exact same summer uniform as I had worn when I was seven!

If this takes away young ladies wearing their school skirts so short I would agree with the change.
Maybe I sm old-fashioned but I have to turn my head when noticing some skirts practically up to the edge of their knickers

At my grandchildren's school they have to go in wearing either leggings or tracksuit bottoms two days a week for PE. This saves the time and effort spent changing clothes and gives more time for the actual PE lesson. Also I'm guessing it results in fewer clothes lost!
Most primary schools already have a sweatshirt type of top today, rather than a jumper and shirt, so it's really the same as a track suit top anyway.
I'm guessing that they'll still wear thinner clothes in the summer, ours wear polo shirts or summer dresses.

It’s even more of Americanising our society and I hate it.

Never seen the point of school uniform - it really doesn’t hide the discrepancies between rich and poor. It discourages individuality (though generally children in countries where they don’t have uniforms tend to wear their ‘tribe’s’ clothes) and allegedly makes it easier to control children. My view is no uniform, but if you must, then tracksuits seem a good compromise.

It's dumbing down. Can things get any worse?.

As a retired teacher who had no end of issues with students and their methods of changing their uniforms , track suits, polo shirts are a great idea! Not a lot to customise there !!

Most academies and secondary schools have a specialism, so if the school was a sports academy would so many grans feel as disgusted?
I see no need for the comments about “scruffy tracksuits”. Good quality, well made uniform tracksuits can be very smart as our Olympian athletes have shown.
The somewhat old-fashioned obsession with ties and blazers is bound to set schools on a collision course with parents and students. There are other ways of being smart.

Watching schoolgirls where I live they seem to wear thick black tights all year with uniform. Out of uniform it is another story.

The rolling skirts over to shorten them came too late for me. We used to turn our blazer and shirt sleeves up andleeave the blazer unfastened

M0nica

Caleo Most short skirts are worn over very thick tights or leggings, it is often difficult to know which. The skirt is over such thick underpinnings it isn't really necessary for modesties sake.

That might be true in winter, or when it’s chilly, or for some who wear those as a fashion statement, but in town today, Thé skirts were short with bare legs.

Short skirts, or regular skirts rolled over at the top were de rigueur for teen rebellion , when I was younger.
Then we wore maxi skirts and that was wrong too.

Caleo Most short skirts are worn over very thick tights or leggings, it is often difficult to know which. The skirt is over such thick underpinnings it isn't really necessary for modesties sake.