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

If everyone is wearing the same clothes, whether tracksuits or matching clown suits, they are wearing a uniform.

It is time that uniforms were chosen for their practicality and usefulness, and if that means tracksuits, tracksuits it should be.

Children are far more likely to wear properly, uniforms that are practical and comfortable to wear. I can remember from my own school days and living near a secondary school when my children were young the many and various ways that unifom was manipulated in order to show our dislike of our uniform.

This obsession with uniform and how it was being worn, if my own childhood memories are correct, is limited to little old ladies like us and ex military types.

Casdon

Is uniform policy anything to do with the government, I thought it was local authorities and schools that decided on uniform policy? Sounds like a Daily Telegraph let’s whip up the gullible populace story to me.

Is school policy on anything the government’s responsibility?
Or is that only when it will make a distracting headline?
Both banning phones and changing uniforms have been claimed to be making a contribution to children’s welfare.
Seems odd that one is acceptable and the other is not.
Just to help you out,
Your school's governing body decides the uniform policy. There's government guidance called Developing School Uniform Policy that gives advice on this topic.

This has been on here before I remember commenting on it
Why another ???
Yes Martav you found it
Why are you obsessed with the subject Mae13

Is uniform policy anything to do with the government, I thought it was local authorities and schools that decided on uniform policy? Sounds like a Daily Telegraph let’s whip up the gullible populace story to me.

Swapping one type of uniform for another ? Wow! What a news story . . .
So those who already complain that blazers are too hot over a school jumper will now complain that they are too hot over a hoodie or too cold if school jumpers are dropped too.
Track suits can look smart. Look at the athletes marching on at the Olympics. They need more effort to keep them looking smart, especially the cheap ones, and how many people actually iron any more.

Will they be allowed to specify tracksuits without hoods?
Otherwise the next government action after the phone ban will be to give schools permission to ban hoods up in school. Difficult when they allow head coverings for girls from other cultures. Imagine teaching a mass of hooded teens?
Although it could be good for neurodivergent children. My DGS would have even worn his hood up in our house if we’d let him.

I think school tracksuits are a good idea for the younger years, Reception up to
and including Yr2.

They spend a good amount of time on the floor, tracksuits are easy for going to
the bathroom also.

At the primary school next door to me, they wear PE uniforms two days a week. This comprises of shorts, t shirts, sweatshirt and joggers when cold. All items have to purchased from uniform shop.

They still look smart and identifiable to that school.

I thought it felt like deja vu! I wondered if I'd seen it on Mumsnet before I saw the light and came over to Gransnet 😉.

Here
www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.gransnet.com/forums/chat/a1355893-Tracksuits-To-Become-Standard-School-Uniform&ved=2ahUKEwilzsH6mv6TAxUbUEEAHfckGqUQFnoECCEQAQ&usg=AOvVaw15uD237758I4-2Rjo6jWeJ

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

What is happening to our country? Fashion has gone out of the window. Tracksuits, jogging pants, leggings, over-sized jeans, elastic waistbands, trainers, sliders, I realise this is for comfort, but if you wear anything other than leisure wear nowadays you feel overdressed.

Me and my hubby love to get dressed up for a meal out, me a dress with court shoes, him chinos, shirt, blazer and brogues, but it makes you feel like you're going to a wedding when you see how others are dressed! We still do it though, leisure wear isn't our thing, unless we're lounging at home or gardening.

School children in tracksuits would look scruffy and slovenly. Who on earth came up with that idea? Tracksuits are for PE, not sitting in the classroom learning. Children need to learn that appearances count for a lot in the world of work, high school is one step closer to going forth into the big wide world to earn a living. Standards have dropped low enough in this country, in more ways than one, let's try to claw back some pride in our appearance, a school full of tracksuit clad youngsters would look like a ghetto - please no 😱.

Revolting idea. Imagine a world full of youths in trackie daks. Why don’t they issue balaclavas as well ?