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It’s surprisingly bad here in the UK as well. At one of the local schools here any uniform violation means isolation. They take your phone away and you are kept
by uncledave 6y ago
It’s surprisingly bad here in the UK as well. At one of the local schools here any uniform violation means isolation. They take your phone away and you are kept on your own in a room until the end of the day and visited by teachers only to issue work.
The student this happened to, my daughter, caused this to be triggered by dying her hair a lighter shade of brown than her normal colour.
I found out about this when she arrived home without her phone because the teacher had left it locked in her desk.
She was moved to a not insane school immediately and complaints raised with the school and the phone was collected by me the next day. Of course all record of all events magically disappeared.
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- Symbiote 6y agoI'm sure this has become worse. It seems to have happened with the change in many places to "academy" schools, where appearance reigns and they're run like businesses. In the 1990s-2000s, when my parents were both teachers and I was at school, "uniform" meant wearing the correct colours (e.g. dark trousers or skirt, white shirt/t-shirt, blue jumper/sweater). It was still ridiculous, but being punished for it would require repeatedly breaking those rules. The usual response was the teacher saying "tuck your shirt in, William".
- uncledave 6y agoThat’s a good observation. That was an academy school.
- ogogmad 6y agoIs the point of school uniform to squash individuality? Is this how we want to prepare children for adulthood? I doubt that conformity, submission to arbitrary rules out of fear, and not standing out are good things to teach children, at least if you don't want them to become a bunch of zombies as adults. Also, given the choice, who wants the sort of job that mandates a uniform?
- h_anna_h 6y agoA lot of people decide to become pilots or work for the army.
- elric 6y agoUniforms are a big thing in the UK. Many jobs require them, even places where it seems entirely irrelevant. Hell, many non-customer facing office workers get a very strict dress code (black shoes, black trews, x/y/z colour shirt). I never understood why that was a thing.
- jelliclesfarm 6y agoI wore school uniforms for 12 years in school. I don’t consider myself a conformist.
- heavyset_go 6y agoArguably, this is the point of school, even if I disagree with it.
- Noumenon72 6y agoI regarded a uniform as one of the reasons to choose a factory job over an office job, since I would not have to make any clothes purchasing decisions or wear out my own stuff. Remote work is even better -- I got to have my cake and eat it too.
- cbozeman 6y agoThe point of modern Western education was to create factory and low-level office workers.
- Symbiote 6y agoA more recent justification was to remove the chance for rich children to "look different" to poor children -- everyone is equal by wearing the same. Of course, it doesn't work that way -- the poor children have second-hand clothes or the cheapest clothes from Asda, and the rich children will spend money on whatever they can -- fancy shoes etc.