School fees!

[MaryPoppins]

Fine if it's witty, but the sas/OH dialogue is just dull.

Yup. They just need to get a room.

[DodgyAgent]

It really doesn't equalise rich and poor though, does it? Kids are pretty observant of Ron Weasley types in 4th-hand blazers. We had a strict uniform but it was still plain who was rich and who wasn't.

School identity can be argued as a good and bad thing in my view.

They are children, so your liberal ideals do not apply. Children need to feel a sense of belonging as do all human beings. They need to feel included. Creating divisions and barriers according to what they wear is highly divisive.

[sasguru]

Yup. They just need to get a room.

Apologies. I will just ignore the humourless pedant with anger-management issues from now on.

[MaryPoppins]

Apologies. I will just ignore the humourless pedant with anger-management issues from now on.

I'd suggest that'd make you the bigger man, yup. Betcha can't help rising to it though

[sasguru]

Betcha can't help rising to it though

You're on.

[MaryPoppins]

You're on.

Ok. I'm watching you.

[d000hg]

They are children, so your liberal ideals do not apply. Children need to feel a sense of belonging as do all human beings. They need to feel included.

I'm a liberal now am I, I thought I was a leftie?

You do realise that having been to school several decades more recently than you, I can remember what it was like rather than have to theorise about it?

Creating divisions and barriers according to what they wear is highly divisive.

Like having different schools in a town each with distinctively different uniforms, you mean? I suppose it is perfect way to educate children to hate people they have never met based on what colour shirt they wear. It works perfectly for football fans in Liverpool and Glasgow after all.

Muppet. Heard of the Hitler Youth?

[eek]

Yup. They just need to get a room.

At the Travelodge, Bridgwater?

[DodgyAgent]

I didn't say he did wear a uniform, he does. Parts of it are optional and certainly not as strict as other schools.

But does it (the uniform) have a positive effect on their achievement or is it just some type of social experiment?

I am sure you can look it up for yourself. I take it you do not have children. As for whether it works I do not know, but as a parent I support the logic behind it.

[MaryPoppins]

I am sure you can look it up for yourself. I take it you do not have children. As for whether it works I do not know, but as a parent I support the logic behind it.

It's not just CVs you can't read properly then.