School fees!

[northernladuk]

The only person I know in my demographic who went into teaching and has a crap (ish) degree is my wife The other dozen young/trainee teachers I know are all bright and did well in their degrees. But then the people I know all went to a decent university in the first place so are perhaps not that typical.

You also forget the entire category of people who do education degrees, rather than doing teacher training as a masters or post-grad course.

You need a BEd or a PGCE which are one year courses after the degree to qualify as a teacher. I didn't think you could become a QT without either of them.

[d000hg]

If you do certain education degrees it incorporates all that stuff - teaching placements, etc - and leads to QT. It is not the most common pathway, only for those who know they definitely want to be teachers before even leaving school.

[DodgyAgent]

Eeek! I feel so lucky my lad's school is so flexible with what he can wear. I remember when he was the only kid with white pumps and extra long black shorts for PE. His raincoat was a bright multi colour job which compared with other kids wearing the usual boring blue or black.

There are very good reasons for kids to wear school uniforms.

[eek]

There are very good reasons for kids to wear school uniforms.

It allows children from other schools to choose whom to attack without thinking.....

[Mich the Tester]

There are very good reasons for kids to wear school uniforms.

What are the very good reasons?

[sasguru]

What are the very good reasons?

Equalises rich and poor, creates a sense of identity (and pride in the better schools) are 2 off the top of my head.

[DodgyAgent]

What are the very good reasons?

One of them is to remove an escalation of what kids wear in relation to developing peer pressure to wear the latest and most expensive clothes. Poor kids look the same as rich kids. parents are not under constant pressure to buy their kids what everyone else is wearing.

[d000hg]

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.

[aussielong]

One of them is to remove an escalation of what kids wear in relation to developing peer pressure to wear the latest and most expensive clothes. Poor kids look the same as rich kids. parents are not under constant pressure to buy their kids what everyone else is wearing.

In the 80s the poorest kids in my school often had the best gear. They'd come in with Nike air trainers, tacchini track suit tops. Adidas bags. Nobody else had that expensive stuff. They were stealing it of course.

[lilelvis2000]

One of them is to remove an escalation of what kids wear in relation to developing peer pressure to wear the latest and most expensive clothes. Poor kids look the same as rich kids. parents are not under constant pressure to buy their kids what everyone else is wearing.

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?