British School Bans Expensive Coats So Poor Students Won't 'Feel Stigmatized'

Reason ^ | 11/16/18 | Joe Setyon

[metmom]

Let me guess. The *poor* are muslims.......

[Lazamataz]

Britain is f***ing insane.

[Chickensoup]

So, put everyone into uniform and have uniform coats, backpacks, shoes and school supplies.

[Vendome]

Get a job

[CondoleezzaProtege]

Uniforms are always a good idea.

And if a school has a large endowment I don’t understand why they can’t just provide uniforms and coats free of charge to students on scholarship?

[CondoleezzaProtege]

So, put everyone into uniform and have uniform coats, backpacks, shoes and school supplies.

Yes well put. My thoughts exactly.

[Monterrosa-24]

My neighbors drive cars that I cannot afford. But somehow I don’t give a flip about their cars. I have the coolest guns in the subdivision.

Are these prohibitions geared toward purposely raising snowflakes?

[irishjuggler]

You guys beat me to it. Yes, uniforms. It’s a simple, dignified, time-honored solution to the perennial problem of students’ attire getting in the way of learning.

[grimalkin]

Poverty shaming? What else are we going to invent?

[Truthoverpower]

Be a real man kids
Wear a nice Hawaiian shirt blue jeans and flip flops when it’s cold
Act like you don’t care
Chicks LOVE IT

[Secret Agent Man]

Will they make the attractivestudents ugly or wear masks?

Will they make the fit students wear fat suits?

This is 221st century “education”. Doing no one any favors at all.

[Scrambler Bob]

That’s why the school provides free sanitary products ... so they don’t pressure their parents to buy more expensive ones.

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OK.

Meanwhile, as I drove to work (after 30 years), I used to see 16-year olds driving newer and pricier cars than I drove.

I did not know that I should have claimed ‘poverty shaming’.

[TLI]

Good little socialists school kids, all equal...

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[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Mao jackets for everyone!

[LegendHasIt]

Well, then ban the Royals from wearing their hugely valuable Jewels and robes of State. Ban the Nobility and the elite from wearing their fancy designer clothes.
And those palaces, castles and estates... Tear them all down, or convert them to free boarding houses for the peasantry.

Those above mentioning uniforms...Good Idea, but not just for the school, kids. Make EVERYONE wear uniforms.

May I suggest something like this?:

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[LegendHasIt]

HA! You beat me to it.

[Tailback]

I’ll take the redhead in the front row for $500 Alex

[fini]

"Are these prohibitions geared toward purposely raising snowflakes?"

Concur with your opinion. When I was in high school some kids bragged about their clothes. I could not even begin to understand what they were bragging about. Bragging about grades- yes. Bragging about sports- yes. Bragging about clothes- huh? Later, an interesting thing occurred. Many years later I went to a high school reunion and I noticed that I was wearing better clothes than they were, not logos, but quality of cloth and cut.

I guess people want to find things that make them feel better about themselves.

[Manuel OKelley]

I didnt have a lot of stuff when i was a kid and part of the time i was on a partial scholarship to a good private school with a bunch kids from wealthy families

Some of them were shitheads but it motivated me and i get the last laugh now when i know ive done better than 99% of them and am far from finished