Posted on 11/18/2018 6:25:32 AM PST by bgill
A HIGH SCHOOL IN England has banned students from wearing expensive winter coats in an attempt to stop the shaming of those less fortunate or struggling financially. Woodchurch High School in Birkenhead, located in northwestern England, sent a letter to parents earlier this month announcing that the restriction would be enforced after Christmas. Rebekah Phillips, the head teacher at the school for students 11 to 16 years old, told CNN that she was "mindful that some young people put pressure on their parents to purchase expensive items of clothing," but that these jackets "cause a lot of inequality" between the students. "These coats cause a lot of inequality between our pupils," Phillips said. "They stigmatize students and parents who are less well off and struggle financially."
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There willl always be someone smarter, more attractive, more talented, more athletic, etc. than the next person, period.
I despise nanny states.
I suppose I was poverty shamed too.
I decided I didn’t want to be poor, and now I’m not.
Mom used to make me shirts for school. The collars may have been a little crooked, but I wore them anyway.
I wish I still had some of those shirts.
then you know it’s possible if the RATS ever take full control
This is silly because it’s capricious, but this is the ORIGINAL intent of the school uniform.
Mao suits for everyone!
They need to cancel the Olympics, too. Think about all those participants who don’t get medals. I’m sure their self-esteem suffers.
Nice point. We always bought winter coats for the next year at the end of the year winter sales with extra off for coupons. Many designer items 60-70% off. Much cheaper than good non name brand in September
Cheap coats don’t make it to second hand stores unless they are so ugly the first owner wouldn’t wear them.
The other day, when it was a very cold day here in NYC, as I was walking down the chilly street I distinctly recall thanking G-d that I was able to have the warm & cozy 700 down fill coat I was wearing. I didn't know if there was a specific blessing for a warm coat, but I suppose it's OK to just thank Him in general for allowing you the means to have one.
Damn I wish I was in school again. I’d sue the hell out of EVERYBODY. Even if I got lucky and win only one suit, I wouldn’t need a diploma or education anymore. It would be vacation and party time 24/7/365. When did it become some idiot’s responsibility to tell me what I can and cannot wear?
Uniforms simplify school and decrease the attention spent on clothes. I wore uniforms in high school. Didn’t matter to me one way or the other, easier in the morning.
I actually like the idea of uniforms but the idea of arbitrarily deciding a particular brand name coat costs too much I don’t like one bit.
That is a shame. Nuns are certainly not immune from thinking they know best and that their ideas on social justice trump the outcomes, the unanticipated consequences and the assault on individual rights.
It is bad to have children wear other children’s shoes because we mold & wear down our shoes in individual ways and the new owner may get blisters, or have gait issues so leaving out how cruel that nun’s “lesson” was it was a ignorant unfeeling act from the get go.
It is in england so it is probably likely to be burkas. They are lost.
Status for high schoolers in our neck of the woods is not obvious wealth flashing. Many years now and the students still drive older pickups, or trucks, of all makes and, so it seems, the more wear and tear, the better. Other cars are a variety of what parents hand over when they buy a new one. Plenty of well off parents around but not easy to impress others who do not advertise their bank account. Expensive clothing is a fact of life and hardly a thing to make a big statement about. Maybe the school was actually concerned about their insurance premiums going up for damage and theft.
“Why not go the whole route and just demand school uniforms?”
Kids in U.K. already wear school uniforms. This school has the following for uniforms: http://www.woodchurchhigh.com/uniform.php
So they will all be wearing a Mao suit.
I went to all Catholic girls high school. I was raised by middle class grand-parents living on SS and small pensions. You could still tell who was rich and not rich because of the Jewelry or the cars they drove to school. At prom time, their dresses, the rented limos’s, etc.
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