Should school uniforms be abolished ?

paddyandy

Re dealing with Ads etc;Ireland is welded and wedded and bedded with the media .Impossible .

supernature

School uniforms are big business for a lot of people including the schools themselves.

No evidence to show they improve grades or behaviour.

Poor kids look poor rich kids look rich whatever you put them in.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

paddyandy wrote: »

You used latrine language at me first a few posts back if you'd care to look .

I believe I said "you pulled the idea out of yoru arse", which, while it may have caused offense, pretty much implied that you made up an idea and tried to pass it off as fact.

Anyway, enough dodging of the issue, if you want to go on like this you go on alone. If your next post does not address the issue with some sort of backup I'm not going to respond to it.

steddyeddy

I dont think uniforms improve grades or necessarily improve behaviour. What does improve behaviour and grades imo is a happy child. I havent got strong feelings on the uniform issue but I think whatever makes the child happy should be paramount. The best thing would be for the children to be asked wheter they want to wear one or not.

byhookorbycrook

Milk & Honey wrote: »

Are schools not supposed to teach the syllabus? Is the modern trend to know how to make a castle out of play dough but not know how to calculate the value of a 15% discount?

The key words here are "narrow" and "teach to" ie drill, drill drill,rote learning without understanding.

byhookorbycrook

Don't under-estimate the value of the uniform on trips either. My first ever school tour, two of us, fresh out of college took 70, yes 70, junior infants to the zoo. I still wake at nights trying to count them all.:D

steddyeddy

byhookorbycrook wrote: »

Don't under-estimate the value of the uniform on trips either. My first ever school tour, two of us, fresh out of college took 70, yes 70, junior infants to the zoo. I still wake at nights trying to count them all.:D

Fair play! That would be one of my worst nightmares!

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

byhookorbycrook wrote: »

Don't under-estimate the value of the uniform on trips either. My first ever school tour, two of us, fresh out of college took 70, yes 70, junior infants to the zoo. I still wake at nights trying to count them all.:D

Why not use hi-viz vests? They do that over here and you can see the little devils a mile away. Much cheaper too, I would have thought (school buys them then and what ever class needs them uses them).

byhookorbycrook

supernature wrote: »

School uniforms are big business for a lot of people including the schools themselves.

How do you mean business for the school?

Milk & Honey

byhookorbycrook wrote: »

The key words here are "narrow" and "teach to" ie drill, drill drill,rote learning without understanding.

So it is better not to learn at all in case they wouldn't understand?