Interesting Maps

Using minor non compliance (shabby condition, minor colour differences) or non ownership of certain items to victimise a pupil, up to effectively managing them out of the school (once over 16) is a tactic I've seen a principal use.

Making people uncomfortable and comformist makes them easier to control, hence why prison uniforms are a thing in many places.

Having to repeatedly launder any single expensive item for five days a week is a huge burden. The pupil already has normal clothes that will get washed as it is, but a wash a day is not normal and having everything dried overnight generally means tumble drying, at a significant energy cost.

If the entire argument to retain uniforms is "I don't like your reasons uniforms are bad", they should still be dumped. The three main reasons given for having them are all absolute bollox; any defence of them never properly addresses that.

I've seen weak teachers (and an exceptionally weak, over-promoted principal) using minor issues with uniforms to bully pupils so no, it's not nonsense.

I wouldn't want to sit next to a teenager or young adult who's been wearing the same shirt for 3 days, which is what secondary school pupils are

If schools want to retain them, they should be forced to go 100% generic - no logos, no trims, no tie patterns, no tartans. I suspect there'd be no uniforms pretty damn quickly.

Which school prescribes a particular shirt, other than a colour?

If any school does, then I agree that they should not.

I don't want to sit beside you.

You've not actually done anything to disprove my reasons other than attempting to claim reality didn't happen (principal bullying students over minor uniform issues).

Yes, some people can't sew. It doesn't matter that it's not hard when some people just cannot do it.

210 is an obscene amount of money. 81% of parents reporting that the school had no affordable uniform choices is also obscene - there is absolutely no justification for custom uniform items.

Uniforms are just simpler. Schools without them often have a dress code which can be just as arbitrary and full of grey areas.

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I wonder about what that map means. Does it mean that someone would help you? Very unlikely that the US is so much better than Poland or Italy.

Most people in Ireland could probably name most of the European, N. American and Australian cities but would struggle with more than a half dozen of the Russian, Chinese or Indian ones.

yet the CSO suggest that Emily is the most popular name only in a line from Galway to South Dublin, albeit in 2024.

while for the boys Jack seems popular, except among the Jackeens.

Leitrim has an especially unusual girls name. The limitations of small population statistics.

I'm not surprised at Australia's high urbanisation. Due to its arid and drought-prone climate, you can't just build a house anywhere, dig a well and source water for yourself, so folk migrated to settlements along rivers.

Australia feels the effects of La Nina and El Nino more than any other country. During a drought cycle, the ground water can dry up, making rural living unsustainable.

What surprised me is how many people live in its cities as opposed to smaller towns. I guess it's to do with Australia being a colony and those cities being the entry point to the country.