How do you feel about the way schools often seek to control how girls dress

@daveal i had that in school and i liked it, you can still add personal touches to uniform but it stops a lot of silliness and makes mornings a lot easier

@Footballstar makes a lot of sense

@daveal its pretty much the norm here, more American schools should do it

@daveal UK schools just love dictating every little aspect of students' clothes, even down to the colour of their socks. It makes headteachers feel big, strutting about their little empires like tinpot dictators. They even insist students' clothing is bought from their approved suppliers, who pay very large amounts of money to the school to be approved. Of course, suppliers have to inflate their prices in order to recoup that expense. It's just one gigantic scam.

@Sharon where exactly does the UK come into this?

@Footballstar I was just saying what the situation in the UK is. Uniforms are common here and school use them to rip-off parents by forcing them to buy the uniforms from "approved suppliers". All those who think school uniforms might be a good idea should be aware of that abuse.

To give an example of how parents are being ripped-off, my local supermarket sells polo shirts at £10 for a pack of five. Poorer quality polo shirts with a local school's logo (as required by the school) are £20 each!

Having a style that is required might be better than the explicit pieces of clothing.

@Sharon here its all pretty reasonably priced and most stuff will last until its grown out of and can be passed down

@Footballstar Is that the Republic of Ireland? Here, in England, a lot of schools see uniforms as a cash cow and another way for power crazed headteachers to exercise control over students and their parents.

@Sharon yeah in Ireland