Eat, Heat, or "Gang Colours"

How many children in UK schools are going to be put into "isolation" or otherwise bullied because their parents chose to squander what little money they have on food, rent, or heating their homes. Don't these irresponsible parents understand that it it much more important to massage headteachers' ego by pandering to their whims and ensuring their children have the correct "Gang Colours", euphemistically called "school uniform"? Clothes suppliers pay large amounts to schools, to be appointed "the official supplier", thereby having a monopoly. They need to be able to fleece parents to recoup that outlay.

UK teachers aren't competent enough to teach unless their students are dressed in the correct gang colours.