School in England bans designer Canada Goose and Moncler jackets

All schools in the Uk have a uniform policy...

I remember in the 60's when my aunt and uncle from Toronto came to visit, they were delighted to see us kids in uniform, they said that the cost of buying the latest fashion for my teen cousins to go to school in was crippling, so a Uniform would solve all the infighting and jealousies in schools, and also the pockets of the parents..

However that said.. despite the uniform policy here, children are very well aware of the haves & have nots, because of their expensive shoes, or fashionable outerwear. their school bags .. or even an expensive hair cut. ...so unless the school insists on overcoats over the blazers as part of the uniform ( which I had at one of my schools), they really can't dictate the cost of a childs outer garment!! ( incidentally I've never heard of that make either..maybe it's a northern English thing)

Chic sorry you were bullied at school.. I was too, so I know how horrible it is.....
 

I'm with hollydolly. We didn't have school uniforms, but it wouldn't have made a difference. "Mark" owned a brand new sports car that he drove to high school. His friend Bruce owned one of the nicest 16' boats on the lake. No question they "came from money". Meanwhile, others clearly had little by way of material wealth. We learned early about life's inequalities and were thus prepared to deal with them as adults.

I feel sorry for some of today's "protected" kids . . . leaving school and entering the real world is going to be a terrible shock and they won't be prepared to cope.
 
I agree, kids need to cope with some adversity in order to surive and thrive as adults. The key word is “some.” Severe bullying can kill, then and now.
 

C'est Moi said:
The article states "A secondary school in Merseyside has banned pupils from wearing expensive designer coats in an attempt to stop “poverty shaming”." So no mention of items being stolen, and why would the school be responsible for theft anyway?
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Believe me, parents do hold the teachers responsible for such things.
They expect the staff to drop everything and find their child's expensive missing item.

'Poverty shaming' is a new one on me but one of the rationales for having school uniforms is to make it easier for disadvantaged kids to fit into the school community. Australian schools all have uniforms and weather conditions mean that overcoats are not necessary so the problem mentioned in the OP does not arise. However, on mufti days, when everyone comes to school out of uniform, some of the poorer kids take the day off because they cannot compete with the rest the kids when it come to their personal wardrobe.
 
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