This really ***** me off - the fact parents cant afford to get the "correct uniform" for the school - https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12192463
So many schools these days, force the students to wear certain types of clothing, and buy certain books etc and charge the fricking earth for them. Its no wonder people have to reach out to charities for help.
Our local college charges something like $90 for a school approved sweatshirt yet can pick up the exact same thing without school logo for $30 elsewhere. But if we did that, we'd get a letter from the school saying our child isn't wearing approved clothing.
Even primary school kids are thrown into uniforms straight away - which is the worst because they don't take care of the clothing and it ends up badly damaged or lost. Cha-ching for the school/manufacturers.
When I went to school, long as the clothing was school colors, they didn't care if it had the logo or not. They didn't care that we didn't shop at the "school approved" stationary store. As long as it had what we needed to do the work, that was it.
So many of the books kids buy these days never even get touched during the school year.
School uniforms need variety - they all look the same to me these days, only thing to tell them apart is the logo, but instantly add $60 to the cost for that. I was a witness to an incident years ago involving school kids, cops asked me which school they were from, my response was "don't know, all look the same". The cop agreed....
Anyway, schools/education board, need to stop being so anal about their uniforms and either drop the cost or drop the logo requirement.
My 2c/rage/rant/outburst for the day.
TLDR; Families cant afford school gear because of cost.