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Most English schools handing out clothes and food to children
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this post was submitted on 07 Sep 2023
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I'm in two minds about school uniform. I don't like the concept in general, but in my own personal experience, I was glad we did have it. We didn't have much money, and my mum was really strict about western clothes. I would have been picked on for not having any designer clothes/branded trainers (good old 90s) and wearing Indian clothes.
We didn't have those stupid logo rules though. As long as it was the right colour and we had a school badge attached to the jumper, it was fine.
I grew up poor and I got picked on for wearing baggy, second-hand uniforms. I would have been so much more comfortable in my own clothes.
School uniforms aren't a thing outside rich people schools here in Denmark.
In all the schools I went to no one gave a shit which brand of clothes you wore and no one was picked on for being poor.
Same here in the US -- I can't recall anyone people being picked on for clothes, though I'm sure it must have happened.
People sure did get picked on for other things, though.
OTOH Denmark has a functioning social security system unlike UK
Most bully's just find something else to bully you about, if not your clothes it's your hair, if not your hair it's the way you walk etc. Bullying can't be solved by trying to make the victims 'normal'. The problem lies with the bully's not the victims.
An alternative is to just have a more strict dress code (eg black shirt, no logo) rather than specific items sold directly by the school.