• sudo@lemmy.today
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    13 hours ago

    If parents can only afford 40 currencies in clothes, I’m failing to understand how it being a uniform or some other clothes makes a difference.

    You think kids aren’t getting bullied anymore because they all wear the same clothes? Magically bullying is fixed when their outfits are the same?

    You want to discourage or prohibit children learning to accept themselves and develop independence and individuality?

    You think indoctrination is ‘building community’?

    • Squizzy@lemmy.world
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      8 hours ago

      I didn’t say any of that.

      If parents cant afford a uniform we here in the civilised world provide them free of charge. But it generally isnt the case that parents here cant spare forty a year for uniforms.

      I didn’t mention fixing bullying through any means, I removed an opportunity for it to occur. No magic involved.

      No I dont, those are essential to growing up. As are building communities, understanding you are part of one, finding commonalities with new people and new groups.

      Uniforms put kids on an equal footing within the school. Standards are important.