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Beating the Uniform Trap: How Parents Can Challenge Illegal School Policies

Hello everyone!  I hope you're surviving the first half of the Autumn Term - not long to go now! Today, I'm going to looking to a subject that has been something of a interesting deep-dive for me. When I were a lad (the latter half of the 1900s), my first school (an infant school, because we still had those) introduced a brand new uniform requirement that had never before been seen in a school for 5- 7-year-olds: ties. And I was the first child to proudly wear a proper tie-up tie in that school... ever! I was very proud. Since that day, every school I have ever attended has had a strict uniform policy - all of which included a tie - and I know from my in-class teaching days that many schools require a blazer as well. This uniform is expensive! And you have to have the correct   tie and blazer, from the approved  retailer... don't you? Let's talk about the laws that schools might be breaking!

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