School uniforms

Can I defend teachers please? They are told to check uniform, and can be told off if, on a lesson observation, there is a pupil not in complete uniform in their class. Presumably Senior Leadership Team of school will say they are told by the governors or Multi-academy Trust to push school uniform.

And sure Nursery uniform (usually just a bright sweatshirt?) is safety-aware when taking them off-site?

I think so, Hm999; it would be much easier to spot an escapee.
I have seen groups of nursery children out wearing bright purple or red, but bottle green isn't at all distinctive.

Standing in for another lecturer in an FE college, I started a discussion among a class of trainee nannies about school uniform. They unanimously agreed that they had always hated it and were glad to be free of it. Then I looked at them: each one of them was wearing jeans and a college sweat shirt!

it reminds me of a group of men in a pub all saying that they could never join the Forces because they didn't want to wear a uniform.
All wearing identical blue jeans and t shirts.

I think anything with a 'must have' label is the equivalent of wearing a uniform.
Why people would pay a ridiculous amount to wear the same as other people, I don't know.

And, of course, there will be the 'haves' at school wearing the 'must have labels' and the 'have nots' unable to compete, perhaps bullied or, even if not, being made to feel awful.

School uniform is a leveller as long as it is a sensible uniform and the costs are kept down.

I'm eternally grateful my grandsons school has a uniform.
I would hate him to be the kid that lives with his Nan and doesn't have the latest labels to wear.