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I can see this as being a positive thing for the students involved but what about the new students - the kids, preschoolers, not in school yet? Do they just inherit what the previous students had decided on or would this exercise be repeated every year?

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My child is in elementary school, and the other due to start in September, so yes elementary level would be a good start.

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OK, you know I'm against them however I can see some of the points raised. But here's something else to think about.

A lot of schools in Calgary at least, have a quite large range of students from the quite affluent to the very poor. Some of the very poor can't even feed the kids before sending them out the door to school and some schools have supplies of hand me down clothes for those that show up improperly dressed especially in winter. How can we expect these people to purchase uniforms?

The school my wife worked at before she retired was this way, a lot of Bosnian and Afghanistan refugees who could barely feed or clothe the kids.

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Well, we don't want that sort mixing with our children anyway, do we?

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Hey I've been duped!!!
I was expecting photographs!

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I would rather that my children mixed with people from all walks of life so that they learn compassion, understanding and acceptance of others. Not grow up to be intolerant of anyone who happens to be different.

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Dear destinationnovascotia, firstly, lovely username: secondly, have you considered destinationtexas instead? You'd fit right in with your refined sense of irony.

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having been 6 years in uniformed elementary schools & then 5 years in non-uniformed secondary school, I think there are good points in both.

Uniformed school, it was easier to blend in with the other kids and less class distinction. Although instead we still picked out the little differences in class by our hair styles & shoes & accents.... there is no way to hide this and kids will always find a way to single out other kids for bullying if they feel insecure enough in their own selves.

non-uniformed school threw me for a loop & I went through many a fashion faux pas & a few really bad haircuts including a poodle perm *shudder*

At first I was blatantly different from the other kids as I was wearing white blouses & pleated skirts & mary janes (black shiny shoes) and then to baggie sweaters 4 sizes too big for me and Levi jeans, then to labels the 'cool' girls were wearing wich were (at the time) Au Cotton & United Colours of Benetin & Roots tank tops/t-shirts-baggy trousers and really short shorts cut out from old pairs of jeans, teasing & hairspraying cement into our fringes (yech, hate having hairspray in my hair now!)

After about 2 years of experimenting with fashions & hairstyles many not good results listed above, I finally found MY style, my personality & my identity by year 3 of not wearing uniforms.

Recently got in touch with some old classmates of mine & found out that there were a few boys who fancied me for years & never spoke up and this was during and after the 'akward' bad hair & tacky clothes phases straight in to the 'i dont care if you think its cool or not, *I* like it' phase *lol*

In a way, uniforms helped everyone blend in, but it also just postponed the inevitable self-journey of discovering who we are, what defines us and what we feel comfortable with.

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and how were they supposed to know that from your post??? was it the judicious use of emoticons???;)

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To quote the bard*, "One strives not to emote"

*dbd33, in this case.

An alternative clue could have been found by reading the thread.

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eh???

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2 High schools in my town, one is introducing a uniform this September, by coincidence my daughter is transferring there this year also. She is not too bothered about a uniform and neither am I. Tend to agree with having a uniform, yes everyone tends to look the same but kids come up with novel ways to assert their individuality when forced to where the same clothes as everyone else.

Another point made by the school was that staff will be able to identify kids who do not go to that school as in the past kids would wander into the other schools at breaks lunchtimes etc so by having a uniform staff can identify who should not be in the building.

Yes it is expensive and I am going to struggle buying it but it saves on her regular clothes (she will not have to buy as many!) To decide the school polled the parents who voted in favour (think it was close at 55%) of the uniform. Have to see how it goes.

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Earlier in the thread I expressed my opinion that the majority of Canadians reject school uniforms because they represent a vestige of the English class system.

Steve pointed out, quite correctly, that many recently arrived Canadians, including several from e.g. Bosnia or Afghanistan, can't afford things like uniforms, relying as they may on charity for children's clothes.

If any (including yourself) had read this, then the ironic nature of my following remark should have been self-evident.

I hope this helps.

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Novo you big smart ar*e you! *lol* Missed you, not been on here much of late :D

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You have no evidence either way about the size of my a*se.

Missed you too.