School Uniform

[Beach Babe]

[Porty]

Agreed. My two went off this morning looking as smart as buttons. I am delighted about the new policy and its not before time.

[Epykat]

I know I might be slightly biased but I also thought the kids looked brilliant today. They seemed to be mainly enthusiastic about the whole thing. My very own pet teenager was even up early to iron his shirt!!!
(oh, and he even folded up his trousers when he got in - although it is still only day one!)

[bellybabe]

<big grin>
Other half works now in an office with a parent of Porty High pupils. One of whom was sent home today for arriving wearing non-standard uniform. The funny part was that said co-office worker's child was sent home by husband of...other new office co-worker! Oops!

I think it's great that the uniform thing has come back.

[Lindsay the Book]

Some of the kids remarked that the teachers should also be subject to a dress code. They were complaining bitterly about tee shirt and jean wearing staff.

[flearoy]

Quite right, teachers should be setting an example. There isn't many jobs these days that you can turn up looking scruffy and when your standing on front of impressionable young people you should quite frankly look the part.

I agree everyone looks really good it's much nicer than the mingin green uniform i had to wear to my school and the krappa kappa all the porty lot used to wear. Bruce and my sister where so excited that last week they where both prancing around the house at 1 am in full uniform looking in all the mirrors.

He's going to be now.

[Beach Babe]

lol flearoy

that's what sisters are for imo

there's so much fun to be had making a brother

[Jamesie]

You've got to ask why the kids are turning up out of uniform. If its because they're trying to be fashionable, then send them home to have a long think.

If its because the parents haven't bought them uniforms, then thats another matter entirely. I trust the Portobello High guidance system will root out the posers from the genuine cases.

James

[Beach Babe]

[Dadaist]

[Epykat]

[flearoy]

[wangi]

I remember reading somewhere in our "guidelines" I shouldn't do this... But the opportunity is just too good...

"You went to a private school", how was the English?

[Guest]

I blame the teetchers myself. Wangi, consider yourself reprimanded.

[wangi]

"Eats, Shoots & Leaves" is a good read - I'd never have thought grammar could be entertaining!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASI ... 65-8135049

[Dadaist]

[Porty]

[flearoy]

[Poppy]

Flearoy, if you intend to be a writer and cannot spell you will be in the company of Hemmingway, Keats, V Woolf and Yeats, according to an article in the Indy on Sunday yesterday.

And also accordingly to this article 'weird' is one of the top ten missspelled words in English, so, wangi, you are not alone either!!

The article was basically a 'puff' for a book due out next week, which sounds like it might appeal to those of us who enjoyed 'Eats, Shhots and Leaves'.



And I have to confess I wrote an essay about the poem 'Michael' by Wordsworth - and spelt it 'Micheal' the whole way through!! [and I mean 'wrote' - no spellcheck in 1974!! ]