Three quarters of traditional public schools in D.C. now require uniforms

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Anonymous wrote:I like the uniform and the way a white shirt looks on my prek3er when he gets to school ... But by the time he gets home he looks like he has been rolling in the gutter! It would be cute if they could all wear madras plaid shirts or something more practical.

White tops seem like a REALLY bad idea. The person who came up with that doesn't have kids and doesn't do laundry. Had to be some recent MBA grad on a consulting gig.

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I'm all for uniforms but white shirts are a terrible idea for little kids. DC's prior school allowed for white or blue tops and I rarely saw a kid wearing a white shirt.

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I have no particular objection to uniforms. Although it does cost me money because otherwise I would dress DD in 99% gifts and hand-me-downs. Mismatched pajamas were very much en vogue at her daycare and that was a convenience as well.

But I really loathe the white and khaki color schemes. Seriously who dresses a 3-year-old in light colors like that? I would much prefer navy and a colored top, even if it were a pastel.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid's HRCS dress code: Official school T-short (short or long sleeved), polo, or sweatshirt on top. Anything else goes. It's a nice compromise. Allows individuality but also accomplishes some of the goals of full uniforms.

I hated that HRCS uniform. Why? Because my DD was there, during the phase when she would only wear dresses. We compromised on skirts, but it was a battle ALL THE TIME.

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Anonymous wrote:I like the uniform and the way a white shirt looks on my prek3er when he gets to school ... But by the time he gets home he looks like he has been rolling in the gutter! It would be cute if they could all wear madras plaid shirts or something more practical.

White tops seem like a REALLY bad idea. The person who came up with that doesn't have kids and doesn't do laundry. Had to be some recent MBA grad on a consulting gig.

White isn't bad - BLEACH. Or Oxy Clean. We just keep a tub with Oxy and water in it and put the day's shirt in every night, wash once a week. It requires some effort, but minimal.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I like the uniform and the way a white shirt looks on my prek3er when he gets to school ... But by the time he gets home he looks like he has been rolling in the gutter! It would be cute if they could all wear madras plaid shirts or something more practical.

White tops seem like a REALLY bad idea. The person who came up with that doesn't have kids and doesn't do laundry. Had to be some recent MBA grad on a consulting gig.

White isn't bad - BLEACH. Or Oxy Clean. We just keep a tub with Oxy and water in it and put the day's shirt in every night, wash once a week. It requires some effort, but minimal.

Aren't you the superior laundress. You must be very proud.

P.S. I bet you are one of the people who was posting that everyone overreacted to the Pope's visit?

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Anonymous wrote:My kid's HRCS dress code: Official school T-short (short or long sleeved), polo, or sweatshirt on top. Anything else goes. It's a nice compromise. Allows individuality but also accomplishes some of the goals of full uniforms.

I hated that HRCS uniform. Why? Because my DD was there, during the phase when she would only wear dresses. We compromised on skirts, but it was a battle ALL THE TIME.

Shirt over dress, deary.

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Anonymous wrote:I like the uniform and the way a white shirt looks on my prek3er when he gets to school ... But by the time he gets home he looks like he has been rolling in the gutter! It would be cute if they could all wear madras plaid shirts or something more practical.

White tops seem like a REALLY bad idea. The person who came up with that doesn't have kids and doesn't do laundry. Had to be some recent MBA grad on a consulting gig.

An MBA would test market first. More likely an angry studies grad.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I like the uniform and the way a white shirt looks on my prek3er when he gets to school ... But by the time he gets home he looks like he has been rolling in the gutter! It would be cute if they could all wear madras plaid shirts or something more practical.

White tops seem like a REALLY bad idea. The person who came up with that doesn't have kids and doesn't do laundry. Had to be some recent MBA grad on a consulting gig.

An MBA would test market first. More likely an angry studies grad.

You don't hang out with enough Booz partners (and the like). This is precisely the BS they'd pull. Common sense aside, I bet the PPT slide that proposed the white shirt's was GENIUS.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I like the uniform and the way a white shirt looks on my prek3er when he gets to school ... But by the time he gets home he looks like he has been rolling in the gutter! It would be cute if they could all wear madras plaid shirts or something more practical.

White tops seem like a REALLY bad idea. The person who came up with that doesn't have kids and doesn't do laundry. Had to be some recent MBA grad on a consulting gig.

An MBA would test market first. More likely an angry studies grad.

You don't hang out with enough Booz partners (and the like). This is precisely the BS they'd pull. Common sense aside, I bet the PPT slide that proposed the white shirt's was GENIUS.

Having just left a 3 hour meeting with Booz, I just peed my pants on this.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I like the uniform and the way a white shirt looks on my prek3er when he gets to school ... But by the time he gets home he looks like he has been rolling in the gutter! It would be cute if they could all wear madras plaid shirts or something more practical.

White tops seem like a REALLY bad idea. The person who came up with that doesn't have kids and doesn't do laundry. Had to be some recent MBA grad on a consulting gig.

An MBA would test market first. More likely an angry studies grad.

You don't hang out with enough Booz partners (and the like). This is precisely the BS they'd pull. Common sense aside, I bet the PPT slide that proposed the white shirt's was GENIUS.

Having just left a 3 hour meeting with Booz, I just peed my pants on this.

I know your pain. Trust me, the only solution is to drink heavily.

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My dd had navy bottoms and white tops since age 4 at two different schools. I am so glad she's now at a non uniform school--and even when we were at uniform schools, I found myself inerpreting that to mean, "something white and blue somewhere on her body," by June.

Everyone brings up brands and class and how uniforms get rid of that. But they dont... unless they are also so strict as to dictate your child's backpack, shoes, and outerwear--in which case, good luck with that. I don't want to send my kid to a school that micromanages my choices and theirs to that extent.

My own childhood: non uniform schools all the way. You know where class snobbery factored in? The quaker school where I went to high school, where everyone had to have guess jeans, tretorns, and those firenze sweaters. Public school on the other hand? We were wearing pajama tops and fifties cocktail dresses. And it was fun.

School uniforms are one of those well-meaning but thoughtless inventions that end up being a source of stress more than they help if you want to dress your kid in white and navy, go for it. If not, whatever. I will say that both public schools my daughter went to didn't really care. There was no penalty for not wearing the uniform. If you have to do it, this is the way to go.

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And yes, white shirts? Lol. At least with girls you van have them wear jumpers over them... at least until their sensory issues demand that nothing is that binding.

I would just send my child to school with her permanently chocolate and jam stained white shirt. Cynically, I think as a white affluent person I had that option. I sometimes wonder if I was poor, if someone would report that.

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Anonymous wrote:I like the uniform and the way a white shirt looks on my prek3er when he gets to school ... But by the time he gets home he looks like he has been rolling in the gutter! It would be cute if they could all wear madras plaid shirts or something more practical.

White tops seem like a REALLY bad idea. The person who came up with that doesn't have kids and doesn't do laundry. Had to be some recent MBA grad on a consulting gig.

An MBA would test market first. More likely an angry studies grad.

You don't hang out with enough Booz partners (and the like). This is precisely the BS they'd pull. Common sense aside, I bet the PPT slide that proposed the white shirt's was GENIUS.

Having just left a 3 hour meeting with Booz, I just peed my pants on this.

I know your pain. Trust me, the only solution is to drink heavily.

+1! Booz sucks. And white uniforms for kids is just the kind of BS they'd think is a great idea. Make DCPS kids look like waiters.

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If you think white uniform shirts are a recent invention of a bored MBA, then you missed out on decades of parochial school uniforms dating waaaay back. Not everything, good or bad, was invented in your lifetime.

I did appreciate the Booz comment though.