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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have no dog in this fight, as my children aren't in elementary school.  However, I direct a childcare center and the teachers' children are the lower economic group that this is supposed to help.  They have the following complaints:

1. you need to buy MORE clothing - regular for weekend wear (nobody wears uniforms on weekends!) and ALSO uniforms for school.

2. the uniforms are often only sold through Lands End and wherever - so instead of "any white shirt and blue shorts" it's THESE white shirts and blue shorts, inevitably from Lands End/other expensive uniform place and they are very expensive.

3.  the uniforms are ALWAYS really light colors on top - and that means the shirts get so dirty every single day when your kid is 3 to 6 years old.  So they can't get two wearings from any shirts because one drop of lunch will make the white or light blue shirt dirty.  So they do more laundry ($ and finding time during the week) OR they own many more uniform shirts and shorts so they don't need to do laundry. For kids under 2nd grade, they wish the shirts were dark blue, dark green, dark red....

4.  kids grow so fast, they grow out of their uniforms so buying 7 or 8 shirts to handle the "must have 5 clean ones per week, can't get to laundromat until weekend" issue, they grow out of them before they get worn out.  Expensive!

5.  they wish there were uniform exchanges/sales (we had these when we were girl scouts) so they could get clothing less expensive.

6. they wish their kids could wear "any colored green shirt and any navy blue shorts/pants" rather than requiring them from a specific (expensive) place.  If that were true, they'd get their's from Target or Walmart. [/quote]

We have a swap shop at my school; I pay $5 per item, or $0 if I have some to swap.

You need fewer weekend clothes, and since the uniforms are all the same, you only need enough to cover your laundry frequency and the weather. You buy fewer clothes, not more.[/quote]

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