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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow. Thats your solution? These children are way better off in the same uniform as everyone else, than fighting the status wars of clothing. This is a problem for schools with uniforms to work out with the right entities. They should enforce their uniform codes in a reasonable way (otherwise they're pointless). However there should be some relief available for homeless and high poverty students. There are a hundred mechanisms to do this. There are many ways to do this short of getting lawyers involved, including donating, pta funds, uniform exchanges, or someone mentioned a mechanism through social workers that needs to be speeded up. If you are at a school with uniforms ask how children in the immediate future are being taken care of. And then start working to longer term solutions. That involves effort. [/quote]

Many of DC Schools with uniforms are title 1 schools - some upwards of 60%.  You need Old Navy / the Children's Place to sponsor a school for  year and provide 3 bottoms and 5 tops for a child.  You also need a uniform coordinator who collects and redistributes when items are grown out of.[/quote]

It would be lovely if private businesses took on our travails, however I fail to see how they have any obligation. It would be lovely pr for then - not sure how providing complete school wardrobes would affect their bottom line though.  You (the proverbial you) could organize a donation mill, like dress for success, that turned around uniforms and other tidy school clothing. However, in the interim title 1 students have title 1 $. Use some of that, or tap into other funding that streams from DC tax dollars to the less fortunate. What did Petula say about social workers being the coordinator for individual students uniforms? If that mechanism isn't working, reform it. Why don't we start with the simplest solution,  especially if there is an existing one that is supposed to be working but failing kids, rather than spinning out?  [/quote]

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