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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]My issue with this debate is that essentially what many of you are saying is that poor children should be happy to just wear their uniform all the time. [/b]In my experience, as a poor kid myself and then as the mom of a kid in a uniform school in DCPS, [b]children would like to wear a Spider-Man shirt or a dress that’s not navy and collared or jeans instead of khakis.[/b] Suggesting that families ignore that desire and prioritize uniforms seems to me to be yet another way to make poor people feel crappy. Sure, kids need clothing. They need clothing that is clean, appropriately sized and weather appropriate. It doesn’t have to be a school uniform. If the school did not require uniforms, children and families would still be buying one set of clothing. They would not also have to sacrifice their individual preferences as you are suggesting. When my kid graduated from her uniform school and started at a school that doesn’t require uniforms, she was very happy to start being more experimental with fashion. I don’t think that should be limited to kids whose families can afford to buy an entire second set of clothing. [/quote]

Thank you!  One or more PPs keeps forcefully arguing that uniforms are not a hardship, when several of us have provided evidence that it can be.

Also, yes, it irks me that kids WOTP are allowed individuality and can wear that Spider-man t-shirt or whatever according to their whim, but that my brown EOTP kid is not allowed to.  It's part of a larger pattern of harsh, punitive rules regulating children's clothing/hair at majority black/brown schools across the country.[/quote]

Oh please, then pick a school, move or transfer to one that doesn't have uniforms.  It has nothing to do with skin color and you sound racist.  We've had our African American principal criticize some of our white kids hair for being too long.  But, since they are white and he is not, I'm assuming that is ok with you?[/quote]

PP, is this an elaborate piece of performance art in an attempt to illustrate white privilege, or are you really that dumb?

You solutions to the challenges of poverty are  for poor folks to move or "transfer" to a different school.  You seem totally unaware that:

1. Moving is expensive.
2. Adding commute time to the schedules of people who often already spend many hours on public transportation and work multiple low wage jobs is a huge hardship.
3. Poor people often have bad credit, which severely limits their options for where they can live.  There are actually seminars offered by landlords who own property in poor areas that are intended to teach wealthy suburbanites how to operate rental property in poor and minority areas because it can be so profitable.  Landlords have a captive market of people with bad credit.  They can buy properties for almost nothing and do nothing to maintain them.  Poor people with no options cooperate with landlords in concealing code violations from inspectors because they can't afford to move.  That's how you end up with entire buildings with no functioning toilet and buildings with no laundry facilities.

"Just move" is one of the least informed suggestions for dealing with challenges posed by expensive uniforms that I've ever heard.  Being ignorant isn't a sin, but your compulsion, oddly common in today's racists, to --- apropos of nothing --- accuse the people trying to educate you of racism is pretty reprehensible.  I never thought I'd miss the straightforward racists of the rural south of my childhood, but at least they were honest.

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