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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I found uniforms to be more expensive. I’m not in the position to take free clothes from the school social worker when there are other families who need them more.

But now at a non-uniform school I can get hand me downs from anyone and thrift for way less money than buying new from target etc even with the sales. [/quote]

you’re in the minority. the fact is, textiles are cheap, and most people just buy new for their kids, including uniforms. and for that matter, it’s irritating but typical that DCUM sees all DC black kids as desperately poor, not even $14 for a new uniform. Plenty of working families here who can afford uniforms and chose schools that have uniforms like KIPP. Not all black kids in DC are homeless, get it?  This whole kerfuffle about uniforms is an object lesson in performative wokeness. [b]if you actually polled families at schools with uniforms[/b], my guess is a majority (even the “poors”) would want to keep them, particularly at places like KIPP where they are part of the identity. [/quote]

This is the obvious solution.  Lots more meaningful than mostly UMC DCUM posters arguing back and forth about what's best for people that most of us don't know who live in circumstances that we're not familiar with.

Also -- lots of things can be true.  Some homeless families might be in favor.  Some working class families who rely on hand me downs might prefer not to have them.  People whose kids don't go to those schools arguing about what's best is just silly.[/quote]

FWIW, not everyone on DCUM fits your stereotype. I’m a social worker who works primarily with families in Ward 8. I live in Ward 1 and my kids go to a uniform school. It definitely has pros and cons, but I think DCPS should subsidize the uniforms where they are required and/or figure out a way that kids’ uniforms could get washed at school. Our school actually has a washing machine and dryer and I’ve personally washed donated uniforms in the washer. [/quote]

Oh please.  DCPS should mandate uniforms, buy them for certain students and then wash their uniforms for them at school?’  Your ideas make Bernie seem like Milton Friedman![/quote]

Or, if uniforms are a hardship for some and compliance is an issue, they could consider doing away with them.  Seems like the simplest solution.[/quote]

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