[Tom4784]

It's stupid af and there's no defending it, it's pedantic bull**** that's interfering with these kids' education for no good reason and the headteacher should be disciplined for disrupting these kids' education.

The two main reasons that always pop up to support these stupid decisions are:

1. Kids will get bullied and the uniform is somehow meant to prevent that. Bull****. Bullies will always find a reason to bully someone, uniform or not. It does nothing to prevent bullying and it doesn't aid the education process in any way, in fact, depending on the uniform and the weather it can actually decrease concentration.

2. The idea that uniforms somehow prep kids for working life, news-****ing-flash, if a workplace dictates that black shoes must be worn then chances are they won't give a **** about what they look like as long as they are black shoes.

The headteacher is a power mad bureaucrat who has just shown that he shouldn't actually have any authority because he has abused it in this situation. Education comes first and this headtwat's forgotten that.