School Uniforms

[KannikaP]

Cannot find the General topic, so here it is.

Did I not read that children were not needed to were different uniforms on different days of the week?

My 4 year old grandson started this Monday, and has to wear the ''scout''  uniform on Thursdays, different coloured shoes and shirts on other days.

Is this not very expensive for the poorer families?

 

[dinsdale]

29 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

Cannot find the General topic, so here it is.

Did I not read that children were not needed to were different uniforms on different days of the week?

My 4 year old grandson started this Monday, and has to wear the ''scout''  uniform on Thursdays, different coloured shoes and shirts on other days.

Is this not very expensive for the poorer families?

 

I think it was just Scouts uniform. 

[proton]

Sports, scouts, nurses, ordinary- wasteful nonsense

[Moonlover]

1 hour ago, dinsdale said:

I think it was just Scouts uniform. 

Correct.

 

 

[Yellowtail]

1 hour ago, KannikaP said:

Cannot find the General topic, so here it is.

Did I not read that children were not needed to were different uniforms on different days of the week?

My 4 year old grandson started this Monday, and has to wear the ''scout''  uniform on Thursdays, different coloured shoes and shirts on other days.

Is this not very expensive for the poorer families?

 

No, the uniforms are not very expensive, and next to nothing used. 

[nightfox]

Many Thai schools, my kids included subsidize school uniforms to parents as  you need provide the school with the uniforms purchase receipts and they will reimburse a portion back to you.

[Yellowtail]

I think it safe to say that parents have to buy clothes for their children to go to school anyway. The uniforms do not really cost any more than other cheap clothes, and they are available used everywhere. 

 

Nice to have one less thing for kids, particularly poor kids to get teased about. 

[brewsterbudgen]

Nice not to have to buy or wear scouts uniform any more.  Thick uncomfortable material with a ridiculous belt and silly hat!

[Yellowtail]

1 minute ago, brewsterbudgen said:

Nice not to have to buy or wear scouts uniform any more.  Thick uncomfortable material with a ridiculous belt and silly hat!

I thought the Scout uniforms (and activities) were nice, but I can understand why you would hate them. 

[brewsterbudgen]

1 minute ago, Yellowtail said:

I thought the Scout uniforms (and activities) were nice, but I can understand why you would hate them. 

Fortunately I've never had to wear one, but my son hated his and his pleased that now he can wear PE kit and just the scout scarf.

[kickstart]

The government helps out with the school uniform at 320 baht per student but like in our countries school shoes are expensive a pair of the black school shoes for a young student costs 300 baht, which is almost a day's wage for someone on minimum wage. It is still expensive for a lot of families.

The family usually rallies around with hand-me-downs, wife's great-granddaughter is using a pair of sports day shoes from her cousin.

Same with scouts and guids' uniforms most are hand-me-downs as for the hat, almost the same design as Baden Powell himself.

[MalcolmB]

I think the girls university uniforms look nice.

[Yellowtail]

Just now, MalcolmB said:

I think the girls university uniforms look nice.

Siam Square on a weekday afternoon...

[MalcolmB]

Just now, Yellowtail said:

Siam Square on a weekday afternoon...

Thanks for that.

The thing that is great about this forum is the way we all help each other.

[brewsterbudgen]

3 minutes ago, MalcolmB said:

I think the girls university uniforms look nice.

They're iconic!

[FruitPudding]

1 hour ago, nightfox said:

Many Thai schools, my kids included subsidize school uniforms to parents as  you need provide the school with the uniforms purchase receipts and they will reimburse a portion back to you.

 

The government actually gives the money out for this to all schools, but some schools just keep the money. 

[Liverpool Lou]

3 hours ago, Yellowtail said:

3 hours ago, MalcolmB said:

I think the girls university uniforms look nice.

Siam Square on a weekday afternoon...

...and none of those to which you two are probably referring are official uniforms.