School Uniforms

[Yellowtail]

1 minute ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

  I prefer to pay rather than  being a freeloader .

 

Then why are you asking? 

[FruitPudding]

1 hour ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   Aren't free School uniforms just for the poor Children the ones that cannot afford them ?

 

It's money that you can spend on anything school related (uniform or stationary).

 

And no, high society schools, like mine, get it too.

[kingstonkid]

On 5/22/2025 at 7:28 PM, Yellowtail said:

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

 

That is actually the problem with these uniforms especially at the Pratom level

 

Kidds grow so fast that it gets expensive.  

 

The schools demand that you only wear their uniforms but there is not enough of a sceond hand market at a school.

 

you have to think that families and kids would take better care of them and that the uniforms could be consigned to second-hand stores 

 

Imagine if they came up with a set uniform shirt and shorts, shoes and such and the government set up a second hand store.  Parents would push Somchai to look after the uniform and then would have the ability to turn in the clean uniform and get another for that year at almostno cost. 

 

The only thing that would have to be stopped is the name on the uniform

 

[pomchop]

On 5/22/2025 at 3:55 AM, FruitPudding said:

 

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

If I remember correctly the govt pays for the uniforms up til about 9th grade then they have to buy their own or get hand me downs...at least that is how it was ten years or so ago up north.

[cdemundo]

In the US poor kids (way back when) liked the uniforms cuz they didn't have to be compared with  others.

My friend hated having to go to school in clothes her mom made.

I don't know how many feel that way here.

[Kasset Tak]

People complaining about the school uniforms?!

Many students wear the same clothes for 3 years, and in many cases those are hand me downs. Same when someone here was complaining about 300 Baht shoes... sure that is what some people make in a day... but how much do you spend on your own shoes?!  Just think about what quality you would get if you bought 100 Baht shoes?!

This week the school started here, and on Wednesday I saw 4 students walking barefoot and stup me, I asked them why... in 3 out of the 4 cases they answered that their new shoes had broken.

[Yellowtail]

20 minutes ago, kingstonkid said:

 

That is actually the problem with these uniforms especially at the Pratom level

 

Kidds grow so fast that it gets expensive.  

 

The schools demand that you only wear their uniforms but there is not enough of a sceond hand market at a school.

 

you have to think that families and kids would take better care of them and that the uniforms could be consigned to second-hand stores 

 

Imagine if they came up with a set uniform shirt and shorts, shoes and such and the government set up a second hand store.  Parents would push Somchai to look after the uniform and then would have the ability to turn in the clean uniform and get another for that year at almostno cost. 

 

The only thing that would have to be stopped is the name on the uniform

 

Kids have to have clothes everywhere in the world, and kids outgrow them quickly everywhere in the world. If kids did not have to wear uniforms, they would have to wear something, and whatever that something was, it would not be free. 

 

Wearing a uniform influences the student to behave and perform like a student. 

 

Teaches dressing "formally" influences the students to respect and obey the teacher. 

 

Everyone dressing in play clothes influences everyone to play. 

 

The education my boy received, and atmosphere he was educated in, was far superior to the education he would have received than he would have received at a typical public school in California where I grew up. 

 

It's not the poor that do not want the kids to wear uniforms. It's the rich that do not want the unforms, and they are pretending to care about the poor to make the case.