Letter of the week: "Forcing parents to go to expensive shop for school uniforms is so wrong"
Forcing parents to go to an expensive shop and pay more than twice the amount for a pair of trousers is so wrong.
So sending pupils home, as has happened at Houghton's Kepier School this term, means they are not getting that education.
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Hide AdThe councillor, Robert Oliver, who happens to be a school teacher, should know better than to blame the parents (Echo, September 7).
Saying the school uniform should be the first item in the family budget is contemptible.
There’s a lot of parents with schoolchildren who are on benefits, and a lot of those parents are working and it must be a nightmare trying to balance the household budget, that’s what makes Robert Oliver’s statement all the more insulting, it’s all about style over substance.
Ged Taylor