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Your statement is a massive contradiction.
On one hand you want your daughter to concentrate more on their head instead of what's on their feet. At the same time you disagree with school uniforms. By definition, the uniform standardise the dress code so every kid is on equal footing dress code wise and they don't have to think about whats on their feet. They don't need to spend hours every morning thinking "what am I going to wear to school today". "when did I last wear this skirt", "are these trainers to latest fashion". etc.
Standardisation is no argument whatsoever. Our rules were stupidly strict yet it was always obvious which kids' parents had money and which kids' parents didn't.
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
How many cotton shirts I've binned because of paint/ glue / whatever stains I can't even fathom.
My daughter is not an airhead. She dresses up according to what she's doing. Sending kids home to change their shoes because they're the "wrong" type of leather finish (they've done this many times!) means missing lessons. Ridiculous.
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Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after youWhen I was at school it was an immediate detention for not wearing your cap properly !
mind you, we had to wear grey flannel shorts until we were 13 !
Maybe it's a trick to influence their adult dress code, AFAIK none of the kids wear short skirts after school (much)
In Greece and other southern European countries, if you went into e.g. a church or monastery you would be expected NOT to wear shorts (men) or be bare-shouldered/bare-legged (women).
Honestly can't see anything wrong with that. I'm a parent myself and this seems like a very reasonable dress code. You wouldn't want your daughter to attract too much attention from adult men and your son (if you had one) to get beaten up for wearing a wrong football club tshirt.
Mind it's a school trip and teachers are responsible for the kids so the less possible trouble the better.
so this is a preemptive 'we told you so' in an attempt to short circuit that. like signs on railings that say 'please don't put your head through these railings'.
in this context, Amsterdam is famous/infamous/notorious for having a liberal attitude towards many things people in other countries get uptight about (including Brits). sex is one, drugs another. as someone above said, it's a case of everything being compartmentalised; some things get a light liberal touch, others a conservative touch. but sex & drugs are generally in the liberal box.
the netherlands used to have a much lower age of consent (before prosecutions for age diffrences would begin) compared to the UK. the baseline got raised to 16 a decade or so ago, but there's still that liberalism in the culture towards younger people doing what they want, if & when they want. they also have legalised prostitution in many parts of town. probably (teens will be teens) those parts of town your teens will be most attracted to. teens drink & drug too.
so without going into polaroid detail, the school has covered itself by making its position clear.
as for the football shirts, english fans don't have the rosiest of reputations abroad (let's be frank). & there's some big football thing going on somewhere over the next few weeks, as far as i can tell.
if you are in a foreign country and the home team there gets kicked out of a big contest by your home team, & hooligans on their side are unhappy & drunk & you are wearing the wrong shirt? or vice versa with the home & away teams. he could also get swept up by police if any hooligans kick off. (fans & hooligans different species).
i'm all for people 'doing what they want'. passionately so. so i can relate to the OPs initial recoil at the schools terms. but in a litigious age, agencies are obliged to cover their asses (legally & financially) so that if & when people who are 'doing what they want' f*ck up, they can't dodge personal responsibility for their own f*ck ups. they have to own them.
you know your kids will listen to you (even if they pretend not to) & ignore anything the school says as a matter of course. so maybe just talk to them before they go about the context these terms are trying to address. you are a wise owl & (deep down) they are probably wise owlets.
The old saying "We give away our best advice" eh?
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Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after youthe daughters could end up getting jobs in the Banana Bar.. lol..
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Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after youHow can any child wearing a hoodie, joggers and trainers have any pride in their appearance?
They look smart but practical. Perfect in my view as there are no barriers to joining in with everything.
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Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after you