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As temperatures rise and the school year nears its end, some students are questioning whether uniform rules remain practical. We’ve been exploring how policies designed to create fairness may also affect comfort, confidence and wellbeing.

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00:00I do, I wore, my whole school wore jeans through, well, like black jeans, through secondary school, it was to
00:08keep girls safe, I think, especially on stairs and things like that. I think it was a very wise thing
00:17to do for my school.
00:18I'm pleased you've mentioned this one, because my son's in high school, he struggles to regulate his heat, gets very
00:25hot, and last year he was not allowed to take off his blazer, and this was when the weather was
00:33heatwave, so he was actually quite unwell when he got home, because he didn't have much water at school, and
00:40he was very dehydrated through sweating as well, so yeah, I don't agree with the rigidness,
00:47I don't think in school to be any better of a person, I think that's values, morals and power.
00:53I was going to say, it should be as rigid as the staff, what they're allowed to wear, so they
00:56can wear a little bit more environmentally suitable than students should be.
01:01I always wore quite a strict school uniform, which I did think was a levelling thing, because everybody wore the
01:08same, it was not particularly pretty or glamorous or anything, but at least everybody was the same,
01:16and then outside of school you could express yourself more with your clothes, but I do think times have changed,
01:24it was very expensive to buy, a lot of people were put off.
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