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To: Seaford Head School
End Discrimination and Victimisation of Less Well Off Children
We want you to change your uniform policy to make school logo backpacks optional, we have been hit with overpriced, poor quality, Chinese sweat shop backpacks for too long at a time when parents wallets are squeezed more than ever.
Why is this important?
A backpack is not uniform, nor is it important and the way children have been shamed for not having them, either because they can't afford them or are refusing to buy them because of their poor quality and high price is a disgrace. The idea that there is a 'cheap' version, a 'girls' version and two other versions in the pipeline goes against the principle of a standardised uniform anyway.
It is important for children to go to school to learn and make the most out of their education, not to go to school to be bullied by staff because they don't have the right backpack, not to be threatened with isolation and eventually expulsion, not to queue up at a 'poor door' to hand in their non school branded bags and in turn be bullied by students for being poor or different. All of us, adults and children, have more important things to worry about, you'd think a headteacher would too.
