Re:Once poor, always poor?
by kingcharles on Monday December 27, 2021 @03:55PM
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What's funny is how niche it got. At my school with uniforms which dictated the type of shoe you had to wear, the "cool" kids would steal these tags off the laces of the shoes in the stores in town. The coolest kids had the most tags hanging off their shoelaces O_O
A) It didn't solve the issue, people looked at other signifiers such as jewellery or shoes instead (or if the uniform required "a white polo" then they'd have a name brand polo instead).
B) It forced the parent to buy (in some cases) expensive Uniform(s) (because you can't have just 1 and kids grow quickly too).
For the second point I was fortunate enough to have really good grades when tested, so I was allowed to go to a more prestigious school that required a tie and blazer.
The total cost for everything was more than my Mum received in cash for an entire year. If it wasn't for my granddad stepping in I wouldn't have been able to go to the school on those grounds alone.
(EDIT: just so I'm clear, Mum got about 48~ gbp per week but rent was paid directly by the Government)