I hate the cookie cutter mentality of the schools. I honestly feel like they are just trying to make the kids into robots!

We have a super active parents group that actually isn't part of the PTA, because the PTA mostly just pats themselves on the backs for their endless expensive fundraisers that never actually end up giving money to the schools. We parents even hired a lawyer to sue the board to put an injunction against the uniforms and other changes until it could be worked out as a group (meaning the community with the school board) and the courts basically won't give us the time of day. The hearing has been perpetually postponed and will probably never even happen.

We have in k-2nd grade mandatory p.e. for 40 mins each day, 3-5 have it for 30 mins twice a week and then the older grades have to take it one semester per school year. From what I understand though, the older grades mostly spend p.e. time doing homework or chatting, though you can play basket ball if you want to do something.

The problem with the uniforms is/was that most parents actually participated in the survey and over 70% both times voted against it. That really should have been the end of it. Let me tell you, they also are only allowed to wear "school colors" which are WHITE, BLACK or GOLD. And then only black or khaki pants, shorts, skirts or jumpers. Right now it is over 100 degrees outside, so it just asinine to put black on that list. And how often have you been able to keep a kid's white shirt clean? Especially if they wear it to school? So that leaves GOLD!!! They must have collars and no logos, designs, etc on them at all. The school didn't "order" any uniforms at the local stores until the end of May so the stores here actually aren't even carrying the uniforms. We have some khaki shorts and skirts, but its difficult to find ones that don't have pockets (they cannot have pockets). The only shirts are white, no black and no gold were ordered because the board waited so long to let the stores know about this happening (apparently orders are done many months ahead of time).

I understand the argument about worrying about others clothes, at least, I can see why that may worry some people. When I was in school I was very poor and I pretty much had nothing to wear and definitely nothing cute or nice, but no one ever made fun of me. Maybe I was lucky, I'm not sure. I'm fairly sure though that if this is an actual problem here, it's not going to be resolved by not allowing them to wear what they want, the jerks will still make fun of people, they will just find something else to pick on. I think the uniforms are about control.

This is the shirt color: