Too costly for families

I must admit when all children are in the same uniform it looks spot on, and makes the school very attractive to parents, but at the end of the day a school is somewhere to get an education.

Forcing parents to go to an expensive shop and pay more than twice the amount for a pair of trousers is so wrong.

So sending pupils home means they are not getting that education.

The councillor, Robert Oliver, who happens to be a school teacher, should know better than to blame the parents.

Saying the school uniform should be the first item in the family budget is contemptible.

There’s a lot of parents with schoolchildren who are on benefits, and a lot of those parents are working and it must be a nightmare trying to balance the household budget, that’s what makes Robert Oliver’s statement all the more insulting, it’s all about style over substance.

Ged Taylor