Bringing down the cost of school uniforms
Schools love a posh uniform; parents and politicians less so
FOR THE many British families who have been struggling to look after children while clinging on to their professional lives, the prospect of schools reopening next week is a heartening one. But there is one aspect of the rentrée to which no parents look forward: the school-uniform bill. The Children’s Society, a charity, reckons that the cost of a state-educated pupil’s secondary-school uniform is now £337 ($445), up from £316 in 2015.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “The new school tie”
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