School Uniforms

Just read this in the Bristol Evening Post

Hundreds of Bristol youngsters will have to learn how to fasten a tie over the next few days as their schools return to formal uniforms. The popularity of shirts and ties and, often, blazers has increased in the last few years and several more schools are adopting the look this September.

I didn't know there had been a reduction in uniform wearing. Comments after the report suggest kids had been wearing polo style shirts...smart casual. Sounds like a good compromise.

Here they wear seemingly any old thing and I have to say the kids look pretty scruffy. Funny thing...nicknames for teachers don't seem to be the norm here. Is it because it's a different country or because it was so long ago that I was in school?