Please don't think I'm criticising your choice, Fenlander, I'm certainly not.
All I'm trying to do is enable you to see that there are so many who don't have that choice to make.
I don't agree that the majority of the *poor* you talk of do those things, the minority probably do but the vast majority of the *poor* I know just get on with working and paying the bills while quietly ending up worse off than they were the week before, through no fault of their own.
Mapmakers uniform price list says it all really.
I don't doubt it looks very smart and that the school is very commendable but the fact still remains that to obtain the basic set of uniform (which is compulsory) is so far out of reach of some people that they have to offer 3 x monthly payments.
Surely our priority is to educate, not to create debts for parents to fulfil before that can happen, for the sake of appearance?
Being honest, I have to say that I firmly believe that children/teenagers need to realise that they can't have everything, and that even though saying 'no' is probably painful for the parent, long term the effect on the offspring has to be beneficial.
Pat
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