A letter from daughters school..Its voluntary..plan to participate

Hello ersmommy, I really don't know what I would do. I think having uniforms is retared. I thik kids schould beable to wear whatever there parents pick out for them. I know so parents like the uniforms are good becuase it's less hassle and they don't have to worry about they kids being upset or what they pick out. If I was you I wold just let her wear what u already bought. Good luck to you and your family!!

"Plan to participate" would seem rather uncomfortable to me. They should tuck a Please or something in there. A voluntary program is voluntary .. and the wording of the letter seems to be at cross purposes with the world Voluntary. Perhaps it came across wrongly or at least differently than intended by the author.

I think it's a little late for them to be informing you of a uniform procedure! If they wanted parents to "plan to participate", they should have informed you at registration.I would call the school and state that you were not informed of this policy before, your child's clothing has already been purchased, and you need to know if there will be any "disciplinary actions" if she does not comply. You shouldn't have to buy all new clothes now just because they neglected to tell you sooner. The letter does not make it sound voluntary, it just sopunds like they don't want to make parents mad by enforcing an actual uniform policy.

If I were in your situation I wouldn't buy a single uniform. These schools kill me implementing uniforms and not considering what families are just making it by. Plus the school said it was voluntary, so just to spite their "plan to participate" comment I would send my children with the clothes I bought. They had no business saying it was voluntary and then turning around and telling you to plan to participate.

Basically what that letter says to me is, "We want your child's school to be a uniformed school, but we can't enforce it yet. We want you to feel obligated to purchase school uniforms for your child after reading this letter."

They probably want to enforce it, but for one reason or another aren't able to due to laws or something. I would be upset at the school. It would have been nice to know that prior to you buying her school wardrobe.

The way it sounds to me is its one of those half and half uniform schools. Where you can wear whatever brand but it must be those colors. I have seen that before. Where all students had to wear jeans and white shirts. It didn't matter what brand just had to be jeans and a white tuck in shirt. I would call the school and ask more about it. Sounds to me like they expect the kids in 'uniform'.