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Posted: 11/16/2018 5:20:50 PM EDT
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If one kid has to be cold, they all should be cold!
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Posted: 11/16/2018 5:21:31 PM EDT
[#2]
Holy shit! $ 1200 winter jackets for school kids
That article is insane! "poverty proofing" includes not allowing teachers to ask what kids did on the weekend so "poor kids whose parents don't do shit with them won't feel bad" WTF 
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Posted: 11/16/2018 5:30:12 PM EDT
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Just trying to prepare the kids for the day the government can finally enforce fairness and assign them everything they need.
Anyone that spends $1200 on a kids coat is retarded ETA, I grew up broke as hell, rich kids pretended to be broke wouldn't have made my life any better. |
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Posted: 11/16/2018 5:32:15 PM EDT
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If a parent can afford a $1200 coat perhaps the parent could place the child in a private school?
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Posted: 11/16/2018 5:35:02 PM EDT
[#5]
Yes let's not teach kids to deal with jealousy and disappointment. That'll work out well when they get into the real world.
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Posted: 11/16/2018 5:36:30 PM EDT
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Just trying to prepare the kids for the day the government can finally enforce fairness and assign them everything they need. Anyone that spends $1200 on a kids coat is retarded ETA, I grew up broke as hell, rich kids pretended to be broke wouldn't have made my life any better. |
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Posted: 11/16/2018 5:44:15 PM EDT
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Posted: 11/16/2018 5:46:11 PM EDT
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My kids would come into skool the next day with a giant gold chain, diamond earrings, and everything LV made in their catalogue out of spite.
Don't tell me how to dress my kids. |
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Posted: 11/16/2018 5:46:15 PM EDT
[#9]
LOL go be rich somewhere else.
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Posted: 11/16/2018 5:49:17 PM EDT
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My kids would come into skool the next day with a giant gold chain, diamond earrings, and everything LV made in their catalogue out of spite. Don't tell me how to dress my kids. |
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Posted: 11/16/2018 5:49:48 PM EDT
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My kids would come into skool the next day with a giant gold chain, diamond earrings, and everything LV made in their catalogue out of spite. Don't tell me how to dress my kids. 
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Posted: 11/16/2018 5:50:52 PM EDT
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When I was a kid and we were broke as fuck, the entire family living in a 1BR apartment eating Ramen Noodles every day for dinner, I didn't really give two shits what other people wore.
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Posted: 11/16/2018 5:51:01 PM EDT
[#13]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
Holy shit! $ 1200 winter jackets for school kids That article is insane! "poverty proofing" includes not allowing teachers to ask what kids did on the weekend so "poor kids whose parents don't do shit with them won't feel bad" WTF |
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Posted: 11/16/2018 5:51:40 PM EDT
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Just trying to prepare the kids for the day the government can finally enforce fairness and assign them everything they need. Anyone that spends $1200 on a kids coat is retarded ETA, I grew up broke as hell, rich kids pretended to be broke wouldn't have made my life any better. To be honest didn’t even really notice the rich kids. I'm from a very poor council estate in the north. It didn’t get much worse it was small so we went to school with kids from huge houses ( what I thought then) Didn’t give a fuck what they wore I liked my council Parker :) while they were dressed as Fred Pringle Ps like any of these kids have real Canada goose coats. They were ill all be knock offs from the market. |
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Posted: 11/16/2018 6:00:11 PM EDT
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Two things.
If all the parents are onboard (and it seems they are...they did a standard book bag too) then, no harm no foul. If not, just have the label expertly removed and a cheap name put in. China knock-off. ETA the rich kid in my school was not a problem. 
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Posted: 11/16/2018 6:01:36 PM EDT
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"The problem with capitalism is the unequal distribution of wealth; the problem with socialism is the equal distribution of misery." Winston Churchill, I believe. How right he was.
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Posted: 11/16/2018 6:11:49 PM EDT
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Not defending this at all, but class distinctions in the UK are more than a little bit different than they are in the US.
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Posted: 11/16/2018 6:15:18 PM EDT
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"The problem with capitalism is the unequal distribution of wealth; the problem with socialism is the equal distribution of misery." Winston Churchill, I believe. How right he was. |
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Posted: 11/16/2018 6:20:33 PM EDT
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I see kids in Tallinn wearing Canada Goose and Parajumpers coats and they're about 20% more than in the States. I know this as my SO bought one of the stupid things when we went to Kittery Trading Post in Maine and was femsplaining how it was a great bargain. They'll be passé in another year but whatever. I'm going to assume that XX% of them are now fakes at any rate,no doubt one could buy them in bulk from AliExpress.
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Posted: 11/16/2018 6:22:45 PM EDT
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Holy shit! $ 1200 winter jackets for school kids That article is insane! "poverty proofing" includes not allowing teachers to ask what kids did on the weekend so "poor kids whose parents don't do shit with them won't feel bad" WTF I have an 18 year old trainee working with me. He proudly showed me his 900something Dollar T-SHIRT 
I kid you not...a frigging T-SHIRT for over 900 Dollars. Did not even look a bit better than my 5.99 shirts. |
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Posted: 11/16/2018 6:29:30 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: LOL I have an 18 year old trainee working with me. He proudly showed me his 900something Dollar T-SHIRT
I kid you not...a frigging T-SHIRT for over 900 Dollars. Did not even look a bit better than my 5.99 shirts. |
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Posted: 11/16/2018 6:32:12 PM EDT
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Fuck those assholes. Fuck the school. I'd sue the shit out of them.
Parents aren't equal. Clothing manufacturers aren't equal. Banning clothing because "it's more expensive than this jacket" is fucking stupid. Who comes up with this shit? Guess what kids? This is REAL LIFE. Your parents have a shit job(s) and don't make as much as other parents. This is CALLED LIFE. Instead of preparing you for real life, we're going to pretend for 12 years that everyone is equal and life is fair. Totally not preparing you for the real world and how it works. The school principal should be fired (er, sacked as they say) and anyone tied to this stupid policy should be fired as well. This isn't social fucking engineering---this is education. Teach the fucking kids and do your fucking job. Don't try to inject your stupid brand of politics into my kid's fucking winter closet or wardrobe. Fucking idiots. |
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Posted: 11/16/2018 6:34:28 PM EDT
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Considering that the average hoodrat kid here in the US is probably wearing $500+ worth of clothes/shoes and carrying $1,000 worth of electronics at any given time, any attempt to do that here would be deemed racist.
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Posted: 11/16/2018 6:34:41 PM EDT
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I am still permanently scarred because I had to wear Keds and generic shoes instead of the low black Converse All-Stars and Bass Weejuns all the cool kids wore.
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Posted: 11/16/2018 6:36:00 PM EDT
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Did they ban Arc'teryx?
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Posted: 11/16/2018 6:36:43 PM EDT
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What are poor kids doing in the rich kid schools?
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Posted: 11/16/2018 6:38:15 PM EDT
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$ 900 t shirt? I hate to sound naive but can that be true? |
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Posted: 11/16/2018 6:41:53 PM EDT
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We had similar rules at my private school in elementary and went to uniforms at the new school in middle school. The idea is to discourage distractions from learning. We rich kids didnt have a problem with it. Incidentally, it was the poor kids pushing the limits. Guess they were just bad with money.
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Posted: 11/16/2018 6:41:55 PM EDT
[#29]
I have a need to buy Canada Goose and Moncler coats.
I will probably never use them, but they will look awesome in my closet. |
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Posted: 11/16/2018 6:41:55 PM EDT
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When I was a kid and we were broke as fuck, the entire family living in a 1BR apartment eating Ramen Noodles every day for dinner, I didn't really give two shits what other people wore.  Attached File |
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Posted: 11/16/2018 6:46:09 PM EDT
[#31]
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Holy shit! $ 1200 winter jackets for school kids That article is insane! "poverty proofing" includes not allowing teachers to ask what kids did on the weekend so "poor kids whose parents don't do shit with them won't feel bad" WTF You see liberals hold up places like my country as examples but the Dutch school system is rather well segregated and the poor kids are quite litteraly being poor someware else. |
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Posted: 11/16/2018 6:46:15 PM EDT
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Did they ban Arc'teryx? |
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Posted: 11/16/2018 6:49:13 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Yep >$1000 winter jackets it's a thing here in schools. You see liberals hold up places like my country as examples but the Dutch school system is rather well segregated and the poor kids are quite litteraly being poor someware else.  Attached File |
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Posted: 11/16/2018 6:50:37 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Yep >$1000 winter jackets it's a thing here in schools. You see liberals hold up places like my country as examples but the Dutch school system is rather well segregated and the poor kids are quite litteraly being poor someware else. |
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Posted: 11/16/2018 6:51:13 PM EDT
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Holy shit! $ 1200 winter jackets for school kids That article is insane! "poverty proofing" includes not allowing teachers to ask what kids did on the weekend so "poor kids whose parents don't do shit with them won't feel bad" WTF My mother came in with pictures of me and my dad on the cutter. My mom was a goddamned samurai with that length of orange Hot Wheels track, but she didn't take shit off of other adults when it came to her kids. |
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Posted: 11/16/2018 6:52:40 PM EDT
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If one kid has to be cold, they all should be cold! |
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Posted: 11/16/2018 6:55:11 PM EDT
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$ 900 t shirt? I hate to sound naive but can that be true? |
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Posted: 11/16/2018 6:56:12 PM EDT
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Yep >$1000 winter jackets it's a thing here in schools. You see liberals hold up places like my country as examples but the Dutch school system is rather well segregated and the poor kids are quite litteraly being poor someware else. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Holy shit! $ 1200 winter jackets for school kids That article is insane! "poverty proofing" includes not allowing teachers to ask what kids did on the weekend so "poor kids whose parents don't do shit with them won't feel bad" WTF You see liberals hold up places like my country as examples but the Dutch school system is rather well segregated and the poor kids are quite litteraly being poor someware else. |
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Posted: 11/16/2018 6:56:34 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Oh I'm sure this only applies to "certain" students. I would find it extremely hard to believe a UK public school would scold or force any "POC" to wear or not wear something. They spend lots of money on things they can't afford inorder to maintain street cred (and make sure their kids maintain street cred)... Then the kids don't have food in the house. |
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Posted: 11/16/2018 6:56:52 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I had my 3rd grade teacher write a note home to my mother. The teacher asked us to write a paper on what we did that Father's Day. I wrote, "I rode around on a Coast Guard cutter." The teacher wrote that I was being my usual little smart ass self. My mother came in with pictures of me and my dad on the cutter. My mom was a goddamned samurai with that length of orange Hot Wheels track, but she didn't take shit off of other adults when it came to her kids. |
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Posted: 11/16/2018 6:59:02 PM EDT
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Holy shit! $ 1200 winter jackets for school kids |
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Posted: 11/16/2018 7:58:08 PM EDT
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They spend lots of money on things they can't afford inorder to maintain street cred (and make sure their kids maintain street cred)... |
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Posted: 11/16/2018 8:22:08 PM EDT
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Upstate NY is like that. We have excellent suburban school systems, rural schools that are mix of okay and horrible methbilly bad and urban schools which suck. Quote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted: Yep >$1000 winter jackets it's a thing here in schools. You see liberals hold up places like my country as examples but the Dutch school system is rather well segregated and the poor kids are quite litteraly being poor someware else. Honestly most of the shitheads seemed to be the nuevo rich punkass kids that were trying to prove they were hard core. More often than not they were from somewhere in the north east. Occasionally they would inadvertently have a run in with a kid that was hardcore and get introduced to reality . Homie from Hialeah don't give a shit what burrough you are from. 
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Posted: 11/16/2018 8:50:58 PM EDT
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My school days in England, back when we had to walk uphill through 10’ of snow, both ways, dodging dinosaurs, pretty much every school required school uniform. One of the primary reasons given was to make everyone equall and hide family income disparity.
Well, the school uniform shops all had at least two varieties of the more expensive items like jackets and trousers (or skirts). One cheap material that looked scruffy about a week after buying it, and another made with much better quality material that would easily last a year and still look good. Then there were the school meals. It was obvious who took their dinner money for the week up to the teacher, and who didn’t, but got to eat anyway. The one unifying thing was that we all pretty much hated having to wear a uniform. |
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Posted: 11/16/2018 8:57:03 PM EDT
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I wish my school would have done that with Member's Only jackets. I never had one.
Those epaulets were so cool. |
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Posted: 11/16/2018 8:57:39 PM EDT
[#46]
Yeah...good luck with that.
"It was gifted down to us second-hand by our neighbour because we're too poor to afford a coat, Sir. It's the only coat I've got, and my single mum cannot afford another." |
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Posted: 11/16/2018 9:11:29 PM EDT
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I'd be sorely tempted to go full Westerosi and send my kid to school in a full on wolf's fur cloak
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Posted: 11/16/2018 9:14:21 PM EDT
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Yes let's not teach kids to deal with jealousy and disappointment. That'll work out well when they get into the real world. |
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Posted: 11/16/2018 9:17:02 PM EDT
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My mom was a goddamned samurai with that length of orange Hot Wheels track, but she didn't take shit off of other adults when it came to her kids. All I got was a beating with a 99¢ flyswatter from Food Lion. I'll GBPSE 
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Posted: 11/16/2018 9:22:15 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Rich kids got beaten with Hot Wheels track. All I got was a beating with a 99¢ flyswatter from Food Lion. I'll GBPSE |
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