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Ahhhhh. Uniform for A-Levels.
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My bf told me this morning that next year, my school is going to be issuing uniform for the sixth form aswell, consisting of t-shirts and tracksuits. I really don't know if this is a wind up - he's already in upper-sixth, and has to wear a tracksuit, but thats because he's doing a sports-science qualification. Plus this is the first I've heard of it.
It sounds pretty stupid if it's true - because surely when you're doing your A-Levels, school is no longer compulsory, and they can't really make you do anything, except kick you off your course if you don't turn up. And I'm doing kinda arty-farty intellectual subjects - Art, R.E., Eng Lang and Psychology - why would I need a tracksuit, for goodness sake.
If this isn't a wind-up, do you lot reckon I could be kicked out for not wearing this stuff? It's making me want to change colleges - I've had enough of uniform.
It sounds pretty stupid if it's true - because surely when you're doing your A-Levels, school is no longer compulsory, and they can't really make you do anything, except kick you off your course if you don't turn up. And I'm doing kinda arty-farty intellectual subjects - Art, R.E., Eng Lang and Psychology - why would I need a tracksuit, for goodness sake.
If this isn't a wind-up, do you lot reckon I could be kicked out for not wearing this stuff? It's making me want to change colleges - I've had enough of uniform.
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just because you chose to attend their institution, doesnt mean you automatically get the right to wear whatever you want, that right is given to you by them
This is a fair point actually.
As for tracksuits - it would depend on what A levels you were taking. I mean, you wouldn't exactly turn up in jeans to do PE, would you?
They can insist on a dress code, but I think your bf is winding you up.
Seriously?
Even if you didn't have to wear a uniform, there would probably be times when you'd had to wear certain stuff anyway, like when doing PE or sports stuff.
And like it has already mentioned, even if there wasn't a uniform, there'd be some form of dress code.
And when you go for the course checks (just after you get your exam results) they should explain the uniform/dress cord to you - this is what they did with me anyway.
if you took a job, its not compulsory, but there may still well be a dress code, and you have to adhere to it. thats how it goes im afraid.
Why would it be unfair? Maybe they just realised that they need to introduce a uniform or at least have a very strict dress code.
I know a few schools where suits were mandatory through Sixth Form like Rich mentioned. I wouldn't have liked that at all, ha ha ha.
why shouldn't they have to wear a uniform?
my sister had to wear a suit to her 6th form.
they got a different coloured kilt in the 6th form though.
Why should they? It's not as if 6th form is compulsary, is it?
why does that make a difference?
exactly.
work isn't compulsory either, yet many of us have a uniform of some description.
and whats with having no study leave, does that mean you have to be in school from 9-3.30 everyday throughout the 6th form including the summer term?? i would go to college if i were you.
I guess it depends where you are. At the school I attend, we're allowed to go home but have to be in morning & afternoon registration, unless we're at another school for our lessons. If I was allowed, I wouldn't come in on a Monday at all because I have no lessons all day. Because we have to be in registration, I end up hanging around until 2.05pm.
IIRC, at my school they are thinking of making it so that we're not allowed to sign during the day, which would be rubbish, tbh.
We technically had to remain in school during our free periods but i rarely did cos i lived so close.
and they'll probably still moan if we do better again :rolleyes:
in 6th form you could go home when you didnt have lessons etc. either everythings changed very recently, or Hertfordshire schools are very relaxed