{"id":103461,"date":"2022-09-08T10:59:41","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T10:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/voices-i-m-a-teacher-and-i-know-that-the-government-s-new-school-uniform-law-is-mere-window-dressing"},"modified":"2022-09-08T10:59:41","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T10:59:41","slug":"voices-i-m-a-teacher-and-i-know-that-the-government-s-new-school-uniform-law-is-mere-window-dressing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/voices-i-m-a-teacher-and-i-know-that-the-government-s-new-school-uniform-law-is-mere-window-dressing","title":{"rendered":"Voices: I&#8217;m a teacher &#8211; and I know that the government&#8217;s new school uniform law is mere window dressing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The topic of school uniforms is often a divisive one. While most students I&#8217;ve taught would rather be learning in a hoodie and trainers than a stiff blazer and suffocating tie, both the teacher and the mum in me recognise the need to level the playing field as much as possible for the children whose poverty would be exposed by everyone else&#8217;s designer gear. School uniforms have appeared frequently in the news lately because the government has unveiled a new law designed to limit the cost for families struggling to cope in the current economic climate. The law mandates that schools keep branded items to a minimum and that second-hand options must be made available. In the words of the chancellor, school uniform should &#8220;never be a burden&#8221; to parents. But this wishy-washy policy, which might sound impressive at first hearing, doesn&#8217;t go far enough to provide the sort of support families actually need. I&#8217;ve been on enough school trips<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The topic of school uniforms is often a divisive one. While most students I&#8217;ve taught would rather be learning in a hoodie and trainers than a stiff blazer and suffocating<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,1],"tags":[96],"class_list":["post-103461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-news","tag-education"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}