This week I have had cause to interact with a bunch of very smart school kids for a gifted and talented programme run by the University for which I work. These folk were all in the first year of their HSC, so all seventeen this academic year. Why I am telling you this. Well, you should see the uniforms these poor buggers have to wear!
We live near a busy rail station and since loads of Sydney school kids commute across the city to go to their schools I’ve seen plenty of uniforms. Now, I thought the uniforms were just imposed on them up to the age of 16, but it turns out they send 17 year old boys to do the equivalent of A-Levels in knee length shorts, virgin socks, and a Straw Boater! FFS!
When I did my A-levels, I went to school in army surplus and think I would have forgone further and higher education had I been made to wear what these guys do. Imagine having to dress like Don Estelle from “It Ain’t Half Hot Mum” but with a boater instead of a pith helmet. Sod that. And my wife (who went to a school in U.K. where pretty disgusting uniforms were compulsory even at A-Level) describes lots of the girls uniforms as “designed by paedophiles”. I’m not posting pictures, but I think she’s right.
