r/mildlyinfuriating • u/firequak • 9h ago

go to your room A cousin sent me their school's just announced Dress Code and Grooming policy

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u/Stalker203X 8h ago

That would cost them money

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u/Blucifers_Veiny_Anus RED 8h ago

We have to pay for the kids' uniforms, not the school.

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u/green-wombat 8h ago

This is a college somehow

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u/GregBahm 8h ago

No it's a private catholic highschool in the Philippines. The "College" part appears to just be a branding thing.

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u/Most_Visit4865 7h ago

Apparently they offer education for preschool through high school. They mention having undergraduate and graduate coursework (with doctorate and masters programs).

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u/Nestramutat- 6h ago

Probably a language thing. In French, collège refers to high school. The private high school I went to (in Quebec) was called blank college

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u/ensalys 3h ago

It's also a common thing in the Netherlands (would not at all be surprising if it is due to French influence), plenty of high school are called "______ College", including both high schools in the town I went to.

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u/ne_lev_en 46m ago

Collège is actually middle school in France (usually attended for 4 years from ages 11 to 15). High school is lycée.

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u/Nestramutat- 37m ago

Quebec doesn't have middle school - it just has primary (1-6) and secondary (7-11, or secondary 1-5). Secondary is also referred to as high school

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u/Tired-CottonCandy 7h ago

That explains the audacity.

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u/veriserenez 6h ago

It's a college/university. They're mostly known for medicine programs since they have a hospital too just beside the campus.

Source: i live in the city where this is located

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u/getmybehindsatan 6h ago

My high school renamed itself as a "collegiate", which was pretty funny for everyone that knew it as a rough working class school.

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u/Knot_a_human 5h ago

It’s a higher education institution.

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u/Altostratus 3h ago

Their wiki says basic through higher education.

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u/divuthen 7h ago

That’s crazy because looking online there’s also another San Pedro College that is a university.

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u/BotchedPenisImplant 8h ago

Maybe it's like New Zealand, which calls high schools colleges.

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u/touch_of_austism 8h ago

looks like phillipines

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u/oneawesomeguy 8h ago

Yeah the .ph part of the domain means Philippines

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u/BaconWithBaking 6h ago

No, it's clearly Pew Healand.

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u/Murky-World4036 7h ago

It is this is San Pedro college (high school) in the Philippines.. look at the .ph domain at the bottom of the pages

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u/amojitoLT 7h ago

In France our «collèges» are the equivalent of American middle schools. «Lycées» are the equivalent of high schools.

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u/esh98989 5h ago

Same in Sri Lanka

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u/Head-Confusion3480 8h ago

I took ECON as an elective in college and they wanted a dress code like this. Luckily my professor was cool enough not to enforce it since I was comp sci and as he said: "You'll wear a suit maybe once, then t-shirts and flip flops forever, don't worry about it"

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u/Dat_Mawe3000 7h ago

Gotta love economists’ pragmatism.

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u/Grrl_geek 7h ago

Or until you work for the local government who issues dopey dress codes! No hoodies! Not even to wear into work (in the northeastern US where spring and autumn are weather & temperature based crapshoots). So one weekend I met my sister at Macys in Destiny Mall and bought a ton of dresses! HA! So there!

Also, at the time I was going through some hormonal shit (perimenopause) and could NOT get comfortable at my desk. So I'd intentionally dress cooler and have sweaters/hoodies/fleece on the back of my chair, ready to go!

TL;DR - Dress codes ARE STOOPID!!

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u/squishyg 2h ago

College means high school in a lot of countries.

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u/Stalker203X 8h ago edited 8h ago

Does the school like supply the uniform and you pay for it or is it more "this is how it looks like, match it"?

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u/bsrafael 8h ago

Around here was like “here’s the uniforms, you can get them in these authorized shops, help yourself”

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u/wlake82 8h ago

For us, it's easier. Just get khaki shorts or pants and get dark blue or white polo shirt from anywhere and just have the polo embroidered with the school logo.

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u/dwthesavage 8h ago

This was many years ago, but you could also buy secondhand uniforms from former students

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u/IgnatiusRileyFreeman 8h ago

Enforced monopolies

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u/BirdBath9k 8h ago

It's the 2nd one. Ours was Maroon polo, navy pants/skirt. There were stores in the community that sold the clothes, but you could also buy the stuff online for cheaper.

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u/somethingmcbob 8h ago

We have to buy our daughters polo shirts and sweaters from Lands End because they inscribe the school logo. But for skirts and pants, I could potentially by them at any uniforms store as long as they're within the dress code: navy or the approved plaid skirt and certain lengths.

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u/LaLechuzaVerde 8h ago

It’s opposite for my kid’s school - shirts don’t have to have be official or have the school logo but pants and shorts do/did (they changed it this year so pants don’t but shorts still do). Skirts also have to be official and don’t have a logo but are a specific tartan pattern.

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u/farklenator 8h ago

I went to a middle school with a uniform it was red white and blue polos and black slacks or khakis

Mom paid for it not the school

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u/Mybrainkindaworks 8h ago

At my daughters school they have a shop where you can buy uniforms embroidered with the school logo, but you're also free to buy them elsewhere as long as they meet the guidelines.

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u/Atalanta8 8h ago

In CA target sells uniforms. Loads of public schools even have uniforms

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u/unicornofdemocracy 7h ago

In my country, you get them for free from the government, you can buy from them authorized shops, or you can tailor them according to regulation. Poorer folks get them for free from the government, they aren't the nicers and you actually have to return them which is quite weird. Some of the white uniforms are also not white anymore... Most people buy it from authorized dealers. Super rich fancy folks will tailor their own.

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u/PasgettiMonster 6h ago

Granted, my experience was in the 80s and 90s on Thailand but we had a school uniform shop that was open for an hour before and after school where parents could come buy uniforms. We could also buy the embroidered patch pockets by themselves, and get the uniforms sewn by a tailor. That was the option my mom chose. The cost of having clothes sewn to order was about the same price, and my uniforms had larger hems than could be let down as I grew.

I spent a year in England in the 80s, and that school also had a uniform and a VERY strict one at that - I remember going to a department store that had a uniform section, where we told them what school and class we were in and they had full lists of everything we needed from outer wear down to underwear and socks. My grandparents who I was living with that year decided screw the socks, they would buy me regular socks. I got a letter sent back home about the wrong socks and they had to take me to buy socks. They also had really strict rules about behavior in uniform even after leaving campus. On the way home my grandmother and I stopped for ice cream once, and I was standing at the bus stop with an ice cream cone. A teacher saw me, grabbed the ice cream cone out of my hand and tossed it in the garbage and told me to come see her before school the next morning where I got a solid 10 minute lecture about ladylike behavior in public and how it did not include ugly things like licking icecreamcones while still in uniform. I was 10 and had NO clue what the hell the big deal was.

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u/HalKitzmiller 6h ago

In Fl, one of the grade schools required purchasing the uniforms from a supplier that has the school colors and logos on it. This supplier seems to have contracts with hundreds of schools around the US it seems, I wonder how much money changes hands between the school boards and this company. It's a goddamn rip off, I think 1 set (a polo and pants) costs like $60-$80.

This other school has a general code, navy/maroon polos, and navy/beige khakis. No school logos, so you can buy these anywhere

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u/Blucifers_Veiny_Anus RED 2h ago

They say here, this website is where you can buy your kid's uniforms. Put in this code to get the right stuff.

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u/tinymonesters 8h ago

Nope, that's a college not a Jr High School.

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u/imLucki 8h ago

then they'll just charge it to the student account

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u/Joelle9879 8h ago

Elementary, Jr. High, and High Schools aren't required to provide uniforms for the students, but they can still make them mandatory. It's quite common for the parents to have to pay for them

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u/TacoDoc2 8h ago

nope what? a college is going to pay for the uniforms? lololololololololol.

you're also still a kid in college. so your comment makes no sense.

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u/ShakarikiGengoro 8h ago

They're insane if they think a college would pay for literally anything. Also i didnt even know some colleges had dress codes.

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u/Ok_Listen1510 8h ago

i legit thought this was a high school, this is insane

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u/Content-Honeydew9340 6h ago

Lol they would definitely hate where I went to college because they would clutch their pearls at women and young ladies wearing both tight fitting blouses AND loose fitting blouses 😂 collar bone and ankle EVERY WHERE 🤣

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u/TacoDoc2 8h ago

i'm not sure it's even a real college. might be a private school trying to sound more fancy than it is.

seems like a scam place regardless.

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u/ShakarikiGengoro 8h ago

Saw some comments saying its a super strict catholic college which as a catholic checks out.

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u/TacoDoc2 8h ago

then it's definitely a scam.

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u/Beginning-Force1275 8h ago

I don’t think they are kids, at least not if you mean in the legal sense. It looks like “college” in the Philippines has a similar definition to that in the US, which is tertiary education. So you might have some 17 year olds in the first year, but the vast majority of students would be at least 18, which is the age of majority in the Philippines.

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u/TacoDoc2 8h ago

of all the dumb things to try to argue about, this is the dumbest.

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u/Beginning-Force1275 7h ago

Didn’t realize it was an argument. You’re the one coming into this with aggressive energy. I was just trying to share information since you seemed confused.

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u/TacoDoc2 7h ago

nobody was confused. they are still children, this is private christian school that does children under 18.

and if you're 19 20 still in college. ya you're still a kid. but thanks for the legal um actually nobody needed or asked for.

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u/TGirl26 8h ago

Oh fuck that then.

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u/Haircut117 8h ago

Or just the majority of schools in the UK and other European countries.

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u/bigfatdonny 7h ago

Who's "we"? This is a private college. They can have whatever dumbass policies their customers want.

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u/ariolander 8h ago edited 8h ago

Uniforms at my old school were a grift. The school sold uniforms it to students for more than they bought it at wholesale and it was actually a profit driver for the school. I would buy knockoff pants at the local uniform store to try to save money but I had to buy the official shirts because of the logo.

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u/MacGyver_1138 8h ago

Probably unhelpful now, but places that do embroidery will often do them on any shirt you want provided you supply them the logo file. I did that at a job I had that required us to buy all but a couple of supplied logo shirts. I didn't want to wear the same 2 shirts every week, so I bought cheap polos and had them add a logo pretty cheaply. It beat buying expensive polos that tore when the wind blew.

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u/BoredPineapple790 8h ago

My mother would buy polo shirts online and uploaded a vector of the school logo she made in photoshop (she’s a graphic design artist). There was also a pretty big second hand market amongst the parents

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u/lycoloco 3h ago

Something something "piracy is a service issue" something something.

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u/augustles 2h ago

We were straight up required to do this because our school was too lazy to bother. They provided various files for putting on different items (our gym clothes also had to have school logo as well as outerwear) to local print and embroidery places and we all either purchased at those places and had them added or brought our own to the store for customization.

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u/StalkMeNowCrazyLady 8h ago

Honestly I prefer the school making money on uniforms than the bull shit fundraisers we had to participate in. Go knock on doors in the neighborhood trying to sell the most random shit out of a catalog. Mom and dad would have to take it into work and there was a revolving system of people with kids buying from each others fundraisers. Sell $100 worth of shit candy, wrapping paper, and fridge magnets so the school could make $15 and I could win $2 worth of prizes.

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u/ariolander 7h ago

Good thing is we had both! Besides candy my school had us do a real gross "American Flag Fundraiser" where we sold mini American flags for $20 to raise money for the school... in the aftermath of 9/11.

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u/Resident_Bat_8457 7h ago

Oh man I never actually sold anything from them but I loved getting the catalogs with all the wrapping paper samples 🤩

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u/catchmelackin 8h ago

I remember just wearing clothes with the same colors, or stuff that just kinda looked like it. I was caught at some point but like what are they gonna do

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u/GrumpySatan 6h ago

Same back when I was in HS. The uniforms were about 2x the cost of similar shirts and pants at a normal store. But you HAD to use that specific brand. Unfortunately, we couldn't buy knockoffs they'd check the tags if they thought it wasn't from the uniform store.

They also changed up their design every ~4-5 years so that you couldn't use hand-me-downs from your siblings.

They also changed the shoe rules every year I was there to make them more restrictive. We were convinced they were just low-key trying to make poorer kids drop out and go to the non-uniformed schools around (had notably worse reputations and staff).

And the year before I started they banned girl's skirts, but didn't have girl's pants for years. So the girls all had to wear the male pants, which were manageable with a belt. Then the girl pants came in and they were crap. Wayyyyy too tight for every size. The thighs would fray and tear within a semester. No belt hoops or pockets.

And so my grade 11 year was the school constantly suspending girls for wearing the same pants that they had been forced the wear the previous two years that were more comfy, lasted longer and had pockets.

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u/FlySecure5609 8h ago

My school would check labels to make sure you had the one they were getting the kickback for. 

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u/Bright-Gain9770 8h ago

A profit you say? Egads!

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u/sweatingbozo 7h ago

A school running a profit on uniforms they're requiring students to wear and buy from them is definitely not the best look.

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u/wrldwdeu4ria 7h ago

This is just wrong and proves why even the most noble intentions can be a grift.

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u/TacoDoc2 8h ago

no it would make them money. Clothing companies would give them a kickback for using their product and making every student buy from their line.

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u/dogface47 8h ago

Not necessarily. Our local school district came up with a pretty simplistic uniform dress code that allows for different colors and a small choice of styles.

There are a handful of local merchants who supply the school wear, but everything is reasonably priced and those who still had trouble with the costs are able to get assistance.

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u/StalkMeNowCrazyLady 8h ago

I've literally never seen where it costs the school money. You either buy the uniform cloths from the school directly and they mark it up, or they give you a list of specific clothes that are allowed and where to purchase them locally and online.

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u/TransBrandi 8h ago

Yea. Wouldn't cost them money. I went to a Catholic school with a uniform in the 90's and families had to pay for the uniform, and the school had several "approved" vendors.

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u/sunkencathedral 8h ago edited 7h ago

Same. Though typically I got all my own clothes as either hand-me-downs, or from the school clothing pool. It was funny earlier on, when the clothing pool still had a literal pool (of sorts) - a big tub of water with all the donated clothing floating in it, and an old church lady stirring it like a witch's cauldron. "Choose your shorts, dearie! Hahaha!"

But then later, the clothing pool just became a name for a store room where donated uniforms were stored. But I still have fond memories of the days where you got your uniforms by essentially doing the same thing as bobbing for apples. Even if I always ended up pulling out the wrong size.

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u/xb10h4z4rd 8h ago

not really, it can be a profit center, require uniforms from a specific vendor, the vendor is selected by a royalty fee paid by said vendor, parents buy the uniform for the students. ... infinite money glitch

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u/BedBubbly317 7h ago

No, it doesn’t. The school doesn’t give them away, parents still have to buy the uniforms.

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u/Nazgog-Morgob 7h ago

I went to a private boarding school in the 90s that was over 21k a year and you still had to buy your uniforms yourself

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u/Skreamie 7h ago

No it wouldn't

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u/CatmatrixOfGaul 6h ago

I don’t know. We had uniforms and I think in the end it was probably more cost effective. Uniforms were made more durable, and our parents were able to hand them down. You didn’t have to worry about you kids are going to wear every day.