• thehatfox@lemmy.worldOP
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    5 months ago

    I didnt realise how rich some of my friends were until I went to their house. The uniform made us all equals in the classroom

    Uniforms have never done that in my experience, because there are plenty of wealth signifiers outside of uniforms kids will still notice (pencil cases, bags, PE trainers, mobile phones etc), and even the uniforms themselves are not worn equally. The rich kids have clean uniforms that get regular replaced each term, the poor ones had dirty and ill fitting hand-me-downs.

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      5 months ago

      Yes but these will be minor differences (check out my clean school mandated tennis shoes) as opposed to major ones (check out my £3,000 nikes)

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          5 months ago

          i cant either, but my 16 year old material obsessed cousin definitely can, and he’s way more representative of the population than I am