‘It’s ridiculous!’ Londoners on school uniform prices

Londoners have their say on rising costs.

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00:00Hard to have an opinion on that really. It depends what's necessary, uniforms are necessary,

00:08but is there any flexibility with the schools in what the kids wear to school? Does it have to be

00:15the branded uniforms? I think they're looking at relaxing the rules on that so kids can afford

00:22more cheaper kind of generic uniform clothing so I think that's a positive thing. Well I think 40 to 60

00:31pounds for a school blazer is ridiculous and they throw it out of them within a year so yeah and

00:36things like that. But then you can go to places like Asta and you can pick up a uniform like 20

00:43quid like back in the day but it's those schools that insist on having the badges, why can't they

00:50just sell the badges and we can get a second hand blazer from wherever, you know? That's what we do.