Poll: Are school uniforms too expensive? <\/p>\n
TAOISEACH ENDA KENNY and Education Minister Richard Bruton today launched the 2017 Action Plan for Education. <\/p>\n
Speaking at Scoile Mhuire Ogh in Dublin, the minister said new guidelines will be issued to schools on how they can cut costs for parents. <\/p>\n
Bruton said parents are to be given more power when it comes to decisions that cost them money, focusing primarily on the cost of books and uniforms. <\/p>\n
We have rolled out a parent and student charter and part of that is that parents will be intimately involved in decisions that are made that impact those costs. I think it is very important that we have parents involved in those decisions. <\/p>\n
Its understood that under these measures, parents will get a say in whether a school should have a uniform, whether the school uniform should be specially made or if the uniform should be more generic, with the option to iron school crests on to jumpers. <\/p>\n
Its also believed that competition is to be promoted, whereby the contract for the company supplying the school uniform should be put out for tender every three years or so. <\/p>\n
What do you think? <\/p>\n
Poll: Are childrens school uniforms too expensive?<\/p>\n
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