Parents react to students wearing 3 uniforms per week, school must stop

A reader who is a parent reported that this person's child is a student at Ly Tu Trong Primary School in Ea Drang Commune ( Dak Lak Province). For 3 years, the school has changed the uniform every year, at a cost of 160,000 VND/set.

Students have to wear 3 types of uniforms a week.

Speaking to reporters, parents of students at this school specifically stated: In addition to blue pants, white shirts and gym uniforms, students must also wear colored polo shirts. In the 2023-2024 school year, the school requires yellow shirts (no logo).

In the 2024-2025 school year, the school will change to orange shirts with white collars and logos.

By the 2025-2026 school year, the school will continue to announce a change to green shirts and a schedule for wearing them: green shirts on Monday and Wednesday; orange shirts on Tuesday and Thursday, and white, green or orange shirts on Friday.

"We agree that adding a logo makes it easier to identify which school students come from, but changing the color every year just seems like a waste.

Not to mention, the school requires that you wear different types of uniforms during the week, making things even more confusing. Parents have to remember what color their children wear every day, and their children are afraid that if they wear the wrong uniform, they will be scolded," said one parent.

Another parent suggested: "We agree to buy uniforms for our children, but we should only maintain one main color like the previous orange shirt.

Every year as students grow older, uniforms also need to be changed. Just the rule of wearing white shirt - blue/black pants on Mondays and wearing the official school uniform on the remaining days is enough, neat and consistent.

What did the principal explain?

On August 25, Mr. Nguyen Tran Quan - principal of Ly Tu Trong Primary School - admitted that the school had many uniforms at the same time as parents reported.

But he said that in the 2023-2024 school year, the school only requires students to wear blue pants and a white shirt as their uniform, but the parents' association proposed adding a colored shirt to change during the week.

The school allows it but does not consider it a uniform because there is no logo and parents buy yellow uniforms.

By 2024-2025, the school will choose orange shirts, which are more prominent and have a logo to create a unique mark for the school's students. At that time, the school will only have one uniform, orange shirts, and will be required to be worn on certain days.

At the end of the last school year, the school planned to switch to green shirts to create a more prominent image in the 2025-2026 school year, so it announced it to class groups and parents for discussion.

"However, many opposing opinions have been raised, disagreeing with the addition of uniforms. This is just a plan, the school does not require parents to change the uniform. If parents do not agree, we will not implement it," Mr. Quan affirmed.