The school gate pyjama row shows how difficult it is for schools to set boundaries: but dressing properly sends a key message to children – and teachersHow long does it take you to procure dressed in the mornings? Nothing fancy,obviously; just clothed in the first thing picked up off the floor. Five minutes? Ten at a push, counting a rapid/fast depart with the hairbrush and the useless hunt for a pair of tights that isn’t laddered?Anyone with small children has had mornings when even five minutes seems too much to ask: mornings when someone’s PE kit is lost, and someone else spills cereal down their last clean jumper,and the cat throws up, and the car doesn’t start.
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Source: theguardian.com