Whether a strict uniform would stop bullying over clothes. A parent describes her daughter being bullied over the wrong trainers, a student calls the whole thing stupid, and a Scottish study shows who suffers most.
The argument about school uniform is usually run on tradition and smartness. This video runs it on money: a study in Scotland found that children from the poorest families take the worst of the bullying, because their parents cannot buy the jeans, trainers and coats that the year group has decided matter. Harriet Macdonald describes her daughter being bullied over a brand of trainers; David Marsh, who wears the labels himself, says the whole thing is stupid.
The problem is sharpest in schools without a uniform, but the video is honest that uniform schools have their own version of it - coats, bags, PE kit. That is what makes it usable: the question at the end has no settled answer, so a B1-B2 class has something to argue about, with the vocabulary of fashion, peer pressure and money already supplied.