Teachers given cane go-ahead at Christian College11

For a lot of schools, the issue is that they believe their students would simply refuse to wear them. Schools where discipline is already a problem don’t want to start another battle with the students that failure to win would simply further undermine discipline. For other schools (mine included) we’re pretty confident we could persuade our students to wear hats (although we’re not sure we’d like the extra tension that might create), but our question is what type of hats to introduce. The hats that kids are more likely to tolerate wearing easily are fairly modern, fairly casual designs that most definitely do not go with our traditional uniforms. But going back to the old style of hats – well, frankly, even a traditionalist like myself thinks they’d be slightly over the top. And then there are other issues – children who ride bikes to school need to wear helmets, nowadays – they didn’t have to last time we had school hats.