Chilean School Uniform: Symbol of the class Discrimination

In Chile, There's a breaching school uniform policy ¿Why?

In Chile, School Uniform is required in public, subsidied and private school (kindergaten to 12th grades). The wearing of this uniform is required from early 40s and has been evolving until nowadays. but What's kind of evolving has it had? L

et's analyse that.

In Public schools, There's the same uniform as each other (most of them)

Girl: White blouse, personalized tie (according to the school), black jumper, black jacket, black or navy socks and black school shoes.

Boy: White shirt, personalized tie (according to the school), black smoking or jacket, gris school pants, any belt and bkacl school shoes.

The greatest question ¿Where and when do students get those uniforms?

chilean families have to buy them because government doesn't give. let's analyse how much

A Girl's totality school uniform may cost until about US$292 (including schoolbag)

A Boy's totality school uniform may cost until about US$167 (including schoolbag)

But most of students re-wear the same school uniform (partiality or totality) years by years, so Families save more money and spend more money for the summer vacation, christmas and HPN's eve!!!

In Subsidied and Private schools, School uniform are very personalized according to the school (most of them)

The price of the totality or partiality of the school uniform is the same as public school,but a little expensive, but what do subsidied and private schools focus on the most?

Most of those focus on the personal presentation of the students.

Girls: entire tied hair, no make up, no accesories, no dyed hair and obviously tidy all school uniform

Boys: SHORT HAIR or bald too, no fantasy comb, no dyed hair, no accessories, no mustache and beard and tidy all school uniform obviously.

The problem is THE ECONOMICAL PART why?

Because there's family, whose children study in a public school which have to replace the vacation of their dreams by buying school uniform's partiality or totality because of how expensive it is, this problem is also had by families whose children study in a subsidied school, because the school uniform that Subsidied and private schools provide is more expensive than public school and you know that in subsidied school, there're students from middle-and-lowest-class families and most of them don't have money to buy school uniform like those.

Could you think there're families which have to replace the christmas present by school uniform and school gadgets too (copybooks, pencils, etc.)?

That's the reality of Chilean education way

Thanks.