I'm English and live in Sydney, Australia now, so I've always lived where all the kids have uniforms. I didn't like having to wear a tie and would have preferred trousers but never minded wearing a uniform, just the one I had! Now, anti-discrimination laws mean that if trousers are on the school uniform list for boys, it's illegal to force girls to wear a skirt in co-ed schools, so that's an improvement. Of course, all the high schools round my area are single sex (private and state) so that doesn't really work.

As a mother, I'm absolutely delighted about school uniforms. It makes life so much easier. No arguments about clothing, jewellery and make up for those parents of girls who care about such things. And as a mother of a teenage girl with Asperger's, I don't have to worry about her being bullied because of her weird dress sense or try to make her wear clothes and would enable her to fit in better.