Safari suits ...

I am a little bit concerned as to what is in store for us in school next year. I am starting to wonder whether the school is about to relocate to under the proverbial tree that people are convinced is my classroom. What has sparked this concern? The new uniform – and it is not pretty. I am not sure whether we are going to be going on safari 1920s style or whether they are trying to shape up our students to recolonise Uganda. It is truly ridiculous. The girls are going to be wearing a brown, button up, linen dress, which resembles my Brownies uniform from the 1980s, with slightly less style. The boys, meanwhile, will be wearing a khaki coloured button up shirt, made out of a material that looks particularly stiff and scratchy along with a choice of brown shorts or long trousers. There’s even a belt, so that they can attach their rifles to, should a passing lion (in the middle of Kampala) decide to give them trouble. They will also be sporting safari boots for warding off anything untoward that should be lurking in … I don’t know – the cafeteria? The auditorium or classrooms? Maybe the big field? The children are not impressed with what they are going to have to wear. But who would ever think of asking them, the ones who have to wear it every day, when you have a Belgian architect who thinks about Africa with a capital A (the one with the roaming lions and giraffes and starving children) to design a uniform?