"official" school supplies

Recently my school has announced that they were going to enforce new rules next year and that is that it is compulsory of us to buy and wear official school track pants and official school socks. The reason for this is to ensure that everyone wears the same track pants as well as make sure that students don't have an excuse for their uh, "short" socks. You know, those that sink into your shoes when you walk? Yeah, those. 

Although I can't help but think that these items are a COMPLETE WASTE OF MONEY.

That's right school, I went there, so read on if you want to have the evidence to suspend me from school for a few days due to "inappropriate behaviour".

Official school track pants? So what do you expect us to do with the few pairs of track pants we have now? Just leave them in our drawers until we can no longer fit in them and bring them to the recycling centre? I doubt that many people in my school actually exercises and if they do, I doubt that they would wear track pants. They are uncomfortable to wear and the only reason we bought them was because the school board required us to wear them during gym class. 
You might ask, "why not buy the official one just to be safe in the first place?" well that's because the official one is a) unappealing and b) expensive. Maybe if the design wasn't as bad as it was and if you guys had lowered the price then maybe more people would consider to buy the official one.

Same goes to official school socks. What the hell am I going to do with my drawer full of un-official school socks?! I BOUGHT THOSE FOR SCHOOL, YET THE SCHOOL BOARD IS TELLING ME THAT I HAVE TO BUY NEW "OFFICIAL" ONES AFTER 3 YEARS IN HIGH SCHOOL. It would have been worth it if you guys had created this stupid new rule 3 years ago when I didn't have this many socks, but noooo, you decide to create it when I have 1 year left of high school and a drawer full of un-official socks. What's worse is that I have twin siblings who will be going to the same High School I'm in in 2016 which means that we will have to spend more money on buying these so-called "official school socks". 
Okay, I can't put all the blame on the school board for this one because the students are to blame too.A BIG THANK YOU to the people who conveniently decided to be hip and fashionable by buying "short" socks instead of school appropriate, ankle-length ones. Apparently the trend nowadays in my country amongst high-schoolers is to not expose your socks, which means that the lower your socks sink into your shoes, the more "fashionable" you are. Well thanks to whoever who created this idiotic trend, we now have to waste more money on buying official ankle-length school socks. This could have been prevented if the students were to cooperate, but that's not what they did now isn't it!?

And don't get me started on the official session tags that my school forced us to buy and wear on our uniforms this year. You see, high schools in my country have morning sessions and afternoon sessions. So, in order for dull-witted people to differentiate between the morning session students and the afternoon session ones, some genius decided to create the "session tags". For morning session students, our tags were a small, red circle tag with our school's logo on it whilst the afternoon session students' ones were the same as ours, only blue in colour rather than red. We were to either pin them or iron them onto our uniforms. ( Ironing them onto uniforms may leave a circular red/blue stain, so pinning is the better option).
So what other uses will this tag bring other than the one stated above? Absolutely none. It serves no other purpose.
Funny thing is that the headmistress herself does not make use of this, this tag. The one she herself forced us to buy and wear after 3 years of us not wearing them. Yeah, other high-school students in my living area had started to wear theirs many years before us so I guess my headmistress wanted to follow the "trend" this year. And I guess we were sort of lucky that this tag thing only started this year. 
Getting off topic here. I need to justify the reason I said what I said above.

On a Saturday morning, we had to attend school to replace our future lessons that we were going to skip due to the extension of our holiday period. During recess, my friends and I were sitting on a bench in the cafeteria, eating our lunches. Suddenly, the headmistress approached us hastily and demanded to know what session we were from. Mind you, every one of us was wearing our tags, and they were visible enough to be spotted from a distance. And if you were wondering, no, recess had not ended yet. After we told her we were from the morning session, she turned to walk away without saying anything. That event left me speechless. If the headmistress herself does not make full use of these tags then what's the purpose of us wearing them? 

Problem with the school board is that they have this mindset that everyone in the school is filthy rich. They admitted it themselves earlier this year actually.
They assume that we are all so filthy rich that spending a couple of bucks on these supplies won't put a dent in our parents' wallets. And maybe they're right, maybe it won't but I'd rather keep those couple of bucks than spend it on useless items which may not be re-used after graduation.

To conclude, I hope that the school board would quit enforcing new rules which require us to unwillingly dish out money. In addition, I also hope that they would get rid of their "everyone is filthy rich" mindset because no, not all of us are "rich", there are poor and middle-class students in our school too for your information.

Because I have not once disclosed the school's name on my blog, I don't think that my suspension would be justified if you- the headmistress - were to suspend me. Yes I have shown pictures of the school but I have not written the school's name and have not shown the school's logo. Plus this blog is really unpopular and I wouldn't promote it amongst my schoolmates so... any action taken from the school board will be again, highly unjustified. In addition, any commentary on this post during the school's weekly assembly will be ignored. That is all.

UPDATE: 17|08|2014 About the tags thing, before we were forced to wear our session tags, we already had coloured name tags stitched onto our clothers. For example: purple represents this age group, pink represents that age group etc. In other words, since 15-17 year olds were in the morning session, you'd be able to distinguish between them and the 13-14 year olds by simply looking at the colour of their name tags!  But no, people are too lazy to memorise which colours belong to which age group so they made us buy these useless session tags. That kind of defeats the purpose of the coloured name tags doesn't it? I mean wasn't the coloured name tag thing created so that we could be able to tell which age group belonged to which colour? IMO, as long as you know that which age group is in which session, which colour belongs to which age group, then you are good to go.
Might as well use black and white name tags if you're not going to make use of the colours am I right?