Surely starting to choose from the universe of possibilities of existing suppliers could make you give up. So you have to narrow down the field and ask yourself: What is essential that I be offered?
In a historical period like ours, I think that values such as solidarity and ethics can be considered essential in proposing to families the purchase of school clothing. And in this APE Social Wear is certainly a guarantee .
Subsequently, other questions and doubts also come into play. We often wonder about the motivations pros and cons with respect to this choice. I think that, first of all, recognizing oneself as part of a whole helps to strengthen the sense of belonging.
Just like at the stadium, we only need to see someone wearing the shirt of our favorite team to feel that they are already on our side. Being in a team, in a group, in a family. Give children the certainty of something bigger that accepts them, hosts them but above all wants them with it.
Often, however, forced equality and the lack of being able to choose what to wear are seen as an impoverishment of the uniqueness of the individual.
I think it's a bit like in the movie The Incredibles Pixar , a family of superheroes who have to live incognito. The son Flash is forced to hide his super-speed so as not to make the other children lose; his mother always replies that " everyone is special " and Flash resentfully replies: “Everyone is special, which would be like saying that no one is.”
School, how to valorize the individual
Here, by suggesting that children wear clothes that are the same in style and color, we do not make those who wear them all the same. We are making the exterior uniform (which often does not derive from the child's direct choice and is also determined by economic possibilities) to enhance the SPECIALTIES of everyone.
Every child, as a person, must be able to express himself and be free to present his SELF to others. And school has the privilege of helping children understand, comprehend and accept their essence. And if this can be done by avoiding the judgment, increasingly marked in today's society, of what appears, it will be easier to get to what one really is .
Although it is sometimes funny to say: “It's the one with the blue sweatshirt” and then remember that everyone is wearing a blue sweatshirt (and believe me, it happens to us often! Ahahahah) it's equally nice to find yourself discovering the beauty and the uniqueness , more than before, of the smiles, the looks and the heart of each of them. Things that will never be hidden by a t-shirt that is the same for everyone.
Chiara Brusciani
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