Many state schools in England are driving families into penury by demanding students wear expensive customized uniforms.

I can think of two ways parents can work together to resist this swindle:

• Make unauthorized copies of the school's logo and sew it onto cheap generic uniforms.
• Organize a "uniform strike". If enough parents together refuse to buy the expensive uniforms, they can make the school back down.

Meanwhile, they can teach their children how to respond with defiance if anyone in the school sneers at them for not having the fancy expensive school-specific uniform: "My parents are right to prioritize things that we really need. If you want to blame someone, blame the Tories for allowing schools to demand expensive uniforms which are a burden on students' families. And for making so many Britons poor."