Reply #3: This is Britain, not the US

[muriel_volestrangler]

'Gang signs' are not a worry; it's more the divisiveness of 'my clothes are more expensive than yours' (there is a grant for poor families to get the school uniforms).

Wearing school uniforms is part of the social culture of Britain. Given that, isn't an agreed mode of dress, that satisfies local Muslim modesty requirements, a suitable compromise?