Long Island school asks students to stop wearing £272 beanie hats
The students spend hours looking for the hats when they accidentally lose them
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Your support makes all the difference.A middle school located on Long Island, New York is requesting that students, aged 11 to 13, refrain from wearing popular $350 (£272) designer hats - after numerous occasions where students have lost the beanies and become inconsolable.
In a letter home to parents, administrators at Great Neck North Middle School asked that they suggest their children leave their expensive Moncler hats at home, as they have become disruptive.
“We understand that fashion is very important to our middle schoolers,” the letter reads, according to the New York Post. “However, we have had many students who have worn their Moncler Winter Pom Pom hats to school, and either lost or misplaced them.
“We need your help! Please try and redirect your middle schooler from wearing these hats to school.”
According to the middle school, when students misplace the hats, the result is hours spent looking for them - hours the students should actually be spending learning.
In addition to consuming a “great deal of our time trying to locate these missing hats,” the school principal also noted it has been “disruptive to the students’ focus and time as well.”
The knit beanies topped with a fox-fur pom poms from the designer winter-wear brand come in different colours and cost $350 (£272), with Moncler jackets beginning at $925 (£719).
But despite the principal’s plea, parents told The Post they don’t think the issue warranted a letter home.
“I think there’s other things that should warrant parents’ attention,” one parent said. “If they lose it and freak out, they freak out. I don’t know why they have to send an email about it.”
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