The only problem with freedom of choice uniforms, whether they're tailored or not, defeats the whole point of them. That poor kids can look the same as the toffs, there's no differentiation based on wealth.
It's when the argument gets to unisex toilets that it gets more complicated and absurd with one young woman, who successfully fought the uniform battle in Wellington, just showing how silly it can get. She said by having two toilets, going into one or the other is a political statement, which is of course nonsense.
The toilet issue has divided nations around the world. In the United States, Donald Trump, the man who is so sensitive about the women's rights, asked a judge to overturn an Obama initiative ensuring the rights of transgender individuals to use a toilet that aligns with their gender identity.
If education institutions didn't comply they ran the risk of losing their federal funding.
The debate still rages but for once I find it difficult to argue with Trump.
Kids at school, particularly in their teenage years, have enough trouble coming to grips with the hormones racing through their bodies without being confused, or worried, about which toilet they can use in private.
It's something they shouldn't have to contemplate, let alone try to cope with the politics their decision may signal.
But a warning to those who are contemplating switching to a male toilet, the sort that many schools have with a sheet of stainless steel over a trough at ground level that they call a urinal.
Try standing there in shorts and jandals and feel the spray bouncing off the wall from the individual standing next to you.
At least a unisex toilet has bowls and cubicles. So forget the political statement - go for the sanitary one.
