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Of school uniforms and dumb cosmetic changes

Parents shopping for school uniforms in Nakuru in 2017. Schools have for decades maintained their school uniform for reasons of pride and heritage. [File, Standard]

In the old days, each time a school got a new head, what would follow next was predictable. You were assured the school rules, programme and even waking up hours would change.

The new heads would also change the location or even when not possible, direction of the door to the staff-room or the venue of the assembly. The most daring, would change the main gate and the school uniform.

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