To be honest, I think the decision is too extreme. The idea that brands are suitable for a school in the Ginza district has no place in public education.

Amazing that this even needs saying.

Ho-ho, exploiting parents by the prestige pressure - now in schools! Does the light still shine there?

Just a personal angle, but the thing I am most amazed at is that it seems the principal took this decision unilaterally without consulting the parents. Anyone who has had a child in a regular school will know of the countless PTA meetings. My wife is not even on the committee, but has to go three or four times a month to the inaka school our two older children attend. So parents have all of these duties and commitments to the school, and go there regularly, but are locked out of even basic decisions on the uniform they have to buy.

Principals also move between public schools every few years, so I'm struggling to see how this decision making process came about. It sounds like a complete mess.

Yes, it is a bit expansive, but if the school offer them ? Why not ?

May be they got external money giving ?

Well, the article is a bit short.