WHILST going down Columbia Road on Monday morning at 8.30 I noticed a group of young lads coming out of a local shop wearing hoodies and getting on their bikes. I thought to myself, it must be a bank holiday and they are off school then I realised as I got nearer they were in school uniform under the hoodies. Fashion or not should that be part of the school uniform? And what does that say about the particular school?

TERRY JERRARD, Slades Farm Road, Bournemouth