The overworked teacher who has organised this  so-called blitz has probably done so for a reason. Has anybody checked to see if the uniform code was told to the students right from the first day at school and did any of these parents bother to read it anyway?

 Did any of these parents ring the school before going on social media to check the reason for the ‘‘blitz’’, or  to see how many times the student had been warned and didn’t bother to tell them? 

 If you don’t support  teachers when they discipline your children,  you only have yourself to blame when they don’t do well  at school. Many teachers spend most of the time in class trying to control students who have no respect for them instead of teaching the subject they love.

 Oh, I wonder why that is?

 If you want to  help,  use social media to support your teachers and not bag them for trying to train your children in the right way to do things. 

John Thompson, Cordeaux Heights

 I had occasion recently to attend the  emergency  department at Wollongong Hospital, and I wish to express how impressed my husband (who accompanied me) and I were by the way I was treated.

  From the initial triage through the various processes until being seen by a doctor, I was treated with kindness, good humour, professionalism and respect by all medical staff. 

  Far from feeling I was just another number, concern and empathy for my condition  was much in evidence. 

 Nurses, doctors and other hospital staff work very hard and often long hours, and I feel are perhaps not always appreciated.  Well, I certainly appreciate them, especially after my visit.  

 Carol Morphett, Thirroul

For far too long greedy and conniving politicians have played Australian taxpayers for fools with apparently endless false claims.

Tony Abbott should immediately establish an Office of Expense Justification within     Treasury    to oversee all expenses incurred in the name of official government business, where only the actual portion of costs of genuine electorate representation are met by the taxpayers.

At the moment politicians are conveniently blending genuine work in the electorate with personal and non-electorate related functions. They dream up excuses to be somewhere at taxpayers’ expense. Expenses should be made accountable before they are incurred and not after.

All politicians are rorting the current free-for-all, unmonitored system. Perhaps Centrelink style guidelines and practices could be directed at politicians in the same way they are for everyone else seeking government money.

Dave Cox, Corrimal

As an expat from America,    I want to welcome our new university students from the UK,  US and Norway.

 I hope they enjoy their stay,   rest assured  there  will be little chance of some madman with an assault rifle entering the UOW and shooting innocent people as happens so  often  in the US.

 They can feel secure here thanks to Australia’s strict gun laws. I hope they take this thought back home when they leave.

William Bielefeldt, Kembla Grange