The Gap State High School in Brisbane’s west has made news because of its strict adherence to its uniform policy. The ABC reported that dozens of parents have taken to social media to vent their anger after their children received detention for wearing the wrong shoes to school.

Last year the school warned both students and parents that the school intended to strictly enforce their uniform policy and that shoes worn would have to adhere to policies requiring that they be black leather lace-up school shoes, which have a heel no greater than 20 millimetres and no lower than 5 millimetres.

While...