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Students not allowed to bring their own things?

So every year we do our little school shopping, we let her pick her own stuff because she knows exactly what she likes! Nothing out of the ordinary literally blank colored supplies (purple) because she’s a purple girly! The teacher told her to get rid of it, that everyone must use the same looking supplies everyone must be one due to it being unfair. I was shocked! Never heard of this before.. it’s a uniformed school which we hate but most schools here seem to be doing that so it is what it is regarding that! But school supplies?! Are we kidding?! I thought it was ridiculous. I felt like well we took away the form of self expression with the clothes and now the supplies?! Geez. So I wrote a small note stating I want my child to use what we purchased for her that the teacher can keep her own supplies. Is this rude.!? Am I wrong!? Anyone dealing with this? Is this a thing now? Also, it’s the lunches, my daughter is on the spectrum so we do a lot of safe foods here. Fruit/veggies/crunchy snacks/pepperoni. They told her that the lunches were a distraction.. haha I couldn’t believe my ears! 3rd grade mind you. No playing/stem stuff, going outside?! More and more it seems like a small prison for children. Just because ya throw a mural on the wall doesn’t make it a welcoming school! Men in prison make murals too. Ridiculous. I’m hoping to move my kids somewhere where’s there’s more self expression and “freedom”.