Tots' dots banned at Swedish daycare: report

0 Comments | AFP, February, 2008

STOCKHOLM (AFP) — A Swedish daycare has banned children and employees from wearing clothing with polka dots and stripes because the patterns give a staff member migraines, a Swedish newspaper reported Thursday.

"I feel sorry for the staff member so I adjusted the work environment. The person in question has to be able to work," May Norberg, head of Myran daycare in Gaellivare, northern Sweden, told the daily Norrlaendska Socialdemokraten.

Parents told the newspaper that children who show up wrongly dressed in the morning are provided with extra clothing -- in solid colours -- to change into.

The head of the Swedish Home and School Association, Ulf Eriksson, said he was surprised by the measure.

"I have a hard time imagining that (the school) is...