why do kids have to wear school uniforms?
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Another reason is that the school is located close to another school, usually a high school. In my state, high schools are the only schools that cannot have uniforms enacted. My school is located right next to the high school. In order to make sure that the students on our campus belong there, parents decided to have students wear uniforms. It is a safety issue more than anything else.
Another reason many schools have uniforms is because the students do not know how to follow the dress code. Last year, before we had uniforms, girls would come in spaghetti strap tank tops (6th graders) and very short skirts or low rise jeans. The boys would come with their pants hanging below their butts so that everyone, even those who didn’t want to, could see their underwear. Uniforms solve this problem because most of them require a polo shirt and pants belted around the waist.
I think the main thing that people have to remember about school is that it is not a fashion show. You are there to learn, not to look good. No one is going to remember what you wore to school in 7th grade, but they will all remember if you stayed back.
The main reason behind this is security. Several years ago, a primary school in Dunblane was broken into by a madman with a gun; several pupils (all under the age of 10) and a teacher were seriously injured or killed. If everyone is wearing the same school colours it’s possible to instantly identify who should or should not be on the school premises just by looking around, and this is helping to ensure that the Dunblane Massacre isn’t repeated.
The uniform at my high school wasn’t too expensive either. Polo shirts and jerseys with the school crest were good value for money, or there was the option of a plain white shirt with the school tie if your family was hard up for cash. It only started to get expensive if you were given the Colours Award or were elected to be a Prefect, in which case you would have to buy a blazer with the school crest (which could be pretty expensive, although there was also an exchange system where school leavers could sell their blazers to the school, which would then be given to students who needed a blazer).
There really is no point to wearing uniforms. I remember once my summer gym set didnt dry in time and I had to wear the winter gym set for gym and I got all sorts of looks (for the people who think uniforms are great).
Also, I personally prefer pants over skirts. (which is an insult to me that they are forcing all girls to wear skirts so we can slut around or go OMG when the wind blows – I guess it depends on how you look at it) If I dont wear a skirt to school like all the other girls, I am going to get outcasted as some tomboy or lesibian (yeah so much good uniforms do).
There IS NO CHOICE for girls who dont want to wear skirts. Cause then you’re just labelling yourself as DIFFERENT.
You can define yourself with choice of clothing. Just cause you are all wearing the same thing will NOT make cool/nerd/outcast groups go away. If you kid doesnt fit into the cool group, no matter what they wear, they will not fit in.
Besides, if people want to waste a lot of money on clothing let them. Why dictate?
And if kids are that judgeful of what you wear and make friends that way… maybe its time to move to a better school.
My school is pushing for uniforms and I think it will be both good for the school environment and a positive influence on student learning.
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