yes or no questions on school uniforms?

Answer 1

YES! Uniforms are a great idea for schools!
1 Kids that can't afford name brands will still fit in with their friends
2 Every school has a dress code that kids are always breaking, girls showing too much skin or boys in baggy pants.... Uniforms would stop that problem
3 Kids will learn better if they are not so focused on clothing, what is she wearing, what shoes does he have? Stuff like that is distracting.
4 Anyone who is anti-uniforms will say it stops kids creativity or individuality. Well, that isn't true at all!!! Kids need to learn that who they are as a person is their individuality. They can learn a talent, take up art or sports to help them find "who they are". With out dress codes kids all just want to dress like their friends anyways. How individual is that? Being a copy cat of the cool kids or rich kids or some *trashy* celebrity isn't being an individual.

Answer 2

Yes. I was poor growing up and got picked on for not having the clothes the other kids had. It was very demeaning. It is cheaper, and the kids come in on the same footing. The shame of the regular school is that even some of the adult staff judges on the clothing, if a kid doesn't fit into a certain group often they are not giving the attention the others get.

Answer 3

no. from the school's perspective it may seem to be the simple answer to violence, clicks, etc. but being a student who has worn a uniform for 7 years i'll tell you first hand we have had just as many fights and threats of violence. it has actually caused more problems than fixed because some students seem to always get in trouble for wearing one wrong item of clothing while so many other students get away with it day after day. it is really not worth the trouble.

Answer 4

My opinion: a dress code is okay. Kids need to be safe and not too distracted. But it should be a list of a few kinds of clothes that AREN'T allowed, not a uniform of a few kinds of clothes that are.

An interesting book:

The school uniform movement and what it tells us about American education : a symbolic crusade / David L. Brunsma. -- Lanham, Md. : ScarecrowEducation, 2004.

Answer 5

yes, studies have actually shown that when schools switch to uniforms the grades go up because people stop paying attention to what every one else is wearing in class and they pay more attention to the teacher.

Answer 6

This is one of the few topics on which my wife and I disagree. She grew up in a Catholic school and is big on the whole uniform idea. I grew up attending public schools and playing in rock and roll bands and am big on the whole personal expression thing.

While it is true that the school needs to set reasonable guidelines, I believe that the school should not be telling the kids what to wear.

Answer 7

Yes...you're not in school to show how rich or poor your are or how fat or thin you are or be a fashion advertisement for gay male designers...you are there to learn and therefore YES. Suck it up baby. You'll thank your momma for it some day.

You'll have plenty of time to showcase your goods when you're older and have more sense (or not) in those yet-to-be developed brains.

I grew up in the Rock N Roll era of the 70s too...the worst people could say about us is that we wore bell bottom pants and t-shirts, and ok maybe "hot pants"....none of which compare to the ridiculousness of the clothing kids where today....the stupidest look of all are the boys with their underwear sticking out and pants hanging off their hips and pooling on their filthy runners...this is self expression?

I lived next to a "school of the arts"...these kids looked like Marilyn Manson or Cindy Lauper with her orange hair and either wearing PJs or whatever else they could find in a musty second hand store...is this what we want our future kids to look like as adults? God help us all!!!

My daughter started wearing a uniform in high school (none of my kids did in elementary) and her grades shot up to 90s and have remained there...don't know what it is about uniforms but all the kids who wear them there and didn't before are very happy for it.

Grades 6/7/8 is about the time fashion seems to enter the picture so I think it gives less for GIRLS primarily to focus on as girls can be quite nasty at this age. I don't think it matters half as much to the boys personally.

And two more good points brought up below too are the security aspect, especially in high school where cameras are also installed, of visibly seeing who does not belong on school property, and yes, teachers too can be very judgmental of children who are poor.

I knew a boy whose mom was a tramp and grandma raised the boy...he always smelled, the kids made fun of him...he had runners with so many holes that hobos had better shoes...he was the sweetest and most mannered boy but made fun of like crazy....one day he came over and I made him throw his shoes and socks in the garbage and sent him home with new shoes, socks, a coat (winter and he didn't even have one) and pants and shirts I had that my son no longer needed.

One parent was so rude at school she said to me "and what did his MOTHER have to say about that?" I said "I don't give a SH *T what his mother has to say about it, she's just lucky I didn't call children's aid on her!"

So there is more equity for sure and kids wouldn't complain if they started off this way from day one. They would get used to it and that's that.

If they are to have uniforms though there must be equity and fairness to all students about the dress code and what is and isn't acceptable and if that is all you have to worry about you are doing not bad! :~)

Answer 8

Yes. It keeps everyone equal. Some kids are too poor for name brands.

Answer 9

YES!!
They're great. You don't have to worry about what you wear to school, you don't care about wealth, and they serve as an equalizer...Definately YES!

Answer 10

I still vote NO on school uniforms.