Is school like an institution, why or why not?

Question

i think it isnt because we are able to express our indvididuality and be ourselves and teachers cant tell us what to wear or how to dress

Answer 1

School is an institution.

Believe me, teachers don't give a darn what you wear until or unless it distracts other kids from learning. Teachers don't care about holding power over you, and they can't do anything or enforce any rules that weren't put in place by your parents. Your parents are the ones who make up the rules, or vote on what rules should be in place.

Teachers want you to express yourselves, they aren't trying to shut you down. Uniforms equalize everyone, it levels the playing field between kids who have everything and kids who do not. It places your intelligence front and center, where it should be in a school.

Teenage girls are so caught up in how they look, every second of the day, that the only course of action most schools have is to at least curb their vanity by setting a dress code. I know, I was a teenage girl, we had no dress code. I lived on the beach in southern California and I wore a bathing suit top and cut of jeans with flip flops to school. The guys wore trunks and sandals and tank tops. That was our dress code, basically. Two years after I graduated the dress codes were reinstated, too many thongs in plain sight. Underwear became outerwear, the girls blew a good thing by going too far. Their own fault. We had it made. They blew it.

Uniforms are the only answer because some girls just don't know when to stop. The more makeup a young girl wears, the younger she looks. Mostly, the school faculty just want you to make it through to graduation and retain a smidgen of what they taught you. They don't care about policing your clothes, unless you do something that makes them be the police.

Expressing your individuality is something one does with one's mind, not with one's clothing because, anyone can buy what you have on, nobody can take what comes from inside.

Answer 2

Most people generally accept that schools are institutions. In fact, colleges are frequently referred to as "institutions of higher learning". I don't think there's much debate on the subject.