What is a good speech starter for "The effect of school uniforms"?

Question

I'm writing a speech and I don't know how to start it.
I need like a "attention getter".

Answer 1

Now, are for or against uniforms?
That's what you should state in your first 2 sentences.
Say something like "do you think these uniforms look good?" or something like that.
If you're for the uniforms, include the important fact, that they are equalizers, and the school should have them to have an equal, none jealous, not rude student body.

Answer 2

A direct, attention getting statement that you believe in. Something in your face. Like: "School uniforms suck" (or, if you are presenting a more positive position, "School uniform requirements are a good thing, even if many students think that "school uniforms suck.")

Then present arguments for the position you are taking and support the arguments with real evidence that you find.

Tackle a few of the arugments against these and show where they are wrong or weak.

Conclude with because of (three strongest arguments recapped), I'm sure you'll now agree that ("school uniforms suck" or the contrary – i.e., recap your starting proposition).

Note: this is a debating speech approach which you can use when you are advocating a position about something. Other types of presentations may require a softer, less definitive, approach.

Answer 3

The ultimate effect of school uniforms? Do you mean the fact that ultimately we are teaching our children that they must conform to someone else's ideas? Do you mean the effect that will be had by raising students to accept whatever is forced on them and not be individual thinkers? Do you mean the effect on this country when these students are old enough to be making the decisions for themselves as well as finding it OK the force their opinions on others thinking that it's perfectly OK to do so? Do you mean the effect of people finding nothing wrong with chunking out freedoms guaranteed in the Constitution of this country? Sure that all sounds rather bizarre, but that's what that kind of attitude ultimately teaches. Read the Declaration of Independence and the history that lead to it. Read the Sumptuary Laws in England at the time - yes there really were laws about who could wear how much fabric in their clothes and what colors they could be. Look at Hitler's forcing the Jews to wear symbols. Really and truly the attitudes all start somewhere. Let's don't start it here.

Answer 4

The effect of having school uniforms will be one less pressure of having kids compete with one anothers outfits.


And add your ideas after that . What do you see in school when you don't have uniforms ?

Answer 5

Wearing a school uniform if like being naked. We look the same as everyone else, and we're stripped of almost all our individuality-the only distictions are between gender and size.

That's if you're against them.
[If you're for them, you can use this and go on to state why wearing them is better than being naked/nude and better than other clothes.]

Answer 6

"I'd like to make a fashion statement today with the clothes I'm wearing..."

So, will you be wearing the uniform, or not?