Everyone looks great in a Uni
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Maria, Shireen, Sam
School dress codes vs. school uniforms School dress codes dictate what cannot be worn by any student, such as sheer or midriff-baring tops, clothing that advertises tobacco or alcohol, unkind comments directed towards other children and/or parents or the like. Uniforms, on the other hand, are specific in describing a limited range of officially sanctioned clothes that a student can wear. The difference is between "everything that is not allowed is forbidden" (uniforms) and "everything that is not forbidden is allowed" (dress codes). There are also studies that show that 68% of students that wear school uniforms succeed in their studies more than those who don't wear school uniforms due to lack of self consciousness about appearance.[Italic textcitation needed]
Pros for School uniforms:
1. School uniforms would save parents money.
2. School uniforms would save parents time. Kids in the morning would not have to make up their minds on what to wear.
3. Kids who's parents would not or could not buy them the newest fad, would not be embarrassed or harassed because of their cloths.
4. Kids social standing would be based more on individual character and less their economic status.
5. Lots of gangs use cloths to identify themselves and other gangs.
6. Some kids use baggy cloths to hid weapons and drugs.
7. It is my opinion that school is in the 'business' of learning. School is the place where the next lawyers, bankers, CPA's and Doctors are given the fundamentals of working in this economy. One of the basics of our culture in the working world is conservative dressing, dress code, or even uniforms. What is wrong with sending our kids the message that they are in 'the business of learning' by enforcing dress codes, or even ascribing a uniform?
8. Uniforms make it easy to identify kids who belong in the school and those that don't.
9. Going along with comments in number 7, a dress code is likely to inherently prohibit questionable dressing choices on the part of students. Revealing clothing and clothes emblazoned with questionable subject matter that require a high vigilance of enforcement to control under a "dress code" policy would be fairly easy to intercept with an instituted uniform policy.
10. It is not so much "social status" that clothing is used to exhibit on the part of students any more these days, but rather an emphasis on "attitude". With a uniform policy, students are not easily enabled to make personal statements about "who they are" by what they wear. In a sense, it forces students to operate on a more cognitive level in establishing who they are... which may be a good thing because it moves them out of the simplistic notion that "look at what I wear to find out who I am" and having to think a little harder about how to "show" who they are might engender some discovery on their own part. Maybe they are not actually "who" they have been content to be according to the Tilly's ad all this time.
Links arguments FOR school uniforms:
http://www.essays.cc/free_essays/g1/bth31.shtml http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0STR/is_5_114/ai_n13664617 http://www.pottsville.k12.pa.us/tidelines/092800/pahs/pro.html http://www.exampleessays.com/viewpaper/79358.html http://www.sun-herald.com/NewsArchive2/072306/ew5.htm?date=072306&story=ew5.htm
District wide school Uniforms: http://www.123helpme.com/view.asp?id=30175
Study on school uniform perceptions and results: http://web1.msue.msu.edu/msue/programs/cyf/public_html/cindy/Revisedrevoflit.htm
