It prevents kids discriminating against others on the basis of their clothes.
I've never seen this happen. Ever.
Uniforms are good at putting kids on even playing fields, like Bombardana is alluding to. Like, if there's a poor kid who's parents can barely afford to clothe them and wears a potato sack to school (an exaggeration, obviously), they're gonna get psychologically and probably physically ravaged by the more privileged ones. If everyone has to wear a uniform, there's little chance of that.
I'm absolutely okay with kids being forced to wear school uniforms. It prevents them from making bad decisions like having t-shirts with swear words or wearing slutty clothes or whatever. It encourages them to take pride in their school and represent it well in public.
Or you know, the parents could raise their children, not the schools. After all, it's the parents job...right?
Right. But the world isn't as black and white as that is it? Some parents have very little say in what their kids do/say/wear. Bomb raises a good point and I'll add to that with something along the same lines as kirby with the weapon thing; In the area I live there's, like parts of the States, there's a plethora of wannabe gangster kids who would go to school proudly boasting their gang colours. I'd imagine a uniform would diffuse that to a point and sidestep wannabe gang warfare in schools.
It encourages them to take pride in their school and represent it well in public.
If I had to wear a uniform, I would be ashamed of my school. I have a few friends who go to a uniformed school, none of them are proud of it.
This is subject to so many variables, so it makes for a pretty shaky argument on either side. I'd assume that your friends had similar ideologies to you (otherwise you wouldn't be friends, right?), so that you would stick together in hating the establishment would make sense. I for one was pretty proud of my college uniform, it was pretty styley and it definitely set the school apart from all the other colleges. Now, looking back, I actually loved getting up and putting on that uniform in the morning
. You also don't waste time in the worrying about what to wear to look cool in front of your oh-so-important peers, which I'd imagine is a huge problem for the metrosexual male. Screw that.
I don't really see it as a huge violation of freedom. We students have plenty of time after school to dress however we want. I certainly can see the appeal, it would be nice to wear a Muse T-shirt to school, but it's a matter of necessity over principal. Educators don't have time to waste monitoring dress. While they still do under a uniform code, it drastically lowers the potential number of problems.
Never, in my 10 years of non-uniform schooling, have I EVER seen class slowed down or disrupted because of clothing. Unless you count "cool shirt" as a major distraction, which I don't.
Coming from a uniform school that had occasional mufti days, I can tell you from experience that on mufti days, the behaviour of most kids took a nose dive. The pressure to match your attitude to your badass look was enough to turn teenagers into even bigger shits, as crazy as it sounds.
If you have a deskjob that requires you to wear business clothes, you can still make the choice to wear band tees and sweats. you will probably get fired, but you have that choice to get fired. School? You don't get fired from school. You can't.
You can get expelled or suspended which is pretty much the same thing. Also, comparing a job to school is pretty silly; if you don't like your job, you have a choice to
quit. Sure, you have a choice to wear inappropriate clothing and, in most cases where this kind of scenario counts, I'd imagine that'd be going against the terms of your contract. Which has far reaching consequences in terms of finding other employment. So if your gonna fuck yourself by doing that in the name of liberty, you're gonna be a very free, very poor man.
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