How do you feel about school uniforms?

Stifles creativity; makes people look too much alike. People should be able to wear what they want. There is too much emphasis placed on what people wear, including offices. Get rid of dress codes. I know there are certain reasons, especially in schools, why some people think uniforms are a good idea (like eliminating "gang" identification) but I would never be comfortable in a uniform myself. My mom used to threaten me, when I misbehaved, that she was going to send me to Catholic school and I was terrified because I knew they wore uniforms.

I'm not really sure. It sounds like a good idea on the face of it, but I haven't given it that much thought.

I can see the point of school uniforms but I still think it is a little excessive.

I think school uniforms are an excellent idea. It stops issues of financial differences for example someone have better outfits than another. It also creates a sense of unity. Also getting dressed in the morning for school is a ritual which gets the pupil ready for education and is a distinction between home and serious work. Its a professional thing much like putting on a suit for work. I do object to those schools which insist that girls must wear a skirt. I would also have to say that in the UK they have a scheme where if you on welfare then you can claim funding from the Government to pay for the school uniform. This is a good idea.

I think the idea is excellent! Some argue that having everyone be alike isn't true to how the 'real world' is structured, but when I went to public school in the US with no uniforms the poorer kids were teased and I hated it.

They are best to have some discipline on children, especially these days when they need it.

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They tried making children all dress alike once. I saw a documentary about it. It was hard to understand though becuase the narrations were in German!

I don't really care one way or the other. I remember when I was in grade 11 social studies our teacher proposed the idea to see what our reaction would be. No one thought to highly of the idea. I think my main objection was that school uniforms generally look pretty geeky. As I recall, at the time I thought that if the school uniform was like: jeans and a T-shirt, I would be pretty much indifferent to the idea.

Good idea. I always had to wear one right up to year 12, You don't have to find a new outfit to wear every day, you don't get hasseled if you can't afford expensive brand names clothes, and you always know you're getting on the right school bus . I really don't think wearing a uniform damages children's development. Everyone ends up with their own interests and personality. It's like suggesting that because police have to wear a uniform that they are all into weird sexual activities. It doesn't change who you are but wearing a uniform means you have to rely more on who you are than what you look like.

Nurses dress alike.

I'm glad I didn't have to wear school uniforms, but I can see how it could be a positive thing.

I'm tlaking about forcing young impressionable types to wear clothes they normally wouldn't want to wear to social functions. This is different from epopel who CHOOSE of their own free will to get a job wher unifroms are required. There is a major difference there.

Man I've got to stop un-filtering comments.

Why do you have to filter comments at all? Why can't you face the fact that people don't always agree with what you say and allow people to share their point of view? You show real immaturity when you refuse to even consider what others say by filtering them. Infants don't CHOOSE to wear clothes at all. Is dressing a young child at all forcing young impressionable types to wear something they wouldn't ordinarily wear? I can't see how wearing a uniform as a child is more devastating on a child's psyche that obeying other rules that a child wouldn't ordinarily want to follow.

They are fine, if there is an opt-out policy. There are some people who have an aversion to looking like everyone else. There are some people who belong to clubs that have their own uniforms. There are some people who feel a need to make people curious about them. There should be exceptions.

I am completely against it, and if it was ever brought to my school, I would refuse.

Ick!

I liked mine.

Well. You can see why they (the government) would want these uniforms. There are a lot of kids who get beaten up because they don't have clothes that are cool enough. They should have a basic uniform, bit allow accessories.That is my opinion!

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I can see how school uniforms are both good and bad. If the students are required to wear uniforms, it cuts out a lot of teasing over clothes. It is also good because the kids all dress nice. But, what about the kids that have parents that can't afford to buy the uniforms for their kids? What are they left to do? Not send their kids to school? Also, some kids are still going to have the name brand clothes, only they'll wear the ones that look close to the uniform. Here, the students in grades K-8 are required to wear uniforms. Each school has a few choices about the color shirts you can wear and you have to wear kacki or navy pants, shorts, or shirts.

In private schools (wear the parents pay tuition) I see no problem with kids being required to wear a uniform. Although, I think that by high school, uniforms should be thrown out the door.

I went to a private school and we were required to wear uniforms the whole way through high school. I got in a lot of trouble about that. I hated them and refused to wear them half the time.

they are great.. I only need to remind the guys here of Britney Spears to make then see how great they are.

although i don't like things like this to be dictated, i can see how it helps in areas where different social classes and keeps people from standing out as "better" or "poorer".

love them

I laud the theory (of disguising class differences) behind requiring school uniforms. But I don't think it works. Rich students will have nicer shoes or jewelry or hairstyles, and the competition is no less intense.

You're assuming that normal men find that talentless stripper wanna-be attractive.

I sometimes wear a school uniform

ooooooooo... thats a nice image!

I've never had to wear a school uniform, for which I am grateful.

Speak not against the Britney >

They're great...as long as I don't have to wear it .

I wouldn't really care if my school issued a uniform, it would take alot of early-morning hassle away from me, I hate trying to find something to wear every morning, It would be so much easier just to throw on the same thing and go >

I have brand-name clothes, but sometimes I like to just put on a pull over or something, alot of people at my school don't really care about that too much though, I know kids with the nicest clothes in the world who get tormented more than kids that shop at the good will, seriously.

In the school I went to, I think too much time was spent enforcing a school uniform rather than on more important disciplinary or educatonal issues.
I don't think it disguises economic differences at all... you can tell who has a new uniform and who has a second hand one.
I think it's good for kids to learn what appropriate dress is for themselves rather than having it dictated to them.
It was handy to throw on the same dress day after day after day though, so it wasn't all bad.
I don't think it saves parents any money on clothes because kids still want clothes for weekends and out-of-school hours.

The jury is out....

My daughter has experienced both. Her take is that uniforms created a less segregated atmosphere within the student body. There were still the same old, same old, teen hormone based rivalries, but, fewer "he/she's weird, don't associate with them" attitudes.

Okay - how fudgeed up am I.

In forum recently you said that "Britney sucks balls". So I sit there thinking - 'oh, that's like a good thing then. BrianW likes Britney' Then I went and created a link/game where if you were lucky you lot could get matched up with Britney.

So I now realise that its not a good thing. Okay. (Good because I don't like Britters either)

I think we should teach kids not to have that "he/she's weird, don't associate with them" attitude, and let kids be as weird as they want. Uniforms tackle the problem at the wrong side.

I have been to many academies and I like the idea about school uniforms..It's just easier in the morning to wake up and BANG you already know what you're gonna wear

I think that in this era, students should be taught to be responsible and free expression is important. I, overall, tend to believe in a school environment that is nice and non-restrictive to the students. The more (sane) options, the better.

Let materialism take place outside of the classroom. Uniforms are O.K. with me.

Young girls are sexy in school girl uniforms. Yum.

#1 Still not pulling it off, mate........

uh...that was me....

Sorry for confusing you with a vile (spelled right!) man, mandy!

It wasn't me..but...I do like school uniforms!

I still have my school uniform

oh...now that could be fun

I wore a school uniform in grammar school and high school. It's easier to focus on school work when you don't have to worry about your clothes and what you're going to wear tomorrow or for yearbook pictures.

"Miss..........I cant understand this sexual reproduction question"

See me after school...

I didn't worry about my clothes anyway, so uniforms would have done nothing for me, except prevent me from wearing what I wanted.

ok Miss, 11pm outside the school showers?

Oh no...that will never do...
5pm in the cellar

But Miss, I have trumpet practise then. Do you fancy a quick blow?

I love the idea of school uniforms. It saves the parents a lot of time buying clothes and doesn't have the children compete against one another to see who can dress the best. Kids can express their individuality outside of school. School is a place to learn and socialize. It is not a place of fashion.

It's good idea. All the things the teenagers wear now... Gosh, I don't want to go back to school and look at that heresy.

As a school administrator, I can attest that the purpose of school uniforms is not to stifle creativity in fashion or developing unique personalities. Believe me, anyone who is around a teenager will know, that even if they have to dress "alike", they find ways to display their own personality. The purpose is to control gang attire and unfit clothing that hinders learning. I have seen students wear see through shirts (without bras), clothes so tight that it is amazing they got it on and pants that hang so far down that their underwear shows. In addition, I have seen students "jumped" because they possess a certain shirt or jacket. Uniforms do not solve all of these problems, but they do help.

#2 I attended 2 secondary schools - the first had school uniform and the second didn't. I can honestly say that there was far less bullying, cattiness, bad behaviour and innapropriate dress at the second. People were able to express themselves through their clothes rather than being forced to do it through their behaviour. Plus, I thought it made for a much more attractive school with a wide variety of dress styles from townie right through to traditional Muslim dress. I never saw one person bullied at that school for not having the "right" clothes.

I think having a dress code against those kinds of clothes, and strictly enforcing it should take care of those problems, too. Then the kids who want to wear their own appropriate attire can still do that.

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poooooooooooooooooooooop on uniforms

drake u too wierd