is it bad for students to wear uniforms?
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For us it seems bad but just think how long can u were new clothes?After a month or so we'll be repeating and in an year?JUST THINK.Notonly that once we stop uniforms the students will be more beauty consious specialy in coed schools.Uniform's even better for poor people.Nobody can tease them for their poverty.So I think UNIFORM is the best
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Thesis Statement:Uniforms should not be required in schools because students will not able to express themselves with them.\n We have enough restrictions in our life already and will get more as we grow older. We should be able to have at least a bit of fun in life while we can.\nThat should give you some idea. Hope this helps:)
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Not on school grounds unless you want to get into trouble.  And parents also seem to be against that sorta stuff too.
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depending on whether you mean dress code or uniformity.\ni'm complete against uniformity simply because clothing is another form of individuality and taking that away just makes us robots and that's ridiculous.\non the other hand, dress code is very very important.\nit keeps trashy girls from using their clothing to get attention in a way that shouldn't be given. simply because you can dress that way doesn't mean you should. aside from all other things school is still for learning not a fashion show. it's fine to look nice but the dress code keeps it from going overboard.\nEXCEPTION: flip-flops being banned is totally ridiculous. while safety is important so is comfort. if they are that concerned about safety the should take out the stairs. \nhope this helps. <3
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No, they are not, in most cases.  It is possible to lose your civilian clothes privileges as a punishment, though.
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Most people don't, but I had to wear a uniform up through 8th grade, and follow a fairly strict dress code up through high school.  I don't now in college, and I'm glad for that, but I think it was really useful when I was younger.  My schools were comparatively small, and the cliques weren't fun.  It was good not to have to worry what other people would think about the clothes I wore.  Though I don't know if I would have said so at the time, I think it might also have kept us just a little more focused on the academics.
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As a student I always wanted uniforms because of the fashion parade that went on at school.  It made life expensive for someone that had little money.  There was an automatic cast system - the haves and havenots.  The only good thing that came out of it was the fact that I learned to sew and when I got a job at age 15 I was skilled enough to be able to copy fashion designs; that skill has served me well throughout the years.\n\nAs a parent though, I still have to vote for uniforms.  It is the one area where an educator can level the fields inorder to make the classroom more condusive to learning.
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dress codes are just to keep students to wear thing that are apropiate. we may not care if someone shirt had swearing of somthing about sex on it but it not allowed in schools because they do not want expose these things to younger children.\n\nas for people who wear slutty clothes (hopefully only girls) the the dress codes prohibit you from wears these to protect you somehow.\n\nif you are talking about uniforms, they are used to identify students from stranger.
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When my kids' school tried to force my kids into uniforms i went to my 1st school board meeting to argue against this stupid, counter-productive, and morally reprensible action.  Those of us on the anti-uniform side had several good (and a few I admit that weren't so good) reasons not to have uniforms.\n\nThe decision of what the uniforms look like can NEVER be universally agreed upon. The final decision well come down to  a very few people, who then put their ideas onto everyone else.  I understand this is necessary in curriculum and book purchases but not fashion choices.\n\nI believe we can all agree that teachers have more than enough to do during school time. Uniform checking is an extra load they just don't need. Don't let anybody try to say that checking a uniform takes no more time enforcing any other dress code.  I spent 8 years in the military. I know all about wearing a uniform.  Checking uniform compliance is a meticulous activity.  You can tell at a glance if the clothes someone is wearing are smelly, have dirty words printed on it or show too much skin.  Teachers need to forget about uniforms and concentrate on what they are there for; teaching our kids.\n\nIf everyone has to wear the same clothes in a public school then anyone who can't afford the uniform will have to be supported by school funds.  They already are for meals, supplies, book fees, etc. The schools are strapped to the hilt as it is now.  We don't need an added expense.  \n\nUniforms are just a band-aid answer to real problems in schools.  It's a way for lazy, ineffectual administrators to look like they're doing something, rather than actually addressing what plagues the schools.\n\nUniforms have absolutely no educational value whatsoever.  There is no credible, conceiveable way that everyone wearing the same clothes improves education.  Anything that doesn't aid education has no business in schools.\n\nThere were probably others but it's late and I'm too tired to think of them right now.
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Yes, it helps students learn how to dress appropriately.  There are codes of behavior everywhere in life, and  you need to learn to work within these guidelines.
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I agree. It add the discipline to the kids, add a sense of united and eliminated the difference between kids. It also make you look good, feel good and feel young.\nBesides, if the uniform is cute/cool, doesn't it make a good memories when you're older?
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Uniform. Given the raging hormones of the age group, and the fact that they are in school to promote education, not salve their little egos.\n\nUniforms are cheaper, they erase the dividing line between poor and rich, they cause the students to pay more attention to their lessons and each other than what they have on or what body parts are visible.\n\nGrade averages are higher in schools that have uniforms. Uniforms can be as simple as a white T-shirt and jeans (that is what my child's school has) to "old-style" uniforms.\n\nWe have no arguments about what to wear, no trying on this or that, no problems with hemlines, straps, belly buttons, butt cracks, or sagging pants. It's easier, cheaper, faster, and fewer problems.
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school systems think it's a good idea beacause they think it's a new idea and that's good enough for them... wrong! i first heard about these uniforms by reading old 1930's news reels, of course it was a little difficult to understand because the narration was in german. -george carlin\n\nschool uniforms make kids uncomfortable and that makes for a bad learning environment and high tension among the students
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Well each and every student will be appropriately dressed if you had an uniform policy...\n\nFor example,\nNo Belly shirts, male or female.\nNo low-rider pants male or female.\nNo Inappropriate T-shirts with Sayings on them male or female.\nNo Underwear showing with the lowrider pants male and female.\nNo open toed shoes.\nNo skirts shorter than 2 inches, above the knee.\nNo bra straps showing.\nNo tank tops, male or female.\n\n\nAll I can think of right now...\n\nBut I do agree public schools should institute some sort of uniform policy, the kids dressing is out of control.\n\nThere is plenty of time after school to express ones self as an individual through dress or whatever, School is for learning!!!
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Dress codes should be required for public schools, because clothing is often a distraction to the education process.\n\nThere is enough pressures for young adults to get a proper education, so what they wear to school would eliminate the pressures of clothing.  A "uniform" should be required to attend classes.  \n\nThis would eliminate:\n\nUnapproved "sexy" jeans, or tops.  \nThe need to spend a lot of money on clothes to impress friends\nThe influence of "gang" colors in the schools\nEven the playing field, all students are equal status.\n\nThe most important thing going to school does is gives the students the tools to become young adults, and prepare them for higher education and eventually the business world.\n\nLook at the private schools, the students there outperform public school children because they stress education, and do not have the distractions of improper dress.\n\nMy co-worker is working three jobs to get his daughter in private school.  The tuition for her in 5th grade is $21,000 a year.\n\nThey are looking at paying over $100,000 for their daughter through grade twelve.  I could finish up with my B.A. degree and pursue my Master's degree and it not equal what they will be paying for a high school education for their daughter.\n\nSo, having a dress code is a tool that can be used for a successful education and we need to use it.
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Go to: www.findarticles.com\nEnter: school uniforms\nThere are many articles there discussing the merits of school uniforms.
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No, it is not appropriate. There are actual rules about this.  These rules, called the Academic Costume Code, can be found at the website provided below.  The rule about hoods follows:\n\nHoods. If a person holds more than one academic degree, he or she may wear only one hood at a time. The hood worn should be appropriate to the gown.