Most of the reasons against school uniforms are personal preferences as compared to factual evidence leading you away from school uniforms. The main push against school uniforms is that it doesn’t let children express themselves. If by taking away their right to dress one would be slowly starting to take away the pure joy to wake up in the morning and choose what one wishes to look like that day. Imagine a small child who loves this one shirt, then their school adopts uniforms. One would now have to tell the child they can no longer wear their favorite shirt; the child would be devastated. As one slowly starts to take away the children’s right to dress as they choose one is slowly diminishing their creativity and understanding of what they
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Cost is a major argument about school uniforms and whether it helps or hinders the parent 's’ checkbook. In 2004 parents spent about $162 on school uniforms per child. If you spend roughly $50 per month for each of your children on clothing in four months you will have already spent more money on regular clothes than on uniforms. Now imagine a lone yellow shirt on a rack of black shirts, it would stand out. Therefore if the worst comes true and a dangerous intruder were in the school out of uniform one would be easy to spot. The police wouldn’t have to make the decision of to shoot or not to shoot if someone from inside the school reported what the intruder were wearing, if the intruder was the only only one dressed like that. The second worst, bullying would be sure to diminish if every child were dressed the same. There would be no more shaming on the style of shirt a child chooses to wear that day because the antagonist would be in the same style of shirt. Mumford states, “Many students feel humiliated, intimidated, or alienated if they do not possess appropriate encounterments.” (Brunsma,59) It’s horrible to think that children are made to feel out of place just because they aren’t wearing what is to be made as the unofficial uniform of the
Cost is a major argument about school uniforms and whether it helps or hinders the parent 's’ checkbook. In 2004 parents spent about $162 on school uniforms per child. If you spend roughly $50 per month for each of your children on clothing in four months you will have already spent more money on regular clothes than on uniforms. Now imagine a lone yellow shirt on a rack of black shirts, it would stand out. Therefore if the worst comes true and a dangerous intruder were in the school out of uniform one would be easy to spot. The police wouldn’t have to make the decision of to shoot or not to shoot if someone from inside the school reported what the intruder were wearing, if the intruder was the only only one dressed like that. The second worst, bullying would be sure to diminish if every child were dressed the same. There would be no more shaming on the style of shirt a child chooses to wear that day because the antagonist would be in the same style of shirt. Mumford states, “Many students feel humiliated, intimidated, or alienated if they do not possess appropriate encounterments.” (Brunsma,59) It’s horrible to think that children are made to feel out of place just because they aren’t wearing what is to be made as the unofficial uniform of the