Essay On School Uniforms

School uniforms were, is, and will remain in public and private schools worldwide. However, the debate has been ongoing for teachers, school officials, and parents whether uniforms should be a requirement for all institutes. Some schools require a dress code while others eliminate cascading failures that come with dress codes and stand by uniformity. Uniforms are easier to enforce than dress codes because students can misuse less distinguished programs. Namely, clothing that displays vulgar, crude, gang-related, sexually explicit, or suggestive messages are against dress codes. A school uniform, however, may consist of khakis, polo shirts, or a restriction in choice color clothing. Uniforms, previously introduced in England in the16th Century, offer a way to distinguish the upper-class. It was for mindsets and a reduction in discipline infractions that uniforms are in the U.S. private schools today and in years prior. Public institutes in 1989 introduced the policy in troubled areas in Maryland when a child, over “a pair of $95 sunglasses”, was shot (Brunsma, 2004).
While most people believe the way one dresses does not have anything to do with education, researchers have revealed that schools requiring a uniform have better attendance rates, a decrease in socioeconomic tensions, and overall respect …show more content…
When they get a “free dress” day, they would rather wear their uniforms because they feel it is a competition to dress otherwise and are proud of their school pride. It is undeniable that school uniforms have an influence on school decorum. Furthermore, there has been one school shooting in the UK since 1996 (Kerry-Anne, 2015). School uniforms alongside tight gun laws are the main reason for universities dignified propriety of behavior, speech, and dress. If school officials in the U.S. required such systematic routines in grades K-12, they too could see more promising