Although school uniforms are becoming big as many schools start adopting them, should they be in schools? Well, according to the article “Dress for Success: Public Uniforms” By Tamar Lewin a journalist for The New York Times. “In Miami 196 out of 328 public schools are required to wear uniforms.” 196 public schools! Now I don’t know about you, but to me that’s a huge number. There are 328 public schools in Miami, but 196 is about ⅓ of 328 and this article was published in 2016 so in 2 years how much could it have gone up?
According to, Denise-Marie Ordway, a reporter for the Orlando Sentinel and The Philadelphia Inquirer and also wrote news for two radio stations and a newspaper in Central America. She was named as a Pulitzer Prize finalist …show more content…
She is an aspiring journalist and occasional slam poet. She blogs at blogspot.co.uk and tweets at ESophieJ, and author of “Wearing a school uniform doesn’t help us learn” Explain that “More than 200 Bradford secondary school pupils were sent home from school this week. Their crime? Uniform infringements. They weren’t burning bras or tying their ties around their heads. They were wearing trainers or the wrong cut of trousers. But is it OK to deprive someone of a day of education just because they don’t look smart enough?” Personally, this really spoke to me because more than 200 students were sent home from school just because they wore something just a little different than someone else. In my opinion, if I was planning on going to Bradford, I would choose a different school because of this information. You can’t just put people in clothes that don’t express who they are. To illustrate, that’s like if you took a dog out of it’s fur. Ultimately, I believe that school uniforms have no room in schools because, one they are expensive, two they take away our freedom of expression, and third they cause students to get bullied by other
According to, Denise-Marie Ordway, a reporter for the Orlando Sentinel and The Philadelphia Inquirer and also wrote news for two radio stations and a newspaper in Central America. She was named as a Pulitzer Prize finalist …show more content…
She is an aspiring journalist and occasional slam poet. She blogs at blogspot.co.uk and tweets at ESophieJ, and author of “Wearing a school uniform doesn’t help us learn” Explain that “More than 200 Bradford secondary school pupils were sent home from school this week. Their crime? Uniform infringements. They weren’t burning bras or tying their ties around their heads. They were wearing trainers or the wrong cut of trousers. But is it OK to deprive someone of a day of education just because they don’t look smart enough?” Personally, this really spoke to me because more than 200 students were sent home from school just because they wore something just a little different than someone else. In my opinion, if I was planning on going to Bradford, I would choose a different school because of this information. You can’t just put people in clothes that don’t express who they are. To illustrate, that’s like if you took a dog out of it’s fur. Ultimately, I believe that school uniforms have no room in schools because, one they are expensive, two they take away our freedom of expression, and third they cause students to get bullied by other