Why We Should Encourage Students To Wear Uniforms

Along with the students’ attitude and sense of pride increasing, wearing uniforms will allow students to focus more in their classes. The students and teachers will be able to focus more on their classes instead of what the students are wearing. Every day students walk into school worrying about whether or not their clothes look fashionable. People also get distracted by looking at other people’s clothing. Additionally, students arrive late to school because they are searching for clothes to wear that day. Along with the students, teachers can also save time in class by not having to check the students’ clothes. If the teachers save time that allows the students to have more time to learn. A very large portion of time would be saved in the …show more content…
Having school uniforms would always be appropriate for the students to wear since the school district would be picking them out. That way the teachers would not waste precious class time where they could be teaching their students. Also, the students would not get distracted from the teacher’s doing that. At Lyndhurst School District in New Jersey, the superintendent created a uniform policy which led to more students coming to class on time. The superintendent, Tracey Marinelli, acknowledged their uniform policy for being the reason that the number of students running late to school greatly decreased (Gavin). Without a uniform policy, students have to decide what they want to wear every morning which wastes extra time in the morning. That would lead to a lot of students getting to class late. School uniforms stop the students from spending extra time in the morning looking for something to wear because they will have something already mandated to wear. This leads to the students not missing any class time. Therefore, school uniforms are needed to save time in class for the teachers, and they are needed to stop students from coming to school late which saves the students time in