School uniforms are supposed to help raise attendance and other aspects of school, however research has found that it can have the exact opposite effect. For years there have been debates on school uniforms. Some say that kids need the rigorous structure in their life. Others say that not giving the ability to make the decisions now will make them unable to make decisions later. This debate has been so widely fought over that it’s even been brought to the attention of the federal court in the “Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District,” in which the court ruled in favor of the school students because “high school students had a First Amendment right to wear black armbands to class in protest of the Vietnam War”(Lane 1). There
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There are many stances on school uniform and many reasons for schools to and not use uniforms. Some of them being they can actually hurt the school depending on where it’s located, another being that a school can really benefit from using uniforms. In a small town called Clifton parents and “objectors said requiring students to wear uniforms is unnecessary” (Murtha 1). There is some reasoning to this, the parents of the students don’t want them to wear uniforms and that is a major reason schools don’t have them. If the parents aren’t willing to let them wear uniforms then the school can’t force them to. However the argument over school uniforms is growing in debates and public schools. Many public schools are switching over to having uniforms, and a lot of them are saying that it has improve the conditions of the school. In fact in the U.S. “19 percent of public schools reported their students wore uniforms”(Stocki 1). That shows just how much some public schools want to use uniforms. Even if all public school couldn’t use them many people have stated that there should at least be the option of having them. That being stated not all schools think that uniforms are important or needed. Even normal people have gone to state their opinion on school uniforms and the basically call them useless. As on very memorable comedian put it “ Don 't these schools do enough damage making …show more content…
School uniforms are very unique because there has to be a very fine balance in what to wear, where, to buy it, and how much it should cost. Like I said prices for uniforms are tricky and “Findings based on a poll of around 1,000 parents, found that 95 percent of mothers and fathers think school uniforms costs are unreasonable” (Sherwin 1). 95 percent of parents think prices are unreasonable and they still have to pay them. These parents are probably already straining to find money and they shouldn’t have to pay these prices. However for some schools uniforms are necessary and needed for that region (Sherwin). That is the only problem there are several more one of them being what to wear. Many people have wondered what should school policy be for uniforms, or even just a dress code and the answer seem to vary depending on the region or ideals of the school and community. There have been many debates on what to wear and “under president Clinton’s direction, the U.S. Department of Education published and disseminated a ‘Manual on School Uniforms’ to all 1,600 school districts in the U.S. encouraging the establishment of a school uniform policy” (Uniforms Timeline). This goes to show how much thought and debate goes into making a policy or uniform. The president had to make a manual on the subject and wasn’t even willing to let the school decide on what to wear. However those are only a couple
There are many stances on school uniform and many reasons for schools to and not use uniforms. Some of them being they can actually hurt the school depending on where it’s located, another being that a school can really benefit from using uniforms. In a small town called Clifton parents and “objectors said requiring students to wear uniforms is unnecessary” (Murtha 1). There is some reasoning to this, the parents of the students don’t want them to wear uniforms and that is a major reason schools don’t have them. If the parents aren’t willing to let them wear uniforms then the school can’t force them to. However the argument over school uniforms is growing in debates and public schools. Many public schools are switching over to having uniforms, and a lot of them are saying that it has improve the conditions of the school. In fact in the U.S. “19 percent of public schools reported their students wore uniforms”(Stocki 1). That shows just how much some public schools want to use uniforms. Even if all public school couldn’t use them many people have stated that there should at least be the option of having them. That being stated not all schools think that uniforms are important or needed. Even normal people have gone to state their opinion on school uniforms and the basically call them useless. As on very memorable comedian put it “ Don 't these schools do enough damage making …show more content…
School uniforms are very unique because there has to be a very fine balance in what to wear, where, to buy it, and how much it should cost. Like I said prices for uniforms are tricky and “Findings based on a poll of around 1,000 parents, found that 95 percent of mothers and fathers think school uniforms costs are unreasonable” (Sherwin 1). 95 percent of parents think prices are unreasonable and they still have to pay them. These parents are probably already straining to find money and they shouldn’t have to pay these prices. However for some schools uniforms are necessary and needed for that region (Sherwin). That is the only problem there are several more one of them being what to wear. Many people have wondered what should school policy be for uniforms, or even just a dress code and the answer seem to vary depending on the region or ideals of the school and community. There have been many debates on what to wear and “under president Clinton’s direction, the U.S. Department of Education published and disseminated a ‘Manual on School Uniforms’ to all 1,600 school districts in the U.S. encouraging the establishment of a school uniform policy” (Uniforms Timeline). This goes to show how much thought and debate goes into making a policy or uniform. The president had to make a manual on the subject and wasn’t even willing to let the school decide on what to wear. However those are only a couple