School Uniforms are unnecessary

School Uniforms are unnecessary. Reasons being, they do nothing for the schools. Everyone always thinks regular clothes cause fights, kids getting picked on, gangs, etc. Nothing changes. There are still fights, people getting picked on because they wear shirts or whatever with holes or stains on them, and gangs are gonna be gangs no matter what.

All uniforms are doing is costing people extra money. People have hard enough times buying regular clothes to go out or go to church in. They don't to waste their hard earned money on boring solid colors. I believe this is a free country and we all should be able to wear what we want. We are living in a recession. Do they really think we can afford 3 or 4 different kinds of clothing? Kids in the elementary schools, their parents have to see them come home with dirt stains on their uniforms from the play ground or spaghetti sauce from lunch. That could eventually ruin their uniforms.

Why be so strict on the students? Especially elementary, do people really think those kids are going to remember to tuck their shirts in? I believe that uniforms cause nothing but trouble. Especially when people get sent home because of it. For instance,I got suspended for 3 days because my shirt wasn't tucked in good enough. I was rushing to class so I wouldn't be late. I didn't even notice that I was "out of dress code" , I think education is more important than the color of your shoes or your shirt not being tucked in.

The 'equity' argument goes like this: If children wear uniforms, they do not notice differences between children from rich and from poor families.

School uniforms may make all students look alike. But why do the teachers not wear the same uniforms? The teacher is allowed to dress casually, while the student has to wear silly clothes intended to make the student look stupid. Houses close to private schools are often substantially more expensive than similar houses close to state schools. On the street, children are identified by their uniform. "Oh, you come from that poor school, you dummy!" is an example of what children say to each other when they look at each other's uniform. And even in the classroom, uniforms only accentuate differences in length, hair color and other physical characteristics.

Children consequently judge each other by their physical appearances. One can argue whether it were better if children judged each other by their clothes instead. Taking away children's right to choose what to wear does not make live any easier, it just makes children accustomed to conformity, to following orders and walking in line without thinking, without making a choice. This creates a huge amount of psychological problems later in life, it reduces the opportunity to get good work, it reduces the overall quality of life, in some respects it is a form of child abuse to systematically deny children choice. Uniforms are made with polycotton, apart from being more expensive, polycotton is also very hot, which is a problem in hot climates.

Teachers may argue that school uniforms set a clear standard of what the students are to wear, but school uniforms may just as well get dirty as any other clothes and school uniforms may just as well tear apart after a fight or a fall. Having school uniforms does no necessarily make it easier to see whether the clothes are dirty or ragged.