Uniforms in Schools

Leaders in Washington and school administrators continue to debate whether or not public schools initiate a mandatory school uniform requirement. Since the controversy surrounding these arguments’ implement a number questions, school administrators and parents throughout the United States struggle to conclude a decision if this mandatory policy is worthy. Individuals could conclude within reasons, that statistical studies are accurate or questionable. Some statistics are considerably detailed in regards to rebutting these claims, while others are only speculative research. Debates from, gang related colors, freedom of expression, grades were a concern, but the most interesting topic was peer pressure. Parents argued that with mandatory uniforms their children were more subjective to peer-pressure.

Peer-pressure by definition is “social pressure on somebody to adopt a type of behavior, dress, or attitude in order to be accepted as part of a group”. Having mandatory uniform policies may offer many benefits, for example, wearing similar type of clothing can decrease harassment between children; ultimately allowing children to feel that they are included as part of a group regardless of what they are wearing. The expressions of individualities are not exposed through clothing, rather than the way interactions which verbal communications is conducted. Giving a child a choice to express themselves verbally rather than their appearance, gives students valuable relation skills which can be used in classroom discussion. These types of interactions are paramount in the building stages of building self respect and understanding socialistic behavior, especially at a young age.

It is well known through social media and the com...

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...n, and teaches schools how to create and enforce a successful implementation of mandating uniforms for students. The most important rule to integrate this policy is to require strong support by schools officials, community leaders but most importantly parent’s involvement. http://www.ed.gov/updates/uniforms.html

There is no doubt that students can and will become objective with their appearance, and clothing trends. In every study associated with this topic there are both good points and bad points. As in every debatable topic, there is no definitive winner, or determined outcome which will please both parties. Every statistic conducted will prove positive and negative results, however, the decision making process is lengthy, and it takes precious time away from the resources we cherish which is providing the best educational institutions for our children.