School_Uniform

Dear Board of Education, I have been living in the school district for five years and I heard of public schools making their students wear uniforms. I say that students shouldn’t wear uniforms. I say that students shouldn’t make their students wear uniforms because there hasn’t been any reports of gang violence when not wearing a school uniform. Students wouldn’t be able to express themselves. Schools and parents alike can spend a lot of money on buying school uniforms. It has been argued that wearing school uniform,s show school spirit. However, kids will not like the idea of public schools making their students wear uniforms. First off, it is thought that when children don’t have uniforms, they can pushed around easily by what they wear, but there has been no reports of violence without uniforms. Schools think that uniforms can control the violence by wearing uniforms but, it doesn’t solve anything. In the year 1993 to 1994, their has been six assaults with deadly weapons, 1,135 incidents of fights, and 29 robberies. (These results were taken by the Long Beach Unified School District.) From these results you can see that uniforms can’t solve anything. Next, no one gets to express themselves in their own way. Kids could lose their personality time by time, knowing the fact that the colors are boring. Again, as being bullied, you could be made fun of. The fact that the uniform could look horrible and boring looking, it will make the other schools think of you as foolish. You will have to see it every day for the whole year and some are hard to maintain. Some people think that uniforms could lower drug abuse and probably vandalism. Their have been 1049 incidents of vandalism. Lastly, you would have to spend a lot of money on uniforms. A pair of good pants would probably cost 40 dollars while the shirt could cost 30 dollars. They put the uniforms on these prices because of the quality they are made of. It would be easier just to buy your own clothes and pick them yourself. By the end of the year you can grow out of your clothes, even in 4 months. You would have to buy new clothes and again the cycle begins. Your clothes can easily get dirty and you would have to buy a new pair and again that is its own cycle. I know that wearing uniforms could be a good affect on the campus but, students don’t agree with this idea. If you make kids wear uniforms they’re going to get mad and if they have no choice but to wear uniforms. They’re going to probably not take warnings and not listen to you anyways. Finally, schools shouldn’t make their kids wear uniforms. You could enforce a few dress codes like no pants that go above the knees.