R2: Does it help schools? ... [1]...
Puclic Schools Should Require Uniforms
~~Rebuttels~~ R1: Does uniforms save money? My opponent states that manditory school uniforms would help the parents financialy by saving them money. However this is simply untrue because in after having to manage things like books, sports, building costs, and utilities. The schools would not have enough money to fund uniforms. As a result taxes would have to be raised, and the parents would still be paying the same (if not more) for clothing. These clothing costs plus extra clothes for after school and weekends would end up costing them more. This would hurt the parents escpecially the parents of multiple children. It would be way better to just leave it the parents to buy regular clothes for their children. R2: Does it help schools? It probably would help schools a little, however if one thinks for a minute (particularly on my first rebuttel) you will see that it would hurt parents. Now for some of the poorest families in this pretty ruff economy they can barely afford books and supplies. How are they to have the money to buy extra sets of clothes? It would just cause problems for the families of America and do more harm then good. ~~My Arguments~~ C1: Forcing kids to dress alike will only help create more followers than leaders. My first contention will be about the harm done to students capibilities both during school years and after school years. It really would hurt the students capibilities. I mean think about what it would be like to be told what to do in every aspect of ones life, and then all of the sudden being put into a situation where one has to make ones own discisions. School uniforms set some students up for failure when it comes to making their own decisions about who they are and how they're going to present themselves to the world. It would deminish individual responsability and would foster the attitude that the kids would be drones that would be told what to do in every part of their lives and would ultimately create more followers the leaders. C2: Uniforms are unconstitutional. Since public schools are owned and ran by the government then they are subject to the same laws that govern the governmnet that owns and funds them. The right to free expression is a first amendment right and also a fundemental right that the government can't take away at anytime [1]. By inforcing manditory uniforms the governmnet would be trouncing on the constitutional rights of students everywhere and that would be wrong. I will now await my opponent's response. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org...