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Private Schools Should Have Their Students Wear Uniforms

My opponent has failed to recognize that private schools have the right to institute their own rules, and do so without permission or thoughts from the parents. My opponent’s response to my arguments is similar, and mine will be also. My opponent entirely misses the point; he ignores the argument itself and instead responds with “that should be the decision of so-and-so.” By completely dodging the argument itself, he has essentially dropped the argument, and decided to argue something irrelevant to the topic at hand. The resolution isn’t that parents should have an active rule in making decisions with/for private schools. The resolution is that private schools should have school uniforms implemented. 1. Your response is irrelevant to my argument. I argued student equality and self-esteem in this section and you responded that patrons should be able to decide whether they send a student to a school that has uniforms. Implementing school uniforms institutes a controlled environment that helps take pressure off of children. 2. It doesn’t matter what the parents decide, or what the parents do about it. The fact remains that implementing school uniforms that free dress clothing is a potential distraction to students, and it’s a benefit to have that distraction removed via uniform implementation. 3. It is irrelevant what the parents and students want. This is a private school, and private schools have the sole power over any rules they decide to implement. Implementing uniforms eliminates a variable that is prone to bullying, which can therefore reduce bullying and victims. If bullying continues this time focused on a different variable, the problem lies within the bullies themselves and not any variables that are prone to being victim by bullies. At that point, schools should take action to eliminate bullying itself. In addition, your argument doesn’t even apply to how uniforms provide a sense of community, which is psychologically beneficial to students. 4. I am arguing that it is worth it, and that this is one of the several benefits uniforms provide. All of these benefits provide justification that schools implement school uniforms. 5. Same as three. 6. Again, it does not matter what families think; private schools exercise the sole power to implement any rules they want. You did not respond to the argument itself, and have therefore dropped the argument. 7. Again, its not about what parents think. The Long Beach study had every student in the district wear uniforms for years. This means that schools of all sorts had to have their students wear uniforms. Other than that, you have done nothing to refute the statistics I have presented showing that uniforms help to prevent student behavioral problems. This debate isn’t about what families think they need for their children; it is about private schools implementing a policy that is overall good for the well being of students as a whole. Private schools have the right to institute many rules that public schools cannot, including the ability to implement school uniforms.