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School Uniforms are a good idea

In one of your rebuttals, you stated the following: "...in some schools they just have the children wear khaki pants and a specific color polo or cardigan." In your opening statement, however, you stated this: "In lower income communities uniforms could be a good idea because parents wouldn't have to worry about buying brand name clothing for their children and children wouldn't feel pressured to have brand name items to fit in because everyone would have the same clothing as they did." First you stated that there should not be competition of clothing styles in areas of education to prevent bullying. Then you said that a uniform does not have to be school-supplied; that you could just wear a certain color polo and khakis. It seems to me to be a contradiction when you say that one's clothes should be provided to him/her in attempt to avoid teasing and jealousy but likewise to that, you stated that students could provide their own uniform clothing. There are several different brands and styles of khakis, no? Couldn't someone get picked on for having a less-expensive, worn-out, pair of pants, and a moth-eaten polo from the 90's? There is no way to put an end to bullying. Bullies look at people under a microscope to pick these very small diversities that make make them the least bit different. If they can't make fun of a person's clothes, then they will make fun of their hair. If they can't make fun of their hair then they will make fun of their glasses. It's a continuous cycle and their is no way to stop it - and forcing students to wear uniforms, regardless of how generic they are, certainly isn't going to help either. In your second rebuttal, you stated that students could still be unique while having on a uniform. While I do think that that is partially true, I find it how much your clothes speak for your personality. You are familiar with Lady Gaga's meat dress, correct? What does that say about her? It says that she's a very whimsical character and tends to live on edge. I realize that you can also deduce that information from listening to her music, however, but think about all of the people that didn't even know who she was? Your clothes tend to work a lot of magic in a first impression. Taking away that part of someone can completely alter their personality. As for your next three arguments: 1) I do not think that clothes are that big of a distraction to begin with. Not once in my career as a student have I witnessed a full-fledged conversation about someone's clothing while class was going on. 2) Peer pressure is yet another thing that is unavoidable. If someone doesn't like a certain type of clothing then they do not have to buy it. Due, I don't think that there is a huge consequence even if they do buy a type of clothing that they normally would not wear. 3) I do not understand how school uniforms could in any way speed up the getting-ready-for-school process. In fact, depending on the uniform, I think that it may even take longer. I think that putting on a simple pair of jeans and a t-shirt is a bit easier than putting on a pair of dress pants, a dress shirt and a tie. Arguments: - Uniforms could potentially become hazardous. In the summer time, schools are hot. If a student has one pair of clothes, and they are super hot, people could pass out, whereas if you could choose your clothes, you can dress in accordance with the weather, therefor preventing the risk of passing out an being distracted during school hours.