Students should wear uniforms
According to the first amendment I have the right to verbally be a jerk to other people,
I can be a racist and a bigot. According to the second amendment I have the right to carry a six shooter revolver
if I so please. Schools are public and private institutions, if it is private then it is providing
a service to it's customers and requires them to dress a certain way since it is their
business and they can do what they want, kind of like restaurants, "No Shirt, No Shoes,
No Service". Companies have the right to choose what people wear on their property
otherwise they won't provide you the goods and services they provide. The government
also has the right to choose what people wear on their property as well. When someone
else owns the property you happen to be on, you have to abide by their laws whether
it be a private entity or the federal government. If you don't like the rules of those
that own the property where you go to school then you have the option to be home schooled.
It is not a violation of your rights or civil liberties when you willingly go on someone
Else's property and choose to abide by their rules and policies. Let's say you were a smoker, outside you can smoke, but you are over at my house,
if I don't like smoking, I have the right to either have you stop smoking or leave. Am I violating your rights? Schools also ban
guns, foul language, bikinis, cigars, etc. All of which you can posses off of school property and are allowed to posses under the U.S. Bill of Rights. Would it be a violation
of ones civil liberties if someone wearing a bikini was cursing while producing a
revolver and smoking a cigar on a school was asked to leave? Of course not and it shouldn't be considered a violation of ones
rights if the school asks you to wear a shirt of a certain color if they so please. Their property, not
yours, their rules, not yours. Since my opponent is going off first hand experiences,
I will as well. In the schools my friends and I went to, students were still jerks
no doubt, but we as a school were far better academically. When we went to high school most of us did very well because the school we went to before was a private religious school that enforced a rather strict dress code. We were already very responsible, very
well disciplined students. Most people from my school were taking classes that were a higher level than others at the same age who came
from public schools. Now I'm going to take what you say about your personal experiences
as facts, assuming they are truthful. It could be very possible that the school that had worse students with uniforms than the students that are allowed to choose what you wear, are simply bad students.
Taking care of an wearing a uniform certainly won't turn delinquents into honor roll
students but you can't prove that wearing a uniform, somehow makes students perform
worse, which is your responsibility as the instigator. The U.S. service academies
(USAFA, Annapolis, West point, etc), also have strict rules regarding uniforms, these are some of the highest ranking colleges in the world where they train men
and women to become very competent officers in the military. Officers are the ones
who are in charge of nuclear weapons, radars, large groups of soldiers, fly jet fighters,
etc The instructors and the officers in charge of these establishments agree that
if their cadets were allowed to wear whatever they wanted, discipline would be severely
compromised, despite the fact that a cadet may still be a jackass or have a bad personality,
they would perform better in their activities both academic and athletic. I'm not
going to accept your "source" since that is simply hearsay and have no way of verifying
those comments of being accurate. I was already going out on a limb accepting what
you say as accurate. You are the instigator so you have the burden of proof to show
how having uniforms is somehow worse than being able to wear whatever you want. I have already made a
thorough argument explaining that it isn't a violation of ones rights when you are
on another entity's property and are forced to follow the rules they set. You have
to prove that having uniforms are somehow bad other than use the argument that they violate one's rights, which
they don't, and I can list a good enough amount of private and public schooling institutions
that require students to wear some kind of uniform that are either on par or exceed
other schools in performance.
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