Students should be required to wear school uniform.
Thank you for your arguments. As your 1st argument, that it will violate students'
freedom of expression, may be true, it can be true in a harmful way. For example,
this will stimulate the popularity hierarchy once students could dress whatever they
want. The ones with the fancy clothes could easily become the top dogs of the school,
which wouldn't happen if uniforms were banned. And the 1st amendment says that yes,
there may be freedom of expression, but then why don't we ban uniforms altogether?
There are lots of private schools out there that still use uniforms. Why don't we
just ban uniforms in those schools? As for your 2nd argument, yes, uniforms are expensive,
but normal clothes that popular girls and boys buy to show everyone that they are
"cool" are also expensive, maybe even more. They buy them in loads. Open any girl's
wardrobe and you would find tons of dresses and jeans that would cost much more than
249$, I can assure you. And besides, even if some students do not buy so much clothes,
this is still only a one-time thing. They just need to buy it once, and that is it.
For just 249$ a kid, we could substantially improve our national debt. A poor family could at least afford 249$ for one kid, and if they can't (which is
highly unlikely) they will not be denied the opportunity. The school could pay for them. And finally, for your last argument, that it causes bullying,
that is highly unlikely as students will not wear the uniform outside of school. If students want to express themselves, which you had said yourself, then they wouldn't
wear the uniforms unless required. Therefore students would only wear them inside school. And even if this is not true, our nation isn't so corrupted that fistfights and
riots would break out just because of uniforms. And bullying is mainly inside a single school, not a rival school student picking on another school student. No one would bully a stranger that they don't even know, unless they are
a gang member, and gang members don't go to school. Before I end, I would like to add to my previous contentions. Since you have not
given me your opinions on my contentions, I assume you agree with me. If not, then please tell me why you do not believe so. 1. Discipline/honor It creates a discipline needed for the real world, and it also
gives the atmosphere a more honorable feeling. Students would feel more honored to
don their school uniform. It creates a sense of pride. 2. Eliminates popularity system By closing
the gaps between the well-dressed students and the poor-dressed students by giving
them all a mutual uniform, we are making friendship more easier. A common barrier
of friendship is popularity, and popularity is partly caused by clothing. Once students
all wear the same uniform, they can accept others for their inside, not outside. 3.
Lastly this generates revenue for the government. As my opponent has kindly stated,
uniforms cost 249$. Imagine all the schools in the country, with huge numbers of students
enrolling, multiplied by 249$. That can generate pretty big revenue. And while this
can inflict some financial damage to poor families, it truly does not really hurt
them, as 1. They should be able to scrape at least 249$, and 2. if they can't the
school will pay for them. Thank you.
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