School uniform should be abolished
School may not be viewed on live television, but a school uniform is the uniform you wear
during class periods as well as the Phys. Ed uniforms and team uniforms that are used to represent the school, everything comes hand in hand. The same goes
for uniforms of different professions, are you going to argue that students down the
line when they have jobs like doctors, lawyers and police that they should be able
to have the option to wear shorts and a t-shirt if they were a doctor? Of course not,
uniforms are put in place for the best of the worker and society. If you were in need
of serious help and needed a police officer, how would you be able to tell the difference
between a regular civilian and a police officer if there was no uniform? If you want
to get rid of uniforms in school, you are setting youth up on a path to thinking that
their creativity is more important than the task at hand. I attend a uniform school
and I have all my life, I have also lived in different countries and I know the way
the schools work around the world, by your choice of words I can tell you are from
the United Kingdom. (Referring to your use of 'GCSE' and 'posh' and other Brit centred
words.) In the United Kingdom, 82 percent of state schools ( public schools for my
fellow North Americans) require primary students to wear a uniform, by the end of
a child's time in pre university education, 98% of English schools ( State and Independent/
Public and Private ) require a student to wear a uniform. So if we return to your
starting statement where you say that: 'When a bully sees a child in a uniform they
immediately suspect that they have rich parents that spoil them. Then they then assume this, therefore, means that they have a posh expensive phone. This leads to mugging and then bullying.' This is untrue. State and independent schools
have uniforms and most people at these schools aren't in fact 'rich' and 'posh', and even if they
went to a fee paying Independent school, in England alone over "850 million of bursaries alone are given each year to young
flourishing minds who can't afford the luxury of a fee paying school. (Sources National Registry and the Financial Times) Dress coding does take up time
unfortunately, but the way to combat this isn't to take up a students class or free
period time. If you want to save time, just enforce uniform rules and be done with
it. You stated that I said students split into social groups and that I quoted "the
popular," "the sporty," and the "geeks.", I never made any reference to that, and
you also say that Uniform has nothing directly to do with friend groups, If a uniform
was not enforced and there were richer spoilt kids alongside poorer less spoilt kids,
I'm sorry, but the richer spoilt kids who think they're better (Don't try to deny
this every school has one) than everybody else, are not going to come and start being friendly towards
the less fortunate. Also I still don't see you citing your sources. Next time before you go after me, make sure you are not going to embarrass yourself
by still not fixing the same mistake you have an issue with.