• CON

    You have to wear proper attire and on Fridays wear...

    Schools should have uniforms

    It hinders creativity and Individuality. At the beginning of the school year schools usually tell the students that the school supports their individuality. When uniforms are enforced there is no individuality when everyone is wearing the same thing. 2.It prepares children for the worst. A common argument is that it prepares children for the future. I think it does the opposite. When you get an office job you get a dress code. This is the case with most other jobs. You have to wear proper attire and on Fridays wear whatever as long as it's a appropriate. Jobs that require uniforms are usually for fast food restaurants, janitorial duties and waiting jobs. It's telling kids not to reach for the stars but keep your expectations low. 3.Independence When a child is told what to do they never learn. They just follow direction. So if faced with a challenge in real life they never know what to do. If you give a child a uniform it stops them from being independent. In the mornings when they get dressed when all they have to do is reach for that same pair of slacks and blouse there is nothing independent about that. When they have to work for a real job they will see that there is more to getting dressed then throwing on what they have to where. You have to make sure it's appropriate and fits properly. You have to make sure it matches. This prepares kids to understand how much time they need in the morning and wake up accordingly. I await pro's arguments.

    • https://www.debate.org/debates/Schools-should-have-uniforms/3/
  • PRO

    Now, this could be a clever trick to make me think they...

    TROLL DEBATE: School Uniforms Should Not Be Required

    "Now, this could be a clever trick to make me think they don't have plans for world domination..." Yes, yes it is. You have fallen for the genius scientist's ploy. Fortunately I'm a genius as well. (A genius lawyer, that is.) I have already sued the scientist and hoped that law can catch him in time. Meanwhile we should take action all around the world! If they don't wear uniforms, they will return to normal! Evidence has shown this: http://regularshow.wikia.com... So, don't work! Slack off! Those methods work too. But the most efficient way is taking off the uniform!

  • PRO

    Schools should enforce uniforms for four reasons. ......

    schools should have uniforms

    Schools should enforce uniforms for four reasons. 1. Uniforms create unity 2. Nobody gets made fun of for having a poor or different sense of fashion 3. There are less fights in schools with uniforms 4. Kids who go to schools that enforce uniforms get more used to following rules and get into less trouble as adults

    • https://www.debate.org/debates/schools-should-have-uniforms/1/
  • PRO

    So if you wore uniforms in 5th grade and then switched to...

    Should schools require uniforms

    Being bullied by kids because you wear uniforms does happen a lot, but If all schools started having their students wear uniforms it would be less of a problem. So if you wore uniforms in 5th grade and then switched to 6th there wouldn't be any discrimination towards other students. Also, whether you wear uniforms or not you will always be stereotyped, wearing uniforms prevents you from being further stereotyped based on the style of your clothing, if everyone chose their own clothes, one kid may be called gay because he likes to wear pink shirts even if he is not gay, or a girl might be called poor if her clothes are all stained and worn and she might just be living with parents who don't take the time to buy her new clothes. Wearing uniforms prevents kids from judging each other because they are all put on the same level wearing the same thing.

    • https://www.debate.org/debates/Should-schools-require-uniforms/3/
  • CON

    Then they then assume this, therefore, means that they...

    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.

    • https://www.debate.org/debates/School-uniform-should-be-abolished/1/
  • PRO

    Definitions Uniform - Identical clothing issued to school...

    Private Schools Should Have Students Wear Uniforms

    Hello. Simple debate, I will be Pro and I will argue that students should wear school uniforms in private schools. Definitions Uniform - Identical clothing issued to school students to wear during school. Student - Person who is recieving an education whether through school, or by other means. Rules 1. Forfeit will resut in an auto loss and all 7 points going to the other person. 2. No semantics. 3. No trolling. 4. Nothing that would be considered innapropriate to the average DO member i.e plagiarism.

  • PRO

    This would not happen however because the students would...

    Students should wear uniforms.

    As to your comment in your previous post, in 2013 a student was charged with indecent exposure when said student paraded around the Carnegie Mellon University half dressed. My first point is that students are often pressured to wear the 'right clothes'. Sometimes to the extreme of bullying. This would not happen however because the students would be dressed in the congruent uniform. to back that up, a study was done with more 1,500 teens and 64% were bullied because of clothing. Thus bullying would go down. Secondly, if the school leaders decide on a females uniform that us not tight, revealing, etc., then the male students would pay more attention in class. The sexual offenses would go down as well. One study was done by the u.s. Department of Education and it states that sexual offenses fell 74% after the uniform policy took affect. My final reason is that it would flat out help behavior. School crime, fights, and as I mentioned, sexual offenses would all significantly come down. In the study I already mentioned This would not happen however because the students would be dressed in the congruent uniform. to back that up, a study was done with more 1,500 teens and 64% were bullied because of clothing. Thus bullying would go down. Secondly, if the school leaders decide on a females uniform that us not tight, revealing, etc., then the male students would pay more attention in class. The sexual offenses would go down as well. One study was done by the u.s. Department of Education and it states that sexual offenses fell 74% after the uniform policy took affect. My final reason is that it would flat out help behavior. School crime, fights, and as I mentioned, sexual offenses would all significantly come down. In the study I already mentioned school crime fell 36%! After they started with a uniform! Fights decreased by 51%! And sexual offenses fell 74%. So since I see no valid reason to do otherwise, uniforms should be made mandatory! Thank you.

    • https://www.debate.org/debates/Students-should-wear-uniforms./1/
  • PRO

    I am repeating myself because it applies to what you are...

    Private Schools Should Have Their Students Wear Uniforms

    I am repeating myself because it applies to what you are arguing. My entire opening argument explained many benefits of implementing school uniforms, but you chose to drop ever argument.

  • CON

    Thanks to Pro for the challenge. I will be arguing that...

    sholud school uniform be given or not

    Thanks to Pro for the challenge. I will be arguing that school uniforms should not be required for two main reasons. 1. How we dress is an expression of our personalities. Requiring uniforms stifles a child's creativity, and ability to express himself through his/her wardrobe. 2. Dress codes can be enforced that stop kids from wearing clothing that can be a distraction, in the learning environment, thus there is no need to exert authority over what kids wear to school so long as it meets standards of decency. I look forward to Pro's arguments.

    • https://www.debate.org/debates/sholud-school-uniform-be-given-or-not/1/
  • CON

    Uniform has bad influences on our youth, because KZ youth...

    High school students should wear uniforms.

    oh, my friend, we are not living in the Sovet Union, not in ancient times. I repeat it is modern time. if we want to develop our country and take a place in the modern countries. Uniform has bad influences on our youth, because KZ youth want to be like American. So, it is useful, if we give our youth children, and it helps them to be more confident, creatively and more free. we cannot take youth's rights from their young age. To sum up, we shouldn't take uniforms as necessity.

    • https://www.debate.org/debates/High-school-students-should-wear-uniforms./1/