School Uniform

i like the idea of school uniforms, mainly for the schools appearance.
but i also hate the idea of uniforms, because they are horrible.
in my school we get lectures all the time about how school uniform is a must.
i understand how they dont want people showing off their branded clothes and new trainers blah blah, but as i've heard from a teacher on a "own clothes day" that the students seemed calmer without having to wear school uniform.

I wore uniforms for 7 years and it was bearable, but not ideal. Some teachers would start to care more about if your shirt was tucked in and whether you had your cardigan for mass than if you were actually learning anything.
And it doesnt make anyone equal at all. Kids will always find a way to pick on one another and clothing is only one way to do that. Even wearing uniforms my class had the obvious 'jocks' and 'nerds' and 'sluts'.

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And it doesnt make anyone equal at all. Kids will always find a way to pick on one another and clothing is only one way to do that. Even wearing uniforms my class had the obvious 'jocks' and 'nerds' and 'sluts'.

But it helps eliminate one of the things that people can pick on.
By taking away the difference in clothes, in a way, you are making people equal.
Kids no longer have that advantage of putting themselves above people because of clothes.

Even if it is only one way to prevent bullying, if it helps one person, isn't it worth it?

idk i just don't think it helps at all. From what i saw uniforms weren't even a roadblock in bullying, it was just completley irrelevant. Of course this was kindergarten through 6th grade i had uniforms so non of us really knew any better anyways and had never used clothes as a way of bullying.

Of course it takes away our indivisuality, and it would be awesome to be able to wear what you wanted to.
But, I think people get picked on a lot over the clothes they wear. And if some kid is poor, and can't afford 'cool' clothes, or repeats outfits many times, they would get teased A LOT.

You guys made some really good points.
My school has a dress code, but it's not like anyone actually follows it. I just feel bad for the kids who DO follow it, and get made fun of for doing so. But the uniform makes me feel really awkward. I wear band tees almost every day of my life, so it's really difficult to be confident when I feel like crap.
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I wore a school uniform at my old school in England, but most schools have them there. I like not having to wear a uniform anymore, but I wouldn't mind if I had to wear one. We have a dress code at my school, but the teachers don't enforce it, and some of the shirts people wear are riduculously inappropriate sometimes. I was also made fun of for the way I dressed in middle school, and having a uniform would definately have prevented that. I'm kind of indifferent to uniforms because there are positives and negatives both ways. I think uniforms limit expression to some extent, but we focused on things we could control, like shoes.

I hate it. We have long kilts that blow apart in the wind, and we're not allowed safety pins or anything like that. It's not warm, not comfy and not practical, unlike home clothes. Sixth formers can wear them, why not us?

School trips are easy enough to manage, and we always go in home clothes anyway and anyone stupid enough to go off on their own can be rung up.
We don't really have money-based groups, so that wouldn't be a problem, and I board, so people wear their own clothes a lot of the time anyway. People don't pick on each other's clothes, there are other things to think about.

Uniform costs so much money, and it doesn't take that much effort to put on jeans, shoes, a t-shirt and a hoodie in the mornings. I personally find it easier to work in clothes I've chosen because I like them, not because I'm forced to.

Other countries manage well enough without uniform; why can't we?

I live in Russia and we mustn't wear school uniform... in our school xD So I'm very happy because I can put on my favourite clothes.

i personally hate my school uniform. but i would rather have it then wearing my own clothes. its bad enough at a 5 day camp wearing my own clothes and people looking at me a bit weird cause i don't wear loads of "in" clothes like short shorts and tons and tons of makeup. i think its a good idea because then there's one less thing for people to tease you about.
i think most schools in NSW, and australia have a uniform and we seem to manage pretty good with it. i just think they should be a bit more updated and have a few styles to suite different body shapes. im pretty lucky that mine has a belt-ish thing that sorta gives it a bit of shape, but i had to by a pretty big uniform for myself because im not exactly a small girl. thats one of the things i hate about uniforms is that there ugly and unflattering.
as for the taking away our individuality part, it does in a way, but your personality should make you an individual, no matter what your wearing, and also, you have hair, it doesn't have to be as boring and ugly as your uniform.

I think that it's good we have school uniforms. It'd be a never-ending contest to get the better clothes for school to try and impress everybody. At least with uniforms you can't have a bad clothes day, no matter how ugly it is, because everybody is wearing the same thing.

I think school uniforms are a complete waste of money.
In my school, it doesn't stop any kind of bullying whatsoever, because there's still fashions within school uniform, so people can still tell who gets their clothes from where and how much they cost.
It doesn't make everyone equal, it makes everyone the same.
The other day, me and my mum were in the car on the way back from the orthodontist and we drove past the school my little siblings go to and they were outside for their break, and i couldn't recognise them. My own siblings. Because they were all in the same clothes. They all looked the same. I just thought "what are they doing to these kids?".
And i just got back to school after getting 4 As and a B, and by the end of the first day, I hadn't been congratulated once, but had been moaned at beacuse you couldn't see my tie (my fleese was zipped up). They care more about uniform than they do about the grades.
And no, it doens't strip people of their individuality. There are other ways people can individulise themselves, but that is exactly why it doesn't stop bullying. But it is trying to make everyone the same.
They say it's preparing us for the future, because you have to wear uniforms in jobs, and yes, you do, for some of them. For the one I'm going into, you don't. You don't at college, you don't at university, but you do at school. College and University prepare you for your future job more than school does, but you don't have to wear uniform there.
So, overall, uniform is pointless and costs a fortune.

^ At my school, you get your uniform at Griffith's And Valentinos, the school shop. All the clothes are the same.

I agree that it does cost a fortune though. We have to wear blazers which cost £35, not including the school badge - and they get wrecked so easily.

I don't think that uniforms make the students equal but but they are a good idea. They kid of unify the school. I wouldn't mind wearing one as long as it wasn't dead-ugly. They are expensive though.

last year i went to a public school. no uniform.
now i got to a catholic school. uniform.
i agree with Lovesick Melody. sometimes it is better to wear uniform. no teasing. you all look the same.

but sometimes you just want to be unique. and you hate looking like everyone else.

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last year i went to a public school. no uniform.
now i got to a catholic school. uniform.
i agree with Lovesick Melody. sometimes it is better to wear uniform. no teasing. you all look the same.

but sometimes you just want to be unique. and you hate looking like everyone else.

To be honest, I think it's more likely there's no teasing in the Catholic school beacuse it's a Catholic school rather than because there' s uniform.
I was teased in my first primary school, but moved to a catholic school and wasn't. Both schools have uniform.

frank iero!:

yeah it kinda sucks having to wear the same thing as everyone else, but the thing is, it's not your clothes who define
who you are. :]

Which I reckon is the reason why uniform doesn't prevent teasing. People know what you're like regardless of what you're wearing.

Just Steph, just because a school is a Catholic school doesn't mean there will be no teasing or bullying. In fact I'm not really sure what your point is.