In schools, some students are poor while others are rich....
School Uniforms Should not be Required
School uniforms should be required because they encourage discipline, help students resist peer pressure to buy new clothes, and diminish economic and social barriers between students. First of all, school uniforms encourage discipline by making students focus on studying and homework rather than new clothes. In the morning, instead of worrying on different outfits, students can do school related activities like organizing their backpack, double-checking their homework, or studying. Students spend a lot of time thinking about clothing, but now, since they have uniforms, they no longer have to go through tedious shopping or hours of decisions of what to wear. School uniforms also help students resist the urge to buy designer clothing. When everyone is wearing the same uniform, the only time new clothes are nexus are weekends, holidays, and summer break, which is a lot less clothes than the entire school year. Clothes can often be used to define social statuses, but if there are no different clothes, people will have to rely on personality rather than the outfit they are wearing. In schools, some students are poor while others are rich. Poor students may have scholarships in order to afford school and have ragged clothes, while rich students may be supported by very wealthy parents and have expensive, fancy clothes. These completely different types of clothes make a huge difference in their popularity at school. Instead of comparing each others clothes, students can compare each others personality and intelligence, which makes a much larger difference. Although you argue that school uniforms destroy individuality, there really isn't really a way to express yourself using clothes. Clothing is only something you wear and, in no way, can be used to define yourself. You also insist that school uniforms create robot-like unity and decrease independence and creativity, but this is not accurate at all. Uniforms cannot affect the way you think, except for in productivity and usefulness. I also do not understand how wearing the same uniform creates "robots", because "robots" are defined as 'a machine resembling a human being and able to replicate certain human movements and functions automatically', but simply looking the same does not force them to somehow act the same. And since you also agree that uniforms do not affect how someone acts; this proves that uniforms will not harm how someone acts. Your turn, pro!