When buying uniforms for the school, you cannot assume...
School Uniforms are a good idea
I, for one, do not think that school uniforms are a good idea for the follwing reasons: 1) Uniforms cost money. Obviously, school uniforms, like any other type of clothing, can be very costly. Where will the money come from? The taxpayers (some of which won't even benefit from the uniforms)? State funding? Either way you go with this, someone is going to have to pay for something that they probably don't even want. 2) Students come in all shapes and sizes. It's quite noticable that today's students are all very different in size. When buying uniforms for the school, you cannot assume that one size fits all. You'd have to size the students, order the uniforms, and then return them if they don't fit right. It's a continious, costly, cycle. Also, what if a student is irregular in size? What if they are super tall and really skinny? Then they would have to be taylored to the needs of that one student. 3) Students need to be unique. Having every student in a school dress the same way is like saying 'hey, you're not allowed to be different. You have to dress like everyone else because it's easier that way.' There's a certain thrill that teenagers get when they buy new outfit and where it to school for the first time. That thrill could potentially be threatened by instating a school uniform policy in schools. Having these uniforms is pretty much censoring the real world from them. Students need to understand and accept the fact that some people are different, and they have no chance of learning that when everyone in their school dresses the same. That concludes my opening statment.