What would you do?

[GreasyItalianPrincess]

i don't like uniforms, either. set clothing regulations, but no need to make it completely without any individual identity.

[KensPen]

exactly!
why do republicans always talk about smaller government, then try to regulate your every waking moment.

[GreasyItalianPrincess]

Ideoligcal parties that are out-of-touch tend to make blanketstatements without realizing the effects or reprecussions.

[Black Lazerus]

Originally posted by GreasyItalianPrincess
i don't like uniforms, either. set clothing regulations, but no need to make it completely without any individual identity.

They have that now but kids don't follow it because they know they cn just go and bithc to their parents.

I think uniforms are a good idea.

[KensPen]

so if they have it now...(a rule)
and it changes to a new rule....

what makes you think that rule would be followed...

I am also against writing new laws, when simple enforcement of existing ones could solve a problem.

[MYLF]

Originally posted by GreasyItalianPrincess
i don't like uniforms, either. set clothing regulations, but no need to make it completely without any individual identity.

The point is that you're at school to learn. Every place has the haves and have nots and parents who care what their kids wear and those that don't, having everyone wear uniforms levels the playing field and also reduces distractions. There's enought stress as a teenager without factoring in trendy clothes. And guidelines are open to interpretation, uniforms are not. And you can express your indivuality apart from clothes, and if it is through clothes, school isn't exactly 24/7.

[GreasyItalianPrincess]

Originally posted by MYLF

Originally posted by GreasyItalianPrincess
i don't like uniforms, either. set clothing regulations, but no need to make it completely without any individual identity.

The point is that you're at school to learn. Every place has the haves and have nots and parents who care what their kids wear and those that don't, having everyone wear uniforms levels the playing field and also reduces distractions. There's enought stress as a teenager without factoring in trendy clothes. And guidelines are open to interpretation, uniforms are not. And you can express your indivuality apart from clothes, and if it is through clothes, school isn't exactly 24/7.

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[MYLF]

That's not a good argument against it.

[GreasyItalianPrincess]

Originally posted by MYLF
That's not a good argument against it.

It is an arbitrary, heavy-handed intrusion into the most fundamental individual rights: the rights of parents to determine how best to rear their children and the right of the students to express their individuality, subject only to parental control. It is an erosion of individual liberty.

Is the issue really school uniforms or just bad parental supervision...and does school uniforms really address that fundemental breakdown?

[MYLF]

It's neither one of those things. The issue is that clothes/who has what etc. is distracting in school, and it doesn't benefit kids at all. It's an additional pressure that can be eliminated, and as a by-product, it can help those who have clueless parents.