Uniforms

Are uniforms really necessary? Are they really doing us a favor? Some find uniforms helpful and others find them excruciating. There are many pros and cons to uniforms but if you actually have to wear them it may be easier to find the negatives.

Uniforms tend to cause less hassle in the morning. This is because you don’t have to spend hours finding the perfect outfit to wear to school. Along with that you won’t have to worry about keeping up with the latest fashion trends. Uniforms can also help families save money by not having to buy expensive trendy new clothes every few months. Uniforms are usually made out of stronger more durable materials, and because of this they don’t need to be replaced quite as often.

Some of the negatives related to wearing uniforms are that they make us all look the same and can trend to strip us of our individuality. While there is efficiency in this uniformity in terms of getting dressed quickly and eliminating class differences between different family economic positions, it still inhibits our capacity to express our individual character and creativity. There is a cost to this suppression of individual expression and I think many of our more artistically minded students suffer from this forced uniformity. To help with this, I believe that we should all be able to accessorize our uniforms with our own unique and modest accessories. There could be limits to the kind of accessories allowed (kind and size), but this could open the door to greater personal expression of our own unique identities.

Although uniforms can be very helpful, they strip us of our individuality.

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