Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Uniforms or not.
What do you think of uniforms for school? We wonder if it would make your life easier if your children had to wear a uniform to school? You wouldn't need to get all that new back to school clothing. You wouldn't have to feel the pressure of buying brand name items so you child fits in. What's your opinion.
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I most definitely think that schools should go back to having uniforms. The peer pressure today is worse than even a few years ago. That new Wal-mart commercial of the mother and daughter sitting in their car is a classic case of peer pressure marketing that pisses me off. I also see girls dressing up and wearing make-up to emulate girlicous and other trashy girl bands and pop artists. I have no problem with self expression, but the images portrayed by musicians and other celebrities of sleezy skimpy clothes are just over the top to me.
Being a single mom with one child starting junior high school & one starting high school today I think uniforms would be a fantastic idea (although I'm sure my kids wouldn't agree!!). Not only is there the expense of buying the brand names so your child can fit in there are also the other issues of certain groups who dress a certain way not liking other groups who dress a different way. They are judging each other based on the type of clothing each group wears. There is already enough pressure on teenagers as it is. Perhaps if they were all dressed the same, they would get to know people that they normally wouldn't have the opportunity to get to know based solely on what they are wearing.
I don't have any children but my former colleagues children went to a school where uniforms were required. I recall her saying how much easier it was for everyone and that her kids actually liked the uniforms. She said it was both affordable and time saving. Plus, when her children outgrew their outfits, she had the option of selling, donating or giving to someone in need and that was very rewarding. I think a no clothing class breakdown is the best way to go to class!
My daughter went to private school(not a high end school, one where sweat equity was part of tuition) for the first 4 years of her school life and they wore uniforms, it was so much easier then trying to keep up with the latest expensive trends and no judgements were made based on affordability, friendships were made based on personality. I also believe this made it easier for the teachers/parents who did lunch monitoring to recognize someone who was not normally on the school property so it was an added visual safety feature to have the uniforms present.
I don't think times are that different from when any of us went to school ... but the difference I see is the parents! They are the ones that instill values in their kids. Kids wouldn't care about brand names if they didn't learn it from their parents. When I was in school (1970's) there were kids who always wore the top fashions, but they were the well to do kids. The average kids wore clothes that their parents bought them and they knew that was the way it was. You could cry and beg to get clothes like "the others" but if you were middle classed, you wore what your parents told you to wear. Now, I find a lot of middle class families living like they are well to do but they are still middle income families. But the houses the build, the cars they drive ... it's like they have to get bigger and bigger and keep up with the Jones's. Kids feed off that and model their behaviour from what they learn.
i would just like to say uniforms would make all kids equal nobody would be any better than anybody else,it's a shame that kids are made to feel poor by their peers, uniforms would end that.
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