Uniformes

Should School Children Wear Uniforms?
In other parts of the world, they do wear school uniforms, even in public schools. In the United States, we know that school uniforms are normally limited toprivate schools. The question remains: should our school children wear uniforms to school?The reason I am asking this question is that in Bloomfield, kids in K-8 are going to be required to wear themcome fall. A post in Courant writes about this:
Proponents suggest that uniform policies improve safety. How many incidents of violence related to gang colors have occurred on the playground ofBloomfield elementary schools in the past five years and what was the reduction since the voluntary policy was implemented? How many incidents of 6 to 10 year old trespassers at Bloomfield elementaryschools that have been more easily identified with a uniform policy have actually occurred? The policy ‘solves’ problems that don’t exist. Putting a white polo shirt on a school bully will not eliminatethe bully; it will simply make more bullies wearing white polo shirts – making it more difficult to identify the perpetrator. Rather than improving safety this policy does the opposite. This conclusionis supported by empirical data that showed a negative effect on the perception of safety by both students and principals in schools with uniform policies.

So the bottom line is that children needto follow certain guidelines as to what they can wear in school. Let us look at both sides of the argument.

On the one hand, having children wear school uniforms can make it easier forauthorities to identify intruders – those who are not supposed to be within the school premises and who may pose threats to the children’s safety. Another argument would be that the families can save money onclothing as the children would have a set of uniforms to wear day in and day out.

On the other hand, if children already have enough clothes to wear to school, having to purchase new uniforms...