School uniform
is special clothes worn by all students of a particular school. The uniform of
a school may different from another. Why should schools use uniform? Below are
some reasons. First of all, Notre Dame’s Department of Sociology produced a
study in 1998 concerning school uniforms. Their findings use 10th
grades students showed that uniforms have no direct effect on “substance abuse,
behavioral problems or attendance.”
Secondly,
uniform helps to create a strong sense school ethos and sense of belonging to a
particular community. As such it promotes discipline and helps to drive up
academic standards, which is why a uniform is often adopted by school which are
being reopened with a fresh start after being classified as failing.
Finally, uniform
acts as a social leveler, under which all students are equal in the eyes of the
school and of each other. In institutions without uniform students are often
competitive and worry endlessly about their appearance and the clothes they should
wear. Pupils without expensive designer clothes and trainers may be singled out
as social. Outcast, or stigmatized as being from poor backgrounds. For these
reason many parents prefer uniforms as they save them money on buying clothes
for school wear.
Considering the
findings, schools should implement the uniforms as their identity. The
government should also publish some kind of rule which makes uniforms compulsory
for schools.
Taken from: interlanguage
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