No School Uniforms

Imagine how dull school days would be if students had to wear the same clothes every day. The school uniform system may not apply to your school, but I would like to tell you how school uniforms could make our lives horrible. Many schools are starting to adopt a uniform policy, which means it could find its way to your school. You might be a parent someday, or even now, and your kids might be in school. How would you feel if a uniform policy would force you to pay hundreds of dollars for a pair of clothes? Students should not have school uniforms because it does not produce the results that people say they do.School uniforms do not have any effect on the student’s behavioral problems or attendance.
According to the Notre Dame’s Department of Sociology in 1998, school uniforms have, “no direct effect on substance abuse, behavioral problems, or attendance.” It is not clothing that causes behavioral problems; it is he person who commits them. According to Ashley Crownover, spokeswoman for the Metro Parents Against Standard School Attire, in 2007, “research does not support claims that uniforms increase safety or improve academic performance. ”School uniforms force unnecessary costs upon families if schools are not willing to pay for them.
If parents have more than two or three kids, the cost of uniforms can easily surpass a couple hundred dollars.For example, Laura and Scott Bell from Indianapolis were forced to pay $641 for five sets of pants and shirts for their five children. Even if schools are willing to pay for uniforms, it is still could cost hundreds of thousands of dollars or more.
The Bell family filed suit over their public school’s uniform plan in Anderson, Indiana claiming that it violates the guarantee of a free public education. It violates the guarantee of a free public education because the family has to pay an additional $641 for their children to even enroll in the school. The right of free expression is violated when students are forced to wear schools uniforms. The right of free expression is violated because the students are forced to look a certain way before they are accepted into a public place. In the Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School case in 1969, court ruled that a student’s freedom of expression must be protected if it did not critically interfere with the requirements of correct discipline.
The requirements of appropriate discipline should be entirely based on how the administration disciplines the student. There was no reduction in incidents of inappropriate behavior by having students wear uniforms.
According to the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment, children are allowed to “wear clothing of their own choice.”
Due to the first and fourteenth amendments, students have a constitutional right of free expression. Clothing that students wear can be a constitutionally protected form of expression.
School uniforms are unlawful and they should not be used in school systems.
The perception that students will perform better by wearing school uniforms is both inaccurate and incorrect.
The cost of school uniforms can cause families to spend unnecessary amounts of money.
Student’s constitutional rights are violated when they are forced to wear school uniforms.
I hope you consider the negative effects and incorrect results that school uniforms produce.

Source:
Dowling-Sendor, Benjamin. "A Question of Rights vs. Authority." American School Board Journal (2001): 1-4. SIRS.

Motsinger, Carol. "Ironing Out Policies on School Uniforms." USA Today 5 Aug. 2007: 1-2. SIRS. McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.