All Osceola students must wear uniforms

"Students need to learn how to make choices because they're going to be out in the world soon enough..."

Just like those students who made the decision to riot at Wet-n-Wild.

There's a reason why school districts are taking drastic measures.

finally Osceola does something right. Well done!

Hello? Gangs wear 'uniforms', too; they have 'gang colors'. So what problem has been solved? Whenever school boards can't figure out how to improve grades, drop out rates or conduct, they fall back on that tired old solution of making all the kids wear the same types of clothes. And this will make them study more? Do homework? Stop beating on each other and teachers?

Let's try something radical and old. You mess up once, you get detention for a day. Mess up twice, detention for a week. Three times - find another school.

I'm not a teacher and I don't have kids in school. But I would rather that my tax dollars go to a teacher to teach, not to become a wardrobe coach. I DO remember strict dress codes, back when dinosaurs ran around and I was in school. If someone thought a girl's skirt was too short, it was measured - and she got sent home. End of story. No inspection to see if it was the right color or what. Sheesh...

kids need to go to school to learn and not for a fashion show. When i was in High School in a rural town us who were poorer were always picked on becuase we had fake pumas and other clothes. My mom always told me to not worry that school is for learning andnot a fashion show so i studied hard and graduated from the University of Iowa and i know a lot of the "cool girls" didn't and although uniforms is a start we need more invested in our schools. we lacked a lot of electronics in my school as a child and that isn't the fault of Diversity or any other stuff. Our gangs were white kids. We need to get back to basics.!!

Dress codes are one thing but school uniforms are simply stupid. Gangs will find other visual signals and mechanisms to communicate the same meanings: ask any social scientist who has studied gangs in prisons, in military settings, anywhere that uniforms are worn.

Better schools will come about with better teachers and better lesson plans. When I was in high school not too long ago we saw vidoes even in honors classes: the teacher should have been lecturing rather than showing a movie. Use every minute with wisdom, throw the bad kids out of school, and enforce the rules. And let the rest of us wear the clothing we want to wear instead of some hair-brained and outdated school uniforms that make kids look like a bunch of service industry clones.

This is a stupid move. This will solve nothing!!!! If you think for one second that a uniform will make a kid learn better stop having clicks you are a total moron. Gangs find a way to have their colors on from rags to something in the hair to around the neck.

Achtung!

I wish they did that when I was in school. Imagine the money my parents would have saved on clothes marketed to kids at ridiculous price points.

This is a great move, and I hope it helps impoverished families from buying all that thug clothing for their little ones.

Here we go again with teachers that are going to save us all. They always have a answer to the problem that turns the head away from them. next is hair cuts then they start on the home again. All to cover up for them.
Because a person changes the way they look has nothing to do with how they act around the same people, all you have done now is make everyone look the same and try to find the bad egg in a dozen is harder when they all look the same. Keep UP THE GOOD WORK AND SAVE US ALL!!!!!!

It's a great idea. It's safer for the students and staff. Walmart does have good prices on school uniforms.

Just different colors of polo for each school and maybe different colors for High School students.

During my time, I even have to wear a nect tie or ribbon for the girls.

Think about it parents, high school kids could cost you a bundle... specially those designer clothes. With uniforms you maybe able to put away $'s for their college.

Your there to learn not make a fashion statement so get over it and deal with it.

Our children are in school to learn -its not a fashion show for them. Our children already have witnessed the need of uniformity. They see it everywhere they go. From stores to fast food, restaurants, mall stores, to police, fire and rescue personnel - its everywhere. There are numerous dress codes from one extreme to another.

Many of these parents are there own worst enemy. Many of them are required to wear some form of a uniform or wear certain types of clothin to work. The choices then are simple - you either wear the work attire/uniform or you don't work.

The articles about foreign students or private schools is funny - they too are required to wear uniforms. Sounds like many folks have never left the motherland to understand what its like abroad.

Just a matter of time before all school districts adopt this policy. Congrats to Osceola School District for making the hard decision but the right one. May the trend continue and quickly.

For those that can not accept the uniform rules, its time to pack your bags and move your family to another state that will meet your expectations.

Oh, BTW, don't a lot of the private schools ALSO enforce a strict dress code, including uniforms?!!!

Also, I meant you "should stop by AND TELL every minority how you feel about them".

NW Florida Parent wrote:

Our children are in school to learn -its not a fashion show for them. Our children already have witnessed the need of uniformity. They see it everywhere they go. From stores to fast food, restaurants, mall stores, to police, fire and rescue personnel - its everywhere. There are numerous dress codes from one extreme to another.
Many of these parents are there own worst enemy. Many of them are required to wear some form of a uniform or wear certain types of clothin to work. The choices then are simple - you either wear the work attire/uniform or you don't work.
The articles about foreign students or private schools is funny - they too are required to wear uniforms. Sounds like many folks have never left the motherland to understand what its like abroad.
Just a matter of time before all school districts adopt this policy. Congrats to Osceola School District for making the hard decision but the right one. May the trend continue and quickly.
For those that can not accept the uniform rules, its time to pack your bags and move your family to another state that will meet your expectations.

There is a marked difference between having to wear, say, a business suit to work and a dedicated uniform. Most jobs which require true uniforms, excepting police, EMS, and military, are lower-income service industry positions anyways.

School is a time of forming greater goals and finding one's identity and I cannot see school uniforms for a non-military, public, institution to be wise at all. As a high school and college student I have enjoyed being able to wear clothing I have believed to be appropriate to being a student and it's nice to have at least one period in life (for those who will supposedly wear uniforms later at work) where you don't have to wear a uniform. Think of the kid who has to wear school uniforms to school, then a team uniform for soccer, then a work uniform at Wendy's after school. This is telling him that in his life, someone else has more to say about how he is dressed than he does himself. In a culture where we spend millions on fashion, home furnishings, and our cars, homes, and yards to look a certain way its myopic to tell kids that we desire for them to have lofty goals of bettering themselves while also making them conform to trite, preppy, uniforms as if they lived in North Korea.

It's very odd. You keep saying "The School Board" this and "The School Board" that, like there is this large sentient creature rampaging around an auditorium somewhere out there, voting strange votes for some unknowable reason...

No. "The School Board" tried this same thing back in 1999, and instituted these measures in 2000 but had to back down in the face of some alluded-to resistance. Some PERSON, or GROUP of PEOPLE, with specific names and some particular agenda, became part of the situation at that time and are STILL THERE, stirring up events in pursuit of that same agenda all over again.

Don't try and layer that load of crunchy peanut butter on top of us -- your job as denizens of the investigatively reportorial jungle is to dig out those specific nuts which are contributing the most to the supposedly news-worthy "crunch" here.

All we know for the moment is that some one or more people are hiding behind your "gloss it over" disclosures -- therefore YOU, for the moment, are part of a "problem" of insufficient information.

Come on, people, get it together, then let us know about it!

I wore a school uniform when I went to school; it was a state school with children from some mighty poor families attending.

It gives the pupil a sense of pride when they are out amongst their peers, no matter their race or creed; however, after reading the article about the debacle at Wet 'n' Wild I fear the new uniform will take the form of SWAT gear.

How about all of the kids at PATHS who have already invested in "school uniform" oxford shirts of various colors? It's really not fair to make them change when they already had to wear school uniforms before everyone else did!

I wore uniforms to school and it had the school crest and color. I liked it because I didn't have to decide what to wear everyday. Everyone looked nice and was neat and tucked in.
Those who make the most noise now about this issue probably were the trouble makers in school, like the ones I experience when later I moved and had to go to a non-uniformed school.
Grow up and stop your bellyaching. Your kids will react the same way you are. So, what, they have to wear uniforms, it's not the end of the world... If you don't like it, move and let your kids attend school in a different part of Florida.
At my son's high school I've seen too many girls that wear their clothes too tight and midriffs showing (yes, there are clothing rules, but they ignore them) and the guys with their oversized baggy rear-end showing pants and oversized t-shirts. Time to stop this madness!

Uniforms are wonderful. I wore them, and my children attend a private school that requires them. There are many choices, the kids all manage to do things that show their individuality. I think I spent $300 per child at the beginning of the school year on uniforms. I have not had to buy anything for school since and there is what 6 weeks to go?
Uniforms are always cheaper in the long run, they look better, and the kids get more sleep as they don't have to figure out what to wear. Having seen what high school students wear these days you can't go anywhere but up.

I am very dissappointed. The education department is having to cutback because of funding and the school board voted that all students wear uniforms and help families pay for them. Why don't they use this money for something that would benefit the students? It is apparent the board does not care about the students or what the majority of the parents and children want. They say they surveyed the parents, I haven't talked to one parent that got the survey.