Do you think schools should have uniforms?

Rich S wrote:

Yeah. I think it might be nice to try. The uniforms would allow parents to tell who is going to what school. and I think the kids might be glad to have all the dress decidsions made by others.

Parent wrote:

Uniforms take away individuality and any thought that may have to go into what a child decides to wear to school everyday. This takes away their right to expression. Maybe a few parents should make their children dress more respectably so it wouldn't ruin it for the others. If you think that them all wearing the same will stop the look at my clothes that are better than yours line, you are sadly mistaken.... Then it will just be oh she has a Wal Mart or Target uniform, look at mine that came from the GAP.It's our job as parents to teach our children to deal with life and making them wear a uniform is not the answer.We need to teach them how to dress respectably and respond to problems that arrise.

plainoldbored wrote:

Dress codes are great, but it will not change the attitude of the "Better than thou" children's action of ridicule their fellow classmates. Tucked in shirts??? What if the student is self conscious about their butt or stomach not being hidden by a shirt tail? I agree with Parent...it all starts at home and can be stopped at home. I wonder if the parents of the girls who wear clothes way too tight and shirts way too short realize that it reflects on them as well? I wonder if the parents of the boys who wear pants way too low and their drawers shining with a wife beater and huge fake diamond earring realize that it relfects on them?

Swatch wrote:

<quoted text> I sent my children to private school so they wouldn't be around the exact type of people you are describing. My children were never around rif raff and still aren't. They went to private school, private college and have occupations that don't involve associations with such people. My oldest daughter is an executive with AMEX and my second daughter is an engineer for an airline manufacturer. They never really had any attiude about anyone but never had associations with anyone except people similar to themselves.