Educational Debate Persuasive Paper
Educational Debate Persuasive Paper
Shirley Rene
AED/200
May 8, 2011
Jennifer Particini Educational Debate Persuasive Paper
Are uniforms a good way to improve students discipline and motivation? No, I do not believe uniforms improve a students discipline behavior or nor do it motivate them to go to school. When have you ever heard a child say I can not wait to wear my new uniform to school? I never heard a child be happy to wear a uniform to school. As a child I did not have to wear a uniform from the time I attended school, or until I graduated from high school. As a parent of three daughters I feel that discipline starts at home with the parents. If the parents teach and enforce discipline to a child at an early age, then the child will learn it. Just as teaching a child how to motivate themselves to want to go to school and do what they are suppose to do. So making a child to wear a uniform to school is not going to motivate them if they do not want to wear it. In today’s schools system uniforms is not the problem that the students are having, it actually contributes to the problem. If a school has set guidelines about the dress code for their school and they enforce them .Then there would not be a problem because the students and parents would be informed what the student can and can not wear. As a parent of three daughters my children had the option to wear their regular clothes and to wear a uniform. So did wearing a uniform make them happy? No, it did not nor did it help with motivate them to want to go to school. Did it affect how they were taught about discipline? No, it did not! Now my oldest daughter is a junior in high school, and she had to wear a uniform since she has attended school. Is she happy that she has to wear a uniform to school? No, she is not happy at all, she always expresses how much she dislikes wearing a uniform. Does it help her with discipline or motivate her to want to go to school? No, it did not, because
Shirley Rene
AED/200
May 8, 2011
Jennifer Particini Educational Debate Persuasive Paper
Are uniforms a good way to improve students discipline and motivation? No, I do not believe uniforms improve a students discipline behavior or nor do it motivate them to go to school. When have you ever heard a child say I can not wait to wear my new uniform to school? I never heard a child be happy to wear a uniform to school. As a child I did not have to wear a uniform from the time I attended school, or until I graduated from high school. As a parent of three daughters I feel that discipline starts at home with the parents. If the parents teach and enforce discipline to a child at an early age, then the child will learn it. Just as teaching a child how to motivate themselves to want to go to school and do what they are suppose to do. So making a child to wear a uniform to school is not going to motivate them if they do not want to wear it. In today’s schools system uniforms is not the problem that the students are having, it actually contributes to the problem. If a school has set guidelines about the dress code for their school and they enforce them .Then there would not be a problem because the students and parents would be informed what the student can and can not wear. As a parent of three daughters my children had the option to wear their regular clothes and to wear a uniform. So did wearing a uniform make them happy? No, it did not nor did it help with motivate them to want to go to school. Did it affect how they were taught about discipline? No, it did not! Now my oldest daughter is a junior in high school, and she had to wear a uniform since she has attended school. Is she happy that she has to wear a uniform to school? No, she is not happy at all, she always expresses how much she dislikes wearing a uniform. Does it help her with discipline or motivate her to want to go to school? No, it did not, because
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