School Uniform Dystopian Society

Many schools have opted out of allowing children and adolescents to free willingly choose what to wear to school, and instead have strictly enforced a school uniform policy with hopes of diverting student focus to mainly their schooling. Those who believe it has a positive effect claim that with all students looking equal they have nothing, and no one, to compete with or feel inferior to. Children, and adolescents especially, will always want to feel like their own individual. Taking away their right to express who they are with something as minuscule a graphic t-shirt leaves the door for other means of self-expression wide open, often leading to terrible choices that could possibly hinder them later in life. Many students will turn toward negative forms of self-expression since they cannot do so with their clothing; Ironically, bullying can become a common practice with those wanting to express themselves. We as individuals do not want to be equal to everyone we pass by, which is not
If someone in our society enforces a strict school uniform are they really any better than the leaders of the dystopian society we read about in novels? Is the president of the school district any different than the president in Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut? Both believe they are creating an equal environment that will have a positive impact. The fact is though that none of these dystopian societies last very long and if they do, they are not very efficient. In novels such as The Giver, Fahrenheit 451 and The Hunger Games we can see examples of these dystopian societies failing in the end. That being said, individuals do not want to be a clone in a perfect society; they want to learn, experience and grow as a person should. Enforcing a school uniform does not prove to be effective, and only adds more problems to the prior issue while stripping individuals of their human