School Uniforms
Essay #2
High school is a hard time for students everywhere. Teens have concerns over friends, boyfriends, grades, and most of all fitting in. Some believe that forcing students in public schools to wear school uniforms would create better academic outcomes, better behavioral outcomes, and a sense of belonging to their peer around them. However, wearing school uniforms have many important cons. It inhibits creativity and individuality, stifles self-expression, not to mention they are expensive for many families. An important part of growing up is learning to think for yourself and make your own decisions. Enforcing school uniforms make such learning harder for students in high school society. The wearing of school uniforms greatly inhibits creativity and individuality. School is a place where students are trained and learn to become the next actors, artists, politicians, inventors, or designers. Enforcing school uniforms sends a message to students that conformity is important rather than creativity. Students learn that their opinions and individuality is unimportant and that authority is allowed to constrain personal rights of self expression. High school is where students are prepared for the real world. In the real world, every person doesn’t wear the same uniform and students should be able to decide what clothes to put on and in what image to present themselves. No society wants to create students who all look alike and think alike. High schools want to produce students who are encouraged to be themselves and express their individuality not only through the way they dress, but also in the ideas students come up with the make the world a better place. Uniforms also take away the freedom of choice and teach students to conform and teach bad values to children such as they need to look like they belong to fit in. They will only talk to and socialize with those who look like them as adults. This is not an admirable quality in society. Enforcing school
High school is a hard time for students everywhere. Teens have concerns over friends, boyfriends, grades, and most of all fitting in. Some believe that forcing students in public schools to wear school uniforms would create better academic outcomes, better behavioral outcomes, and a sense of belonging to their peer around them. However, wearing school uniforms have many important cons. It inhibits creativity and individuality, stifles self-expression, not to mention they are expensive for many families. An important part of growing up is learning to think for yourself and make your own decisions. Enforcing school uniforms make such learning harder for students in high school society. The wearing of school uniforms greatly inhibits creativity and individuality. School is a place where students are trained and learn to become the next actors, artists, politicians, inventors, or designers. Enforcing school uniforms sends a message to students that conformity is important rather than creativity. Students learn that their opinions and individuality is unimportant and that authority is allowed to constrain personal rights of self expression. High school is where students are prepared for the real world. In the real world, every person doesn’t wear the same uniform and students should be able to decide what clothes to put on and in what image to present themselves. No society wants to create students who all look alike and think alike. High schools want to produce students who are encouraged to be themselves and express their individuality not only through the way they dress, but also in the ideas students come up with the make the world a better place. Uniforms also take away the freedom of choice and teach students to conform and teach bad values to children such as they need to look like they belong to fit in. They will only talk to and socialize with those who look like them as adults. This is not an admirable quality in society. Enforcing school