School Uniforms Essay

Public School Uniforms; Useless Solution to Ever Constant Problems Uniforms. They’re everywhere! Compulsory for most working Americans, they follow us throughout our whole life. Whether you’re a solider, doctor, waiter, or car salesman, uniforms are apart of your job. Now some people are trying to creep these uniforms into our public school system. Do we really need them? Will they make us more capable, more strict and studious? I don’t think uniforms are at all necessary. Students should be given the liberty to wear their choice of clothing to school because it interferes with their self-expression, uniforms are harmful to the transition to adulthood, and they only act as a 'band-aid' towards bullying, gang activities, and cliques. School uniforms in public schools conflict with a student's freedom of speech as well as their freedom of self-expression. People have been known to express their identities as well as how they are feeling through what they wear. With school uniforms it might encourage students to develop their own identities in different but harmful ways like smoking, drugs etc anything to set them apart from their peers. School uniforms demonstrate interference with ones self-expression and sense of creativity. Just by wearing them it discourages students, by not allowing their true personality to shine through. Creating a school community based on being the same as others will create more followers than leaders. Requiring uniforms damages children later on in life. Many researchers believe that children that are required to wear uniforms are indeed affected when they make the transition into adulthood. Young children are under the assumption that out there in the world everyone dresses the same and fit in you have to be like everyone else. In reality they will have trouble adjusting to the "real world" because they were taught that everyone is the same. Controlling the socialization process could damage the student in