Requiring School Uniforms
School uniforms should apply to every junior high and high school. Far too often school officials and administrators are finding problems with letting students pick what they wear. Gang activity, modesty problems, and attention issues are all examples of why uniforms should be accepted and enforced in school systems all across the United States. This will not only help teachers and administrates keep students on track with their studies but it will also help students reach for and achieve the goals they so often set for themselves. Gangs associate numbers, colors, and symbols with their gang, therefore far too often innocent bystanders are caught in their violent cross fire for simply wearing the "wrong" number, symbol, or color. Schools in the U.S. alone have suffered 2,456 deaths in the 2010 alone associated with gang violence. School uniforms are the simplest yet, most affective way to fix this terrifying issue. The uniforms would send a clear message to the world that the particular young persons wearing them are, in fact, students and not "enemy" gang members. The uniforms would be sure to show school spirit and also school respect and to keep away from the colors, numbers, and symbols that would mark them as "gangster". Today's fashion industry models: plunging neck lines, see through cloth, and short skimpy skirts, thus teens are driven by popularity status to pick out and wear such articles of clothing to school, creating major distractions, sexually charged atmospheres, and uncomfortable students. Studies have shown that females that wear immodest cloths are twenty-five percent more likely to become impregnated and drop out of school; causing a major drop in the number of females to graduate from high school, and a terrifying rise in jobless Americans. School uniforms would be required to be modest and clean cut, thus eliminating such distractions, and horrifying numbers. Teens that attend a high school that enforces a school uniform are seventy-eight percent more likely to succeed in their future careers. As teenagers often prove, many want to standout to create an allusion of uniqueness, and often go to extremes to achieve such an illusion. Unnatural hair color, chains, black lipstick, shredded jeans,tatoos, peircings, and so much more are the things they use to standout. When they do, they not only succeed, but also create a class room distraction. Many claim that teenagers need their individuality and in taking away their crazy styles it would also be taking away their sense of self. This is simply not true. Teens wearing uniforms will not and do not lose a sense of self, but gain a sense of pride. They'd find themselves to be more mature and well rounded individuals, and they would realise that if they want to stand out, they can use their accomplishments and personalities to do so. School uniforms are not a barrier holding teenagers back from self expression, they, in fact, are only a training wheels guiding and balancing them on their road to self discovery. School uniforms are a guiding hand helping teenagers not only stay focused and safe, but they also help teens free themselves of the cruel labels thrust upon them, and open up new doors to self discovery and accomplishment. School uniforms should be a required learning tool on every student's road to a better education. Copyright, theamazingstaci.blogspot.com 2011 |
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