Against School Uniforms

What is high school really all about? Well I think high school is really a time when teens start to identify themselves from one another, and start to learn more about whom they really are and who they want to be. That’s when we start to begin to develop our own personal style, trying to fit in and stand out of the crowd. I think students should not be forced to wear uniforms to school. Standard uniforms are unproven to be known to student violence; they just use it to cover up the real problems that have to be faced by teens; and they violate our rights of expressing ourselves, and our ability to look within ourselves and find out who we really are.

Every individual student looks different and is different from everyone else, and we all know it but we just want to say so. We tend to do this all throughout the high schools in America and everywhere else in the world. Students’ bodies are always changing and developing and we often try to wear clothing which is good for us and comfortable. It would be embarrassing to wear the same thing as everyone else and look actually looking bad in it. The shape and design may not go with a certain person and may not be the right thing for a student to wear so why put us through all that? Uniforms also prevent students from expressing creativity and using their own minds in making decisions on how to dress. I think being able to dress ourselves is a big way for us to mature and learn to grow up. All students are trying to find their identity and discover who they will become and want to be. If they cannot show who they are or find who they want to be, then a part of them will not be the same.

So what is left to do? No one will ever be really happy with any decision that you make for us that is not the right one. I think from these facts that I have said, you should understand that you should rethink about having to make us wear these awful uniforms that no students really wants to wear. The most satisfying thing between uniforms and free dress would be dress codes, which would have some tensions, but would allow us to maintain our clothing as being very creative and being able to be ourselves.

We as students seem to do a lot better with being able to dress our self then you dressing us. Did you like it when you were a student and you had to wear uniforms? I bet you didn’t because what student wants to sit in class for about eight hours a day uncomfortable? I know you didn’t because most students think alike when it comes to something like that. If you didn’t like it as a student then why are you trying to make us wear them? What did we do wrong to get you to make such a bad decision? We do what were told; we do our work, so if we’re will to compromise with you then why aren’t you willing to compromise with us? They are not the most comfortable things to wear; you wore them before you know how they feel.We as kids and teens like to express ourselves by the clothes we wear, and we can’t do that if you’re in the way trying to stop us.

If you as an adult were to just set ground rules to were you set up a dress code maybe that would be a lot better than trying to get us to wear uncomfortable uniforms. Many schools across the country enforce dress codes for the students and that seems like it goes good for them. I don’t understand the real reason why they want all of us to wear uniforms when were old enough to dress ourselves and not have to wear the same thing over and over again every day.