For many, school uniforms are a must, but from what I've discovered is that by letting your child choose their outfit, may be better for the child. Having gone to both uniform and non uniform schools, I can vouch that both experiences had their ups and downs, but I definitely preferred one over the other. Therefore, I will hence explain why freedom of dress code is the best thing you can give you children.
Clothes are the safest way to express one's self. While growing, what you wore was a reflection of who you were as a person. That's how you communicate with others you're an artsy person, really in to sports, or if you're a tomboy. When we get older, we want to seem more mature, and we show this, if we can, through dressing more mature. If you're not allowed to dress in what you want that express your feeling, you look for other ways to show others that your not a kid any more.
One way teens try to break away from childhood is dressing more mature. While some problems arise with this, no one gets hurt. When a student is not expressing his or her feeling in a healthy way, they will
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Middle school and high school are the first opportunities to find ourselves, and what we wear is a form of exploring the many personalities. Like whether you like to be a positive person, so you wear more bright colored clothes.You cannot do this with uniforms. Our style says a lot about who we are as a person, and we should be allowed to explore that person. If you've ever looked back at what you wore 3 years a ago, you would see that your style has changed, and you as a person has change. We wear black to show we're morning at a funeral, and more bright colors at a birthday party. Clothes are a non vocal way to tell others about who we are. I do not believe that uniforms in any way help express one's individuality, if they blend everyone into one stereo type
As a teenager, growing up tends to be a struggle for us. Most girls would say that fitting in is a huge deal. Nine times out of ten, finding that one outfit is difficult when you have all these rules. Dress code at school has been a battle between who can get away with it the most. An unknown author once said, “Self-confidence is the best outfit, rock it and own it.” This quote hit home for me in multiple ways. For starters, teenage girls are having trouble trying to be confident and when we have so many restrictions it is hard to feel comfortable in our own skin. With all these restrictions we feel as if we can’t express ourselves. On the other hand, the guys get away with almost everything when it comes to the dress code. I feel as
In high school students use their outfits to show their individual characteristics. Many have the money to buy the stylish clothes but do not because they would rather have something they find more appealing. Not to mention trends set today are primarily focused on people with a certain body type. Thus resulting in the factor that even if the family had the money to buy the certain item many students would refuse it due to the fact that they do not feel comfortable in it. Instead of being able to individualize themselves many children get bullied because they are forced to fit in with the crowd to please them. Penrod once said “For the sake of [individual] kids, we all need to “lay off” a little” (762) showing how this is not the most important topic right
The prominent reason behind the various overdone school rules regarding dress is the loose power that administrators have been given. They have been “reserve[d] the right to determine if a clothing item or accessory is appropriate for school” (Carroll High School Student Handbook 2010-2011 18). The officials at school are using their own personal opinions to judge the students’ dress. Since styles change as time goes on, the generation in control and the
Dress code has always been a controversial topic. People are either completely against it or all for it. Both sides of the conversation have strong reasons why their should or not be a dress code. Dress code is okay to an extent but nowadays the dress code mostly targets girls and is not exactly fair.
When you take the freedom of picking your own clothes away from kids, they can’t express who they are. Kids express themselves from what they wear. If someone likes a band or a certain artist, they might wear a t-shirt with the name on it. If someone really likes dresses and fashion, that’s what they’ll wear. When telling kids what to wear, they can’t be an individual. They won’t feel different. You always want to be unique and be different than others and having a uniform on with your whole social class, you won’t get that freedom.
Assigned clothing takes away independent expression. If school uniforms are to be worn then students can not express what they like and do not like. Some students have shirts with their favorite bands on it or favorite tv shows. Unless you like being plain and boring then school uniforms are the thing for you! When students have a lack of expression they tend to stop expressing their feelings entirely. This does not happen often, but when it does students sometimes give up on expressing anything.
When you are a teenager, your only job is school. You work at school until you have a real job and that experience from high school helps you prepare for that job. The dress code trains you for your work dress code. You learn how to dress professionally and not look incompetent.
In addition, school dress code takes away students creativity and their ability to explore with clothes. High school senior, Hannah Whitley was dress coded for recreating zendaya’s outfit. Hannah then posted on her social media a picture of her outfit and Zendaya’s side by side captioning it “When you just wanna look like Zendaya, but you get a dress code violation for being too provocative” Hannah was recreating an inspired outfit to look like a celebrity, which is what many people do nowadays, they get inspired by many fashion icons, and try to recreate that look because it makes them feel good about what they’re wearing, but then they are shut down by their own school telling them that their clothes are not appropriate. Fashion gives quality to life, and allows us to be creative. It is not only teens who experience situations but children even younger as well. Pete Twiss said his eight and ten year old daughters are not allowed to wear spaghetti strap tank tops to school, but most clothes that are marketed to them have spaghetti straps. “It’s frustrating, for the fact that it is just wrong, and also because most clothes marketed to that age group of girls have
These dress codes only create problems for students. Fashion, style and kids taste in clothing is changing every day. Limiting a student's freedom of expression proves to be detrimental to students mental health and development. These changes in style should not dictate whether a student should be allowed in school wearing such attire. Detentions and suspensions are not the answer to breaches of dress codes. Allowing kids freedom of expression through clothing will make students happier and more self confident in how they act and what they do. The sooner kids find confidence in what they do, the better. It is high time for schools to revise these dress codes to be more suitable for kids of
Children and teens today are having more of a difficult time to decide what to wear to school than kids ever have just because of how strict the dress code requirements are. Studies conducted by Carrie Hallman shows “Children today are feeling
Disagree- School dress codes protect people from revealing too much skin in a professional area. Without dress code, students would be rebellious and take advantage of what is appropriate to wear. Given the sexual assaults due to revealing too much skin, gives the school the security to prevent this from happening.
All schools have dress codes, at least I’m pretty sure they do. And if some schools don’t have dress codes just know that most of them do. But our dress code most people are fine about. But right now if you could change anything, what would you change about your dress code at school. Me I wouldn’t change anything on mine so I’m going to go with what I hear most people talk about.
As I mentioned in the first paragraph children and teenagers have to express themselves by what they wear. It makes them who they by what they wear. It makes them who they are but schools these days have dress codes that’s are absolutely ridiculous. Some schools have done away with girls not allowed to wear
In a democratic society, people are free to choose what sort of dress they want, but the way we dress ourselves greatly depends on what the situation we are in. For instance, we put on evening suits when we present ourselves at a party of celebrities; on the field, we put on sports wear. Therefore, in elementary and secondary school, I suggest students should put on school uniform to give a consciousness to students that people should wear proper clothes in certain place in order to respect others. As Gilchrish said, "clothing is a way to show others that you have respect and consideration for the situation" (20).
School uniforms are starting to be enforced more and more in schools as time goes on. Uniforms might limit self expression in their clothes but it does not limit their learning which is the whole purpose of going to school after all. School uniforms in both private and public schools can be beneficial to students in regards of their social and academic skills. School uniforms can help prevent bullying and will make it easier on some students and parents as well. This debate whether school uniforms should be enforced or not has been a debate that has been going on for years and having uniforms has more of a positive impact than a negative