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    School uniforms have both negative and positive feedback. Some view it as promoting conformity, or taking away a student’s individuality. It is always a fear to both parents and students to have the liberties promised to them striped away just because of their age or for the sake of being educated. This is why many families took these cases to court on the behalf of the minor in their custody. Others tend to view it as a way to make things better for students. They want to enforce that equality

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    their emotions, if school uniforms are kept, the school uniforms will take away the diversity within the schools. As published in “School Uniforms,” “At a time when schools are encouraging an appreciation of diversity, enforcing standardized dress sends a contradictory message” (procon.org). School districts tend to express themselves as one to wanting diversity within the school, but the idea of school uniforms makes the schools contradict themselves. If the schools apply uniforms to the student’s

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    that school uniforms presented until my family and I vacationed in England in early spring of 2015. While traveling we met up with a woman that my mother had known in High school. The woman had moved to the UK, and since had gotten married and had three children. One of the many conversations we had was about the British school environment and how it differed from American school standards. The mother had explained that the school her children attended required a school uniform, as most schools do

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    Association (2016), an "estimated 160,000 students missed school every day due to a fear of violence and harassment from their peers." Students at many schools, including my own, have become more divided. This division has resulted in bullying especially towards students that stand out from the crowd with the way they look and dress. Along with continuing the anti-bullying programs already in place, public schools should implement a school uniform in order to reduce divisions among students, which should

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    School uniforms, are an enigma that we are, as members of a small quiet community, not very familiar with. Yet even here it has been argued that we should introduce them. I would argue that this is a horrible proposition. In this article I will argue the points that these uniforms violate our constitutional rights, hinder creative development, and could very easily be used as an instrument of oppression. I present these arguments in hopes of convincing you that school uniforms are utterly unacceptable

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    School uniforms were first implemented in the late 1990s and were used for the schooling of minorities, specifically Native American women (Dussel, 2006). In 1996, the US Department of Education reported that only three percent of public schools mandated uniforms. As a result of the belief that uniforms make schoolrooms more orderly and disciplined, President Clinton encouraged schools to adopt uniforms (Gentile et al.,2012). Shortly after, uniforms were widely adopted in urban communities to counterbalance

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    The issue of mandatory school uniforms is one that has gained a lot of traction in the recent years. As you could imagine proponents of school uniforms will say that it increases graduation rates and decreases school violence. Opponents of it will say that it restricts freedom of expression, and is way to further restrict students’ rights. In a world where we are continually being restricted on our rights the positives of mandatory uniforms does not outweigh the negatives, because restricted kids’

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    Impact of using uniform in the middle school Is that you happy about letting your child going to school with a home dress? In many countries of the world, they understand the importance of using uniform in the middle school. It’s very traditional, it has more significant in our school. Uniform brink a lot of achievement, can change our behavior. Bring more focusing in our personal life. The word itself means unit. It takes out the difference; make you feel same with other no matter what class

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    member’s discussion, we believe having a school uniforms will make school to show it identity but it’s covering up the student’s individuality. Holy Family school have students from many different ethnic background beside follow different beliefs, Faith, tradition, cultural events and many more. Consequently just for our school to recognize by discipline place we shouldn’t covering student’s rights to express themselves. Furthermore, Holy Family School is a school that is one big family, we acts like

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    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

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