Are school uniforms good or bad?
Well, you know who else wears uniforms?
Prisoners.
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It's funny to me that I haven't covered the school uniform topic earlier on this channel.
I mean, after all, this is the perfect example of the school system forcing everyone to conform
to a single standard.
So let's play a little game of pros and cons: are school uniforms good or bad?
And I'm not going to go too far in depth on each of the pros and each of the cons.
I'm just going to kind of present the list here to you—my list—and I want you to
see what you think about it.
Like I mentioned in the introduction, uniforms put you one step closer to being a prisoner.
Now, I know, there's going to be some people in the comments that disagree with me and
say school is nothing like prison.
Well, it kind of really is.
The only big difference is that when you're in school you get to go sleep in your own
bed at night.
Otherwise, you're forced to be in school for a certain amount of time, you're under the
watchful of the prison guards, that is, the teachers, you have your warden who's the principal,
you have the vice principals who are the managers of the wardens.
And you're locked in rooms for extended periods of time being told what to do.
Add to that the uniforms?
Yeah, you're getting well-prepared to exist inside of the prison system.
I guess I said wasn't going to go too far in depth of each of these, but there you go.
Let's just go on to the next one.
All right.
My next one here is: with a uniform, you must submit to yet another layer of conformity.
Yes, I did just read that off of my little notes here.
But it should be obvious now that school seeks to destroy the individual.
And uniforms, what do they do?
They make everyone the same, there's no individuality allowed in your dress.
Adding to that, uniforms force you to give up your creative expression.
That is, if fashion is at all important to you.
I'm not saying that I want people running around school with the F-word on their shirts.
But I don't think that forcing everyone to dress in the same way is doing any good for
anyone's sense of creativity or expression.
This is a big one: uniforms reduce a student's sense of responsibility.
Do you know how big of a milestone it is for a child to learn how to pick out his or her
own clothes and to dress himself in the morning?
That's a big deal!
And really, for a lot of kids, that is the most responsibility that they will have until
they're 18 years old.
Dressing yourself is just one way point on the way to adulthood and uniform eliminates
that.
And the last con I've got is that uniforms add nothing to the educational value of school.
What does a uniform add to your education?
Nothing, they're just clothes!
What does a uniform add to the profits of the uniform companies?
A Billion Dollars a year!
The school uniform industry is a billion-dollar industry and do you know what companies push
the most for school uniforms?
The school uniform manufacturers themselves!
And for the sake of argument, let's go through some pros of school uniforms.
School uniforms make it so you don't have to think about what you're going to wear to
school.
It's a very real thing that humans have a limited amount of willpower on a daily basis.
And people that stress about what they're going to wear on any particular day use up
a lot of that willpower first thing in the morning.
So by the time you're at lunch, you're out of juice, and you are angry, irritable, and
no one wants to be around you because you are snapping every time you hear a question.
This is a big one that schools talk about: uniforms help stop bullying because, in theory,
no one should get picked on for what clothes they're wearing if everyone's wearing the
same thing.
But getting picked on for the clothes you wear is not the only way people are bullied.
This is a good pro, though: no one should get in trouble for wearing inappropriate clothing!
The rule of being fingertip length or the rule of no straps or no tank tops are gone,
are eliminated, with uniforms and no one should ever get in trouble ever again for what they're
wearing.
Unless you're wearing the uniform wrong.
This pro is for the parents: uniforms make back-to-school shopping easier.
Usually.
If you can find the right uniform pieces.
Not everyone lives in an area where school uniforms are readily available.
But if you are in an area where there are schools with uniforms, then you'll probably
have an easier time shopping during the summer.
Adding to that, school uniforms can be cheaper than buying regular clothes as long as your
uniform is something simple like khakis and a polo shirt.
But then you've got to think, you've got to buy two sets of clothes now.
You've got to buy your school uniform and you've got to buy your outside of school clothes.
So now you're doubling what you're buying which I don't know if that really makes it
cheaper.
Now this one's a good one: uniforms can prevent the display of gang colors and reduce gang
violence.
Unless, of course, you choose a red polo or a blue blazer as your school uniform.
Now I'm asking you: Are school uniforms good or bad?
Let everyone know why in the comments down below.
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