Your thoughts on required uniforms in high schools and universities?

[Formaldehyde]

Believe it or not, I attended a couple of public schools where girls were forced to wear skirts or dresses even though there were no school uniforms. And there was a minimum temperature where they could wear pants instead.

 

[Airstrike92]

Uniforms are created for the sole purpose of removing individuality. Some jobs want their employees to only care about their job and nothing else, like in communist societies. Criminals in prison are also forced to wear uniforms, to kill their individuality. Military personnel are forced to wear uniforms so they lose their own personality and individuality are forced to blindly obey orders. That's also the same reason some high schools and universities have them, to kill the individual and create a class of sub-humans.

 

[Lillefix]

Uniforms are created for the sole purpose of removing individuality. Some jobs want their employees to only care about their job and nothing else, like in communist societies. Criminals in prison are also forced to wear uniforms, to kill their individuality. Military personnel are forced to wear uniforms so they lose their own personality and individuality are forced to blindly obey orders. That's also the same reason some high schools and universities have them, to kill the individual and create a class of sub-humans.

Ah, now it all makes sense.

 

[NovaKart]

What if a student is morbidly obese and the uniforms don't fit?

 

[Airstrike92]

What if a student is morbidly obese and they uniforms don't fit?

expulsion.

 

[W|M]

Just think of how terrible it would be if American high schools and colleges/universities had uniforms that everyone had to wear and you couldn't wear anything you want ever, only the uniform that the principal is forcing people to wear against their will. I do realize that some private (especially Catholic) schools do force students to wear uniforms.

You wouldn't ever be able to wear what you want and all of your clothes would be useless save for that one little pathetic uniform. I feel sorry for people who go to private schools, and not just because they go to a private school, but because they have to wear a uniform as well. Also, don't forget that along with that uniform everyone would have to have the same exact hair cut, like in the military, and you wouldn't be allowed to dye or highlight your hair or anything that is normal for teens to do.

My Catholic school is a public one...

tbh, when I first started, I didn´t think the Catholic bit was that bad. That was one of the wrongest things I ever thought.

My school pointlessly forces you to use a thin white shirt if male, or a thin blue one if female; a school tie; a dark blue blazer, even in the summer; grey trousers if male, a grey skirt (down to the knee) if female (if above the knee, the school forces the girl to wear an ankle-length one); black, grey or dark blue socks for everyone and black, leather shoes for everyone. Also, scarfs can only be used if they are blue, red and white stripes (not even in America!), jerseys can only be used if they´re dark blue, male´s hair can´t be too long or too short, and female´s hair always has to be tied back - your also not allowed to dye, use gel, highlights e.t.c. on your hair. Girls can wear one gold or silver stud on each ear for an earing, an males can´t use earings at all. Girls also can´t have any make-up. That might be all, but I´m probably missing some stuff out...

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Uniforms are created for the sole purpose of removing individuality. Some jobs want their employees to only care about their job and nothing else, like in communist societies. Criminals in prison are also forced to wear uniforms, to kill their individuality. Military personnel are forced to wear uniforms so they lose their own personality and individuality are forced to blindly obey orders. That's also the same reason some high schools and universities have them, to kill the individual and create a class of sub-humans.

 

[Airstrike92]

My Catholic school is a public one...

tbh, when I first started, I didn´t think the Catholic bit was that bad. That was one of the wrongest things I ever thought.

My school pointlessly forces you to use a thin white shirt if male, or a thin blue one if female; a school tie; a dark blue blazer, even in the summer; grey trousers if male, a grey skirt (down to the knee) if female (if above the knee, the school forces the girl to wear an ankle-length one); black, grey or dark blue socks for everyone and black, leather shoes for everyone. Also, scarfs can only be used if they are blue, red and white stripes (not even in America!), jerseys can only be used if they´re dark blue, male´s hair can´t be too long or too short, and female´s hair always has to be tied back - your also not allowed to dye, use gel, highlights e.t.c. on your hair. Girls can wear one gold or silver stud on each ear for an earing, an males can´t use earings at all. Girls also can´t have any make-up. That might be all, but I´m probably missing some stuff out...

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That must absolutely suck man.

 

[Formaldehyde]

Ah, now it all makes sense.

I just wish they didn't make sub-humans out of the cute cheerleaders. It seems like such a waste.

 

[Lord of Elves]

Uniforms are created for the sole purpose of removing individuality. Some jobs want their employees to only care about their job and nothing else, like in communist societies. Criminals in prison are also forced to wear uniforms, to kill their individuality. Military personnel are forced to wear uniforms so they lose their own personality and individuality are forced to blindly obey orders. That's also the same reason some high schools and universities have them, to kill the individual and create a class of sub-humans.

Everything is so clear now.

(Although yes, not having uniforms would probably be preferable)

 

[Ajidica]

I oppose it for two reasons:
1. I would hate having to spend money to get extra pairs.
2. If I don't want to spend the money to get the extra pairs, there is no way I would do laundry every other day.

Its much easier when all you need is a t-shirt, shorts, and shoes and you are ready for school.

 

[W|M]

 

[Leonel]

High schools, yes. Cries of stifled creativity are invalid as anyone that needs to dress differently to express their creativity isn't very creative in the first place at all. If anything, it encourages creativity by forcing the person to find other outlets of creativity.

But universities? That might be pushing it a bit too far. Heck I don't think even Japan does that for universities!

 

[LucyDuke]

I feel sorry for people who go to private schools, and not just because they go to a private school, but because they have to wear a uniform as well. Also, don't forget that along with that uniform everyone would have to have the same exact hair cut, like in the military, and you wouldn't be allowed to dye or highlight your hair or anything that is normal for teens to do.

It would be great if you learned about things before you talked about them.

It's not like people really get picked on or made fun of in high schools anyway, atleast not in Missouri. Everyone is always nice to just about everyone, sure there are occasionally fights that break out, primarily over girls, but it's not like "give me your lunch money or I'll beat you up" which never happens.

Apparently Missouri is nothing like anywhere else. I find the James K. Polk Middle School more plausible than what you describe.

If high schools were to ever implement uniforms in the United States, it would be equivalent to being a Jew in Poland, circa 1942.

No. It wouldn't. At all.

 

[Cynovolans]

No uniform, because the skirts girls must wear were obviously designed by pedophiles.

 

[W|M]

 

[illram]

You're deluding yourself if you don't think k-12's primary role even in good ol freedom loving USA is creating model little worker drones.

Uniforms would probably be helpful in that regard actually. We could learn a thing or two from our more civilized cousins across the pond, you know.

 

[gangleri2001]

I would like to wear japanese uniforms

They're so cool.

 

[W|M]

I would much rather wear that than my normal uniform!

 

[Airstrike92]

You're deluding yourself if you don't think k-12's primary role even in good ol freedom loving USA is creating model little worker drones.

Uniforms would probably be helpful in that regard actually. We could learn a thing or two from our more civilized cousins across the pond, you know.

High school students hold the power in America. We're the target group of almost every industry: music, video games, movies, television, fashion, the Internet, and just about everything else

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

What the hell kind of university mandates uniforms?