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It's pretty much well known that kids, pre-teens and teenagers go through a phase that, during which, causes them to feel inadequate towards the rest of the world. I personally think it comes from the sudden fear that proper understanding of 'fading away' brings at those ages, but whatever the case, kids will try to look unique in any way, shape, or form they can. I believe that when schools incorporate the 'uniform' idea onto students, it scares/threatens their sense of uniqueness; being forced to wear the same outfit as everyone else is supposed to reduce 'in-school envy and difference', making it a safer learning environment, as well as a more focused one. The downside to this is that, like I stated above, uniforms threaten student's sense of uniqueness... which then causes confrontations in school indirectly. Some might go as far as to say that you can never make every student dress the same, because there will always be something, some tiny little loophole that students will find which they'll manipulate to try to make themselves unique, or different.

Ultimately, environment plays a part in how students feel about uniforms as well. Kids raised into a violent environment will habitually get into confrontations regardless; single children normally aren't raised into competitive environments, so they normally won't get into confrontations, uniform or not. So what it all boils down to is this, in a sense; I think that the Uniform idea is... just an attempt at controlling an unpredictable factor about students, and thus it is usually ineffective.

I know that this is a boring teacher-ish point, but I truely belive that kids should wear uniforms. Having gone to a school where I wasn't required to wear uniform for years, the releif of moving to a school with uniform was un-imaginable. Having to pick out an outfit everyday was more stress on a morning (I'm very lazy) but more importently, it was expencive; Jeans don't last nearly as long when you wear them 3 times a week every week, you need different tops and you can't wear things 2 days in a row cause then you look dirty, which is 5 different tops, and maybe 2 or 3 pairs of jenas will just about get you by un-noticed.
The other issue with non-uniform is the fact that people express themselves in the clothes, and this very very often makes certain people a target to others. When I was at school I was very into goth culture and although no-one in my year was, I refused to conform like the little alternative hero I was (hah!). This made me a definate target, not only to students jeers, but the schools perception of what I was/wasn't allowed to wear. It seems silly now, but I felt very sad that the school completely condemmed my dress sence. banning me from wearing fishnet gloves, gherish colours, and was even once told to "not wear so much black".
A uniformed school meant if i wanted I could become totally background, no-one would bat an eyelid at me and I could keep myself to myself if needs be, and I loved it.

I really don't care anymore because I have 9 days left of school but I never really cared because the same crap will still happen either way

i think that using uniforms is soo boring*i use it*but there are two points:
the good one: you don't have to worry about what are you going to wear tomorrow and so on
the bad one:you'll look like everyone and you kida loose your style.
all in all, I like my uniform but I'd love to wear what i want

i dont think ppl shold have to have a dress code at school because that's just wasting the families money but the schools say it's "for your safety" but it doesnt help keep anyone safe cause any random dude can get clothes just like the school dress code and sew a name onto it and walk right into the school and no one would know the difference. but it doesnt really matter for me cause i go to a school were we dont have a dress code, we can use cell phones/laptops whenever we want, and we have an hour lunch with 10 minute passing periods between each class

My Opinion: Uniform at school? ii really hate the idea of us high schoolers wearing uniforms but guess what? .. it's actually isnt that bad. I mean, you dont want to go to your wardrobe deciding on what to wear for tomorrow, then the day after tomorrow, and the day after that .. and so on.. A girl like me, hate it, going to my wardrobe looking for an outfit to wear and to make sure i dont wear the same clothes . sweatdrop that would be an embarrassment. Plus, you dont wanna bug your parents to buy you new clothes cause you dont wanna wear the same ones. Such a waste.

Anyway, ii think wearing school uniforms are much better than not wearing school uniforms cause wearing uniforms you can wear the same outfit everyday but no one laughs at you for wearing the same thing again and again since everyone's wearing it.