"Ray_Trace;c-17709728" wrote:
To me, school uniforms are a way to suppress identity and expression and I don't like them. Keep that stuff to, say, specific careers such as military where they actually make sense there.
Here, in school, I wore a uniform only for marching band and PE, but it makes sense for both occasions.
Yeah, this is the other thing.
The suppression of bullying I am very skeptical about, because trust me, bullies will always exist, and they will find the tiniest detail to bully you about. I mean as long as they know what neighborhood or street you live on, they can figure out if you're poor or not, to begin with. But that is usually not the cause for bullying anyway, adults thinks it is, but it's not.
I was bullied to the point of daily beatings between grade 2 and grade 9, and it had nothing to do with my economical status or clothes AT ALL.
But yes, to me, school uniforms and dress codes are basically just ways to repress personalities and to teach kids to conform and don't express themselves (Except in accepted forms, like in music and art class of course...)
