So this is something that's been slightly bugging me every now and then.
Sometime last month I saw a post on facebook about who knows what, but the comments were interesting. Many people were arguing about uniform and kids expressing themselves and how it's the parents who should teach their kids not to judge others--I think--and how uniform helps students learn and so on.
Firstly, I'd like to point out how one comment said "why should kids express themselves in school?" Well, if anything, it's important they get to be themselves in a place they spend a large portion of their life in. As much as uniform makes certain things easier, self expression is important for a growing person throughout their life, it's not something you wait for or wait to earn. People need to be able to be themselves and express themselves, it's a freedom people need. It is important to their growth as a person.
Secondly, yes, parents should teach their children not to judge others, not to bully, etcetera, but consider the fact that school is suppose to educate them. The word educate means: give intellectual, moral, and social instruction to (someone, especially a child) typically at a school or university. Which means as much as parents need to teach their children morals, if the schools say they are educating these children, this means that they, too, must teach the students morals, or else they are not doing what they say they do, only about thirty three to sixty six percent of what they are suppose to.
Thirdly, the last comment on how uniform helps education. "What do clothes have to do with learning two plus two equals four?" was and is my immediate response, but then continue to think about it. I've attended schools where uniform was required and where uniform was not required. This did not affect my education but clothing may affect how a child is treated socially, and this does affect the child's ability to learn unless the child is treated so badly socially that it interferes with their learning. To be clear, I am saying uniform does not always affect a students education, only that it can, just not necessarily, it is simply a possibility.
Mind you I am doing my best to look at this from the facts and not solely opinions because opinions aren't always accurate so I hope I succeeded. So yeah, that's what was bugging me.
