One of the most distinctive characteristics that separate an individual from the others is the way one expresses himself. Majority of students today aver that wearing a school uniform is an invasion to their individual liberty to choose what they want to wear to school. Moreover, forcing them to wear a school uniform takes away their freedom of expression. They believe that inviting the world to enter the student’s lives is one good example of invasion privacy. On the other hand, I believe that one’s freedom to express oneself is not confined to the four corners of the academe.
There are other ways on how one can express himself and this can be done outside school. Moreover, I firmly recommend wearing a school uniform in order to decrease gang violence and discrimination against students.
...For years, there have been many cases of gang violence which starts out of difference in fashion expression. Hip-hops were against punks; gangs wearing red were against those wearing blue; those with a not-so-good fashion style were teased and called dork or dumb; those who can’t afford branded clothes were excluded from the group.
To avoid fights over colors of shirts, jackets, or caps and to uplift equality among youth even only in the school premises, the tradition of wearing school uniforms must continue. Finally, for a point of view of a student like me, once in my life as a student, there was also a time when I wanted to get away from the hassle of not being able to show my fashion in school. However, the stress of breaking down in tears with a fashion dilemma just because I can’t fin
my favorite shirt and pair of jeans is even harder to take than opening my cabinet and simply getting my pair of school uniform.
With my school uniform, I am free to reserve all my good clothes and show my fashion style for the weekend party. A decrease in gangs and cliques, an increase in the number of graduating students, and the ability to distinguish students from the rest are good reasons that affirm that school uniforms are indeed a good tradition rather than an outdated habit. These are also good reasons to implement or to require students to wear school uniforms. It is simply security at all points; security of education, security of youth, security of well-being, and most of all, security of schools and everyone and everything in it.
Students have the rights to education and these rights include not just the education itself but also the assurance that when they go to school, parents are ensured that they are indeed going to school to obtain their rights to proper and right education. Also, included in these rights is that when they leave the school premises, the teachers and school heads are ensured that they will be able to go back to their homes safe and sound. Having a simple student’s life is always a good thing.
Wearing school uniform reduces the stress of thinking what to wear the next day and helps us avoid rushing in the morning. Adding on some personal safety, security, and the fact that a student does not have to worry about whether he or she wore the right combination of colors of shirt, jeans, and shoes, or he or she
has got the good brand of clothing her classmates would admire are such an awesome thing. Therefore, I highly recommend that school uniforms be worn in schools.
