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The uniform
by Marylin (Dec 30, 2004)
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Small definition: it is a costume which is the same for a whole category of people and which is defined by a payment. In this article, I will treat the case of the uniform in schools. In France, put aside one or two high schools, nobody wears a uniform. It is thought that wearing a uniform is to lose your personality, not to be able to affirm yourself, because, apart from the way we dress, we, young people, don’t have many means of highlighting ourselves and of showing who we are. Certain people would say that uniforms are ugly and that the pupils all look alike. Therefore how can we be noticed ? how can we make people realise that we exist if we are all identical? Doesn’t it make us look like school robots? On the contrary, in certain countries like the United Kingdom, the majority of pupils wear uniforms, they all walk in the street with the blazon of their school on their chests. According to certain people there are some reasons to wear school uniforms: - A safe and disciplined learning environment will provide the best chance for a student to learn;- Students with a sense of school pride tend to perform at much higher levels; - Uniforms have been proven to significantly reduce the levels of violence at schools; - Uniforms can be an excellent source of fundraising for schools; - Uniforms clearly reduce peer pressure - especially as there is no decision-making necessary in regards to the "What do I wear to school?" syndrome (making life for the parents much easier as well); |
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Uniforms help administrators identify possible intruders to the
school; The uniform makes it possible for the schools not to see racket within their institution because it is true that it is no use stealing clothes that you wear already all year! But that is the problem : they wear it all the time, from September to June. I find it rather sad! Last year I could speak about it with my English correspondent, and precisely, she said to me that she would prefer not to wear a uniform, but since she was very small she wore only that. She envied the French! It is true that it must irritate them to always wear a tie, a splendid shirt with squares, with a pretty collar, to wear the same skirt or trousers all the time. Some say that it is like imprisonment. But if we think about it, the advantage of the uniform is that there are no more social differences. You don’t differentiate the "poor one" and the "rich one" any more, and that it is good! Moreover you don’t need to wonder how to get dressed in the morning, because your "charming" uniform is lying on a chair and awaits for you! Moreover that does not make you spend a lot. You buy two of them for the whole year! As a conclusion, the uniform is a means to limit certain discriminations, which is good for the life in schools. But the problem which remains to be solved is : isn’t wearing the same thing all year tiring and painful? The question is: "What should we think of wearing a uniform at school?" |
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If you wish to react to this article, write to the editor. Feb 28, 2005 I think that wearing a uniform is a good way to fight against
discrimination at school. In fact, when certain pupils don't belong to
the same social class as everybody they can't have the same kind of
clothes as " rich people", so they feel rejected! So the
uniform allows to reduce the gap between different social classes! Géraldine (YGTP) Feb 28, 2005 I suppose that uniforms prevent drawing your own personality. In fact, a lot of teenagers show their way of thinking through clothes. Moreover in a large number of cases, the uniform is quite old-fashioned and you have got the impression of being "a herd of sheep". Anne-Laure (YGTP) Feb 28, 2005 We think that the uniform isn't such a good idea... because, as pupils come back from school, they can dress as they want to. And it's often really eccentric. For example, girls wear really really little skirts! (and these very short skirts were shocking for us!). Aude and Flore (YGTP) April 29, 2006
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