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This website talks about the different opinions of whether or not kids should wear school uniforms. This article says that school uniforms may help prevent violence and make a better learning environment. The article also gives other possible benefits of wearing school uniforms. 

I personally have never been a fan of school uniforms for my own children but I can understand how they are warranted in some districts. Some parents may not be able to affront the things other students have making them feel inferior; this allows for everyone to maintain the same sense of self without being picked on.

I can see both sides to this issue but honestly I think that children should be able to pick what they want to wear appropriate of course but to be able to have that voice through clothing when they might not have a voice in general can do a lot of a child I think.

The use of school uniforms is said to dissipate gang violence and cut out segregation, but this article explains how that may not be happening. The article suggest that uniforms distract the government from getting to the root of the problem and strips the children of individuality.

The school uniform debate is one of personal freedom. Can schools prevent our children's personal express by requiring uniforms or does uniforms help prevent some issues like improper dress, foul language and graphics and keep the focus on education not who is wearing what.

One constitutional controversy raging in public schools today concerns mandatory school uniforms and dress codes. Proponents contend such measures instill discipline and prevent gang-related violence. They say uniforms and some dress codes lessen peer pressure aggravated by socioeconomic divisions, promote a unity of spirit and help administrators more quickly identify trespassers on school grounds.

The experiment that is being conducted in this study is to essentially test the correlation of whether their is a positive outcome in achievements when school uniforms are placed into action. The outcome of the study actually concluded that there is a positive correlation between school uniforms and achievements.

Within this article, it explains how school uniforms violate the first amendment. The article also includes implications as to why uniforms are initially set in place.

This particular website gives a lot of information about why school uniforms have been used. It also uses facts of what people argue in why they support or not support the uniforms in school.

In 1965 Students where suspended from school for wearing black armbands to protest the Vietnam war. After a 4 year battle the Supreme Court decision Tinker v. Des Moines ruled that students do not shed their constitutional rights at the school gate. Thirty years later (article published 1999) we are still fighting for our students rights with uniforms at school.

This article is very interesting as it brings up many predicaments that occurred in Japan. This predicaments have sprang up from the use of school uniforms and the article explains how and why it happened.

A batch of several hundred eggs, precisely arranged in uniform rows, moves along a conveyor belt, coming to a halt beneath a machine linked to a jumble of tubes. Once in position, the machine robotically lowers itself and then simultaneously punctures each egg with a rack of hypodermic needles.

Public schools need to draw the line when it comes to fashion and dress code. Some parents cannot afford to buy their kids the most fashionable clothes. Parents should also be cautious when they are buying clothes for their children and remind their children what is appropriate to wear to school. Uniforms should be considered to enforce a dress code policy.