Dominique Swain Page 1
Professor Negrin
Expository writing
17 October 2014
Should uniforms be required? Wearing uniform is a great idea for elementary school kids for public and private schools. Some parents want their children to wear uniform. Some children focus on what everybody else is wearing .Some kids can't afford the most expensive clothes, so uniforms are best for them.
Wearing uniforms remove distractions of the distractions of the fashion competive from school hours. It encourages students to evaluate people by their behavior and personality rather than by their manner of the dress code. It helps kids realize school is more important than their outfits. It also helps prevent gangs from the forming on campus, encourage discipline. Also help students resist peer pressure to buy trendy clothes. Through their fashion they try to be seen as equals to other students.
For about $60 you can buy one pair of popular jeans or a complete uniform.
Also for that you would spend on a pair of trendy sneakers (100-$120), you could buy who uniforms, enough for the whole school year. According to some parents they have a small fortune because they don't have to spend on a new wardrobe ever year. Less money spent more money for important things. Students are ridiculed because they can't afford "in style clothing." School uniforms are also cost-effective. All students can afford school uniforms. Students who do not wear uniforms has
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to wear different clothes at least twice a week. This can be a very expensive way of dressing for school. On the other hand, students who wear school uniforms have to purchase uniforms only once in a year. They can wear this uniform every day of the year.
Uniforms are also faster a sense of equality between students. Choice of...