"Dress Codes in Schools," includes arguments supporting school dress codes. Essay could use a bit more directly sited evidence, such as specific statistics or percentages of some sort.

When the author mentioned "less distracing" it made me think of an article I read defending single-sex schools. The argument was that such schools would offer less distractions and since both sexes have different ways of learning would actually increase their level of learning by specialising on them. The British government is seriously considering to increase the nr of such schools for the above reasons. Me being a guy don't mind low-cut dresses, it is a girls choice to wear them after all. And couldn't the school just provide lab-coats to prevent accidents, something they would have to do anyway even if the student was in uniform?

i live in england where the universal policy we have is uniforms until we leave secondary school (at 16,im not sure of the american equvilant) This is good for another few reasons. First, it means that the pupils economic status is not exposed, all uniform is pretty affordable, so low income pupils do not get teased for not having the latest fashions. Also, it lulls them into a false sense of rebellion; in england, turning up with a colour of nail varnish not permitted will raise a murmmer of respect and aproval from your classmates, whislt making you feel cool.This ,of course is exactly what teenagers thrive off. With no uniforms, you would have to turn up naked, or with a face full of peircings to get the same effect. Just a thought!

Yes, i agree with you. school ,we must know is an education place definitely not a public place. So there is no neccessity for students to dress as elegantly as possible. You attend school to learn and gain knowledge to help improve the country's economy not merely to get attention from people. I hope students will understand the importance of drees code and not neglecting it.

This essay was ok. You should have made it longer and gone into more detail with references and examples from schools who do have uniforms and schools who do not.


In Scotland the schools are supposed to have uniforms but nobody wears them. When I was at school it was a battle for the teachers to even get a quarter of the school wearing the tie. This is because they could not enforce a specific school uniform because the school couldn't afford to give it out for free (and couldn't make pupils buy it because many pupils couldn't afford it) so the school uniform was basically just black because nobody wore shirts and ties. There will always be 'cool' kids in schools anyway, and making schoolkids wear a uniform is not going to mask who the geeks are and who the cool kids are. It makes very little difference as far as I can see.


There was a survey done in Scotland recently, studying whether people worked better in uniform or in their own clothes (this was a survey of office workers) and it was actually found that people worked better without uniforms. I work in a job at the moment where I have no uniform and I must say it is very liberating (since every other job I have had I have had a uniform) and it makes me more relaxed and comfortable in the workplace. As I work on commission, it is important to feel myself and I think wearing my own clothes helps. Screw Uniforms!