Pros and cons of School Uniforms
Pros:
Pros:
- Students experience less pressure in deciding what to wear each morning.
- Uniforms cost less overall.
- Student attendance improves.
- Encourages discipline.
- Students takes less time to get ready in the morning.
- Children are free to concentrate on lessons.
- Uniformity promotes a reduction of violence in schools.
- A decrease in peer pressure to wear trendier brands.
- Uniforms can be reused and recycled.
- School intruders are more easily identified in a school of uniformed children.
- Uniforms detract from a child's individuality.
- Students will always find ways to express themselves, leading to less desirable forms of expression such as tattooing and piercing.
- Schools should be a place where diversity is celebrated.
- The cost of uniforms is prohibitive, especially when a family includes more than one school-aged child.
- An unfair additional cost to tax-payers sending their children to a public school.
- A financial burden to lower income families.
- A child in a uniform may be the target of bullies from a different school.
- Uniforms may lessen the child's comfort level while attending school.
- Enforcing rules about uniforms is difficult.