Argumentative Essay

To Wear or Not to Wear School Uniform?

Let us change students’ life at school by making school uniforms compulsory. Uniforms improve discipline, self-esteem and self-respect. Instead buying leisure clothes for your children every month it would be better to buy a school uniform once a year. School uniforms make differences between students from different school and it causes a sort of heed and pride. Therefore, school uniforms help solve many problems. The first recorded use of standardized dress in education may have been in England in 1222, when the Archbishop of Canterbury mandated that students wear a robe-like outfit called the "cappa clausa." 

School Uniforms improve students’ attendance and they are free to concentrate on their lessons. They don’t need to spend time on gossips about someone’s clothes and they concentrate on studying. They get use with the idea that they have the same rights and become careless about look of others. On the other hand, uniforms can decrease the child’s comfort level and attentiveness while attending lessons. This problem can be solved by explaining to him that wearing such a uniform is an honour and privilege.

Uniforms will also lower the bullying and the violence in school. They will lower economical, racial or social discrimination. Rich students would not share their new and expensive cloths and they would not make fun of students who are dressed simpler and more modest than they would. No one will be judged because of what they are wearing, because they dress too simple or too nerdy. Nevertheless, another problem can arise. A child wearing uniform can be the target for bullying of students from different schools. However, more violence will be if a child wears the same clothes every year while other children have new clothes once a month.

Students need less time to prepare and get ready for school in the morning and they reduce the pressure of deciding what dress to wear. School is not a fashion show where their appearance is the most important. With school uniforms, students will save their time in the morning. They will not spend a lot of time in front of the wardrobe choosing their best outfit and they will not spend their time in front of the mirror making the best make-up. However, there is another problem that these uniforms would restrict self-expression. Instead, students are free to wear what they want on weekends and vacations when they can share their style to everyone.

According to figures released in 2014 by the National Centre for Education Statistics, the total number of public schools nationwide requiring students to wear school uniforms increased from 13% during the 2003-2004 school year to 19% during the 2011-2012 school year. It is a proof that pro-arguments are strong. Students should be simple, more careless about trends and fashion at their schools because these will not help them to learn harder or pass the exams. School is the place for studying, for improving the discipline, for education and progress.