School Uniform Policies

[alphabetagamma]

Wow michael archer... just wow, I had to make an account just to answer to that.

 

Private companies are NOT the source of the best stuff. I'm sorry but low-quality junk comes from everywhere: the fact is that competition has good points and bad points and it is definitively not perfect (I'm looking intensively at the concept of making stuff un-repearable so you instead have to buy new products instead. This leads to less resistant products being created as well as a plethora of enviromental problems). Capitalism also fails on several points, especially pure capitalism

This is gonna be good until the mods get here. Unless they already are..

[Doom Shepherd]

Meh. I don't think I'd have received any better education from a corporation which was at least as concerned with its quarterly profits as it was with my educational well-being.

 

By the same logic, computers made for profit wouldn't be as good as computers made by the government through taxation.

 

You go to Radio Shack, I'll go to NASA. Who's got the better computers?

 

Your logic, many faults it has.

[Doom Shepherd]

Basically, the reason why public education is immoral is that it forces people at the point of a gun to pay for another person's child even if they don't agree with it. It's the government declaring, "you don't have a right to the money you've made"; it's initiating force. And worse, it's all done in the name of "need". Somehow, a child's need is a claim on the life and effort of someone else according to their logic. That's why the only moral alternative to education is schools run for profit--where all transactions are through voluntary consent and not through the use of force.

 

Clearly, Michael relies solely on infrastructure he built by hand. Must take forever to build those freeway overpasses...

[Alyxx Thorne]

Try and keep the insults to a minimum.

[Average Internet Guy]

I have no problem with public education, but if there's a school with a disciplinary problem where some students interrupt the other students' education, uniforms/dress code policies can be a helpful tool to prevent such things from occurring.

[Kirkreng]

uniforms/dress code policies can be a helpful tool to prevent such things from occurring.

How does wearing a uniform stop disruptive behavior?

[Average Internet Guy]

Student attendance and improvements in academic performance improved after the adoption of uniforms in Kenya.

Also, crimes were reduced after the adoption of uniform policies in one CA school district (see http://www.educationbug.org/a/public-school-uniform-statistics.html).

 

A case study of the effects of adopting school uniforms in Long Beach, CA which appeared in Psychology Today in September, 1999, reported the following effects from the switch to uniforms in 1995:

 

Overall, the crime rate dropped by 91%

School suspensions dropped by 90%

Sex offenses were reduced by 96%

Incidents of vandalism went down 69%

[ProHypster]

Overall, the crime rate dropped by 91%

School suspensions dropped by 90%

Sex offenses were reduced by 96%

Incidents of vandalism went down 69%

Misery went up by 300%

 

Correction*

[Kirkreng]

Student attendance and improvements in academic performance improved after the adoption of uniforms in Kenya.

Also, crimes were reduced after the adoption of uniform policies in one CA school district (see http://www.educationbug.org/a/public-school-uniform-statistics.html).

 

A case study of the effects of adopting school uniforms in Long Beach, CA which appeared in Psychology Today in September, 1999, reported the following effects from the switch to uniforms in 1995:

 

Overall, the crime rate dropped by 91%

School suspensions dropped by 90%

Sex offenses were reduced by 96%

Incidents of vandalism went down 69%

I don't really care about studies when all they say is that A has dropped/risen by B percent. I want to know WHY.

[Average Internet Guy]

It all boils down to whether you believe that the correlation between the adoption of uniform policies causes/partly causes the reduction in violent/disruptive behavior.

[Kirkreng]

Well, to be honest I don't. In fact I don't like the idea of school uniforms at all. It gives the feeling that all students are the same and none of them are unique. Which is just wrong, because especially during that time they are supposed to discover what makes them special and what they will do with their live.

[Alyxx Thorne]

Well, to be honest I don't. In fact I don't like the idea of school uniforms at all. It gives the feeling that all students are the same and none of them are unique. Which is just wrong, because especially during that time they are supposed to discover what makes them special and what they will do with their live.

My point exactly, which is probably why we don't endorse using them in Norway.

[Doom Shepherd]

Try and keep the insults to a minimum.

 

Was that insulting? It was supposed to be sarcastic.

 

If so, then, yeah, sorry.

[Doublenature]

I dont know about the rest of the world, but here in Sweden, we HAVE to go to school its a law. Now if people want education then fine by me, but I dont want to go 6 hours a day to repeat shit I learned in the 3rd grade.... The government just wants slaves who works for them....

 

And by that I mean: HELL NO!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDl6iuku_mw

[Axeldeath]

I like uniforms because they give the school accountability for students that are being disruptive outside of school, which in turn causes the school to try harder to teach the students about right and wrong.

 

I go to a boy's school which makes us wear a uniform and call our teachers "sir" yet I'm not 300% more miserable as Prohypster would claim, I don't feel any different to when I was wearing my own clothes when I went to another school.

[Kirkreng]

But that is different for people. For example some people like expressing themselves through looks, through what they wear, the same way some people like expressing themselves through drawing. Its like school would tell you what you are allowed to draw and what not.

[Scorpia]

i had the ordinary dress code, no uniforms or anything. although i can see the Egregious nature of having to wear a uniform

[Axeldeath]

While you're at school the school does tell you what you can and cannot draw... You aren't allowed to draw any excessively violent or pornographic images.

[Kirkreng]

While at school when I have a break or anything I can draw whatever the hell I want.

[Blue]

On what planet is it THAT easy to switch schools?

 

Exactly. That's why I advocate capitalism.

 

I don't think I'll be able to see any of your opinions (serious or otherwise) as anything but entertainment, Michael.