aquaknight
Active Member
Originally Posted by 1journeyman
http:///forum/post/2753258
Children are individuals, but they are not adults. Enforcing a code of conduct and uniform is in no way unAmerican, unless you wish to argue our military should not be uniformed. If it is good enough for an 18 year old fighting in the hills of Afghanistan its good enough for a HS student.
Uniforms are for 'teams.' To identify who is on your side, be it, a football team or the military. I also tend to thing the camoflague part of their uniforms, of those 18 year olds in the desert, are sort of important too. Kids in high school aren't part of any team. They are there to get an education and socialize. If adminstrators need the crutch of uniforms because they can't enforce the current dress code (which I'm all for, even a strictier code), that's pathetic. Also if parents think uniforms are needed to mask social issues. If high school kids can't cope with that they only have a wal-mart shirt, how are they going to cope in real life? When they go to pick their date up for the first date, and their car is some beater, and not a Mercedes or something? Or take their boss out to lunch, and it's in some rusty wagon that smells like leaking gas? This is just like the driver's age issue. At some point, you're going to have learn how to drive. Whatever age it starts out at, is always going to have the most deaths. Be it 16 year olds or 25 year olds. And at some point in life, you're going ot have to learn your 'social place' in society.
It's just amusing in a way, and depressing in another, that how 'far' the nation has come in 30 years. From where students won a court case against their district because they were told not to wear an ARMBAND, to now forcing kids to wear uniforms.
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