Purpose of School Uniforms
Stated purpose for uniforms, often set forth in school uniform policies, include reducing clothing expenditures for parents as well as avoiding distinctions among children based on whose parents can afford to buy them fashionable clothing to wear to school. The conservative clothing is also said to reduce distractions and help with student identification, ensuring that a stranger will stand out among the uniformed students.
Other than the reduction in clothing expenditures and pure logic, there is no concrete evidence that any of the above purposes outlined above ring true. Districts and schools around the country have been implementing uniforms as a deterrent to violent acts committed by students. While some schools do boast a correlative decrease in violence, the overall statistics remain either virtually unchanged or show only a marginal decline.
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