Blake Brantley - Uniforms

 Throughout private elementary, middle, and high schools in the United States, uniforms are required to foster an environment of acceptance and unity. Uniforms are put into place in order to prevent students from being ashamed of the clothes they wear compared to others and to have students be ready to work in a professional environment. With all that in place, I believe that uniforms should not be a worn at any schools. I understand uniforms to jobs where one needs to identify themself with an organization, like a cop on duty or a military office, but children have no need to be wearing them. If schools want to foster acceptance and unity, there are many other ways, such as special events and school assemblies, that can achieve this goal without forcing the students to wear uncomfortable fabric everyday. As long as students are not wearing pajamas to school, they should be in clothes appropriate to complete the school work on a given day. By not wearing uniforms, not only can school still be a place of acceptance, but it can also be one of individuality. By stripping students of their individuality, of what they wear, how can schools expect them to act more mature and complete the given assignments more efficiently.

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  1. Charlotte AtkinsonMay 3, 2026 at 9:37 PM

    My middle school/high school had mandated uniforms for us to wear. The girls wore skirts and leggings, the boys wore khakis, and we all wore sweatshirts. I think my school’s intent was to make us look nice and put together, to really fit the “prep school” image. But this all backfired by allowing us to wear sweatshirts. So instead of putting effort into creating individual outfits that we are proud of, we all looked like ‘slobs’, to quote my mother. I ended up not minding it much after the first year, except for the fact that April and May were unbearably hot. The girls were forced to wear leggings with their skirts, and whenever we would go outside, I would overheat and not feel well. All of this to say, I think the intent behind the uniform got lost in the implementation. I think that sometimes when an idea is held onto too tightly, it loses the original vision. They cared so much about the uniforms that the purpose of looking put together and nice got lost.

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