Throughout my high school years the "uniform" issue came up on a regular basis. Being on student council I was faced with dealing both sides of the issue. The majority of the students disagreed with uniforms while basically the entire faculty and administration favored some sort of a strict dress code. The student council, persuaded by the school board, agreed that shorts should not be any more than a credit card length above the knees or students shall not be to wear any clothes containing any sort of obscenities or profanity. We felt that a dress code was

Uniform supporters feel that uniforms would allow the economically lower class students to feel better about themselves due to the fact that everyone would appear the same. They believe that this would prevent segregation of students by economic status, which would lead to less violence on campus. I believe that students would still be segregated by economic status and thus would not show a decrease in violence. John Hatfield states, "Uniforms would only disguise the student's economic status and would not be a rational answer to cut down on violence." I feel that John's quote is precis. The favoring side of a strict dress code is implying that only the economically lower class students are committing all of violent acts at school. Economic status does not determine the way a students act.

However, many schools felt that enforcing uniforms would be beneficial. Those schools who favor the side of enforcing uniforms believes that wearing uniforms means fewer school related problems. They anticipate that it will push gangs off-campus. They sense that if students can not wear their gang colors to school then they will be unable to show their involvement in their gang while at school. My group member Justin Haley, who attended a private school in which he was forced to wear a uniform, said, "Uniforms would definitely cut down on many gang related problems on campus." He means that gangs would be unable to recognize one another. On the other hand, I believe that just clothing can not control gangs on campus. Gangs will over-lap the standards of uniforms or will find new items to replace the old. When I asked another on of my

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