School Uniform Issue
A Great First Step to Improving Our Nation’s Schools The rise of violence in today’s schools is being considered the worst threat facing the youth of our nation by many school and health professionals (King 1). School officials search for answers to help improve the environment of their schools, only to see conditions continue to deteriorate. Officials have looked into using more security, turn the school year into an all year program, switching schools into magnet schools, implementing school uniform programs, and some schools have even went to the extreme of adding metal detectors in the main entrances of the school. In 1994 Long Beach Unified School District, in California, became the first major school district in the nation to implement a mandatory school uniform policy. According to an article by Jessica Portner, the policy required 83,000 elementary and middle school students to begin wearing a school uniform. Since then, school officials report a 76% drop in crime from the year before the implementation to the 1996-97 school year. The question is are mandatory school uniform policies the first step in improving the quality of education children in every school across the nation receive today?
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