The colors don"t symbolize anything, and wearing one could save your life." Students should not be worrying about their safety in schools. They should be focusing on their academic abilities. This is an example of how uniforms can make a child feel more comfortable in their school and safety will no longer be their main agenda in school. Finally, Dr. Reginald Wilson, Senior Scholar of the American Council on Education, said uniforms make a quite a bit of difference and they have worked in reducing violent behavior in schools. If uniforms are enforced students will be able to work steadily and surely, not worrying about their safety. Just as important, school uniforms eliminate crimes of jealousy among students because of how they are dressing. In the State of the Union Address, President Clinton expressed his whole-hearted support towards invoking school uniforms. He addressed the nation and said public schools should be able to implement mandatory school uniforms "if it means teenagers will stop killing each other over designer jackets." Similarly, Staff Attorney of the National School Boards Association, Naomi Gittins, said, "but junior and senior high schools use [school uniforms] to keep kids from fighting over the latest fashions." In the 1994-95 school years of Long Beach schools, while uniforms were implemented, acts of violence, partly due to jealousy, dropped a staggering 50%. Lastly, Thriftone V. Jones, President of the D.C. Congress of Parents and Teachers said, "clothes breed jealousy because people will want what another has." Apparently, many students feel clothes make the man. If uniforms were introduced many students would feel like equals and therefore would not have to envy each other for clothes. In considering this, many students would not have reasons to quarrel and act pugnacious towards one another.

             School uniforms have not only led to a decline in the number of violent acts committed by students, but they have worked in building an all-round better learning environment for students.