Pros and Cons of Wearing School Uniforms

Education is not only studying. It contains of many different factors, such as students’ attitude to learning, the environment they learn in, books they learn from and even, as revealed, clothes they wear while learning. Many private and public schools force their students to wear uniforms. But does it have positive or negative impact on them? What are the advantages and disadvantages of it?

Starting up with cons, school uniforms put restrictions on students’ freedom of expression. Teenagers put a lot attention to their appearance. It is natural that they want to look unique and unlike anybody else. The need of expression through clothing in an important feature of teenage years, so if the school forbades it, I it does it against adolescents’ nature.

Secondly, uniforms may have a hurtful impact on students’ self-image. When every person in a school has to wear exactly the same clothes, it may cause a lot of insecurities in students who have different body features than regular ones. For example, very tall, very short, very skinny or overweight person will not look as good as a middle-high and middle-weight one in some specific piece of clothing. People who have different body types should have the ability to wear clothes suitable to them in order to look good and, more importantly, feel good with themselves.

Thirdly, uniforms in public schools undermine the promise of a free education. They are usually quite expensive, but parents have to buy them anyway when their children go to one of the schools where they are mandatory. . Uniforms simply impose extra expenses on family when there is actually no need for it.

But there are also pros of wearing school uniforms . First up, school uniforms keep students focused on their education, not their clothes. As I previously mentioned, it is natural for teenagers to pay a lot of attention to their appearance. But on the other hand it may have, on long term, negative impact on their school results. Wearing uniforms may help students to stay focused on things that really matters in education.

Secondly, wearing uniforms enhances school’s unity and community spirit. Teenagers want to find the place they really belong. Why can’t it be school? They want to be part of different subcultures and groups, they want to have something in common with other people. Why can’t them be school mates? Uniforms may represent a kind of connection between students and for some help to awake their inner team spirit.

Thirdly, wearing a school uniform is simply a very comfortable option, especially for ones always in hurry in the morning. School uniforms make getting ready for school easier, which can improve students’ punctuality.

Summing up, it is hard to make a decision whether students should have to wear school uniforms or not. One thing is clear- this issue has both pluses and minuses, so every school with or without mandatory uniforms is somehow right.

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