School Uniforms
Totally missed the 12 of 12...but had an intriguing debate after reading today's local paper.
The debaters - my husband and myself
The bait - School Uniforms 1. general principle 2. viability in public schools
The hook - "nazi-esque" imposition of power impinging on constitutional rights or useful tool and just a plain old no brainer in the AM?
Winner of debate - a tie - It's garbage night and the collection and disbursement thereof is a unifying issue.
What are your thoughts vis a vis school uniforms 1. in general 2. viability in public schools? Enquiring minds want to know
The debaters - my husband and myself
The bait - School Uniforms 1. general principle 2. viability in public schools
The hook - "nazi-esque" imposition of power impinging on constitutional rights or useful tool and just a plain old no brainer in the AM?
Winner of debate - a tie - It's garbage night and the collection and disbursement thereof is a unifying issue.
What are your thoughts vis a vis school uniforms 1. in general 2. viability in public schools? Enquiring minds want to know
I hate uniforms. We should all wear them. Mao was right.
Uniforms in schools are not a new idea, and all those whiners who think it is their constituional right to express themselves in dress and style obviously never read the bill of rights.
1.Uniforms serve as a tool of identity (go team)
2.Equalize the playing field in terms of appearance (tell that to the mean girls with the bows)
3.are longterm economical (and short term a bit expensive)
4. serve as a discipline tool (back to the idea of identity and wearing the uniform correctly)
5. Increasingly serve as a different identification tool, for school safety.(you can tell right away who doesn't belong).
I'm done with the use of Nazi to describe anything that speaks of order and process. I'm going to accuse anyone who uses the word Nazi of being an Anarchist. Which one of you two am I addressing in this way?
They are in public schools (elementary, middle, and high) all over the country. Statistics support gains in improved behavior and academics. There's a reason we say "dress for success." Check out phi delta kappan (kappan is not a union, a profesional org)http://www.pdkintl.org/
Viability is perhaps not the question, since it is not only viable, it is happening. It is a trend that is gaining support across the nation. A better question is "what are the results?" or maybe "Is there resistance?" (it's futile).
I win. And I didn't even have to take out the garbage.
PS, this blogger beta stinks---I had to log in as "other"
Posted by
Anonymous |
15 September, 2006 19:51
The husband says uniforms are anarchist-like and will apparently abolish the Constitution. I'm on the side of the no brainer in the am.
Posted by
Brozie |
15 September, 2006 22:43