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Dress for Safety in School

School uniforms should be mandatory in public schools because they are essential to keep students safe in our learning institutions.. Many schools enforce a strict uniform policy while others are lenient with their dress codes. School uniforms help to promote safety for our students.  Some students pride themselves on wearing expensive designer clothes, while others cannot afford the high priced clothes and are often picked on for wearing thrifty clothes. When students are mandated to wear uniforms, the safety of the students who were been picked on decreases. They do not need to fear of what will happen to them when they wear a certain clothes to school. According to PolitiFact “A 1996 study of Long Beach, Calif, schools found a marked decrease in fights, sexual violence and weapons possession two years after adopting school uniforms”(Gilin 1). School uniforms makes it easier for any weapons brought to school be detected because without the school uniforms the student could hide the weapon underneath the baggy clothing that  no one could find. Sexual harassment decreases because girls don’t prance around in mini skirts and tight clothes anymore and the boys do not need to pull their pants so low that one could see their underwear. School uniforms provides security for the students because it makes it easier to spot any intruder that comes in the school because they immediately stands out not wearing a school uniform .

Another reason why school uniforms keep our students safe is that stealing and fighting  decreases when our students wear school uniforms.  According to About Education “ School uniforms decrease  violence and theft because of clothing and shoes”(Kelly 1). Stealing in school decreases because everyone wears the same clothing and not a name brand so no one do not need to take other people clothing, since they also wear the same thing. As stated in Legacy Educational Resources “In 1994, the Long Beach , California , school system began requiring that students wear uniforms.  The system recorded a drop in suspensions, assaults, thefts, vandalism, and weapon and drug violations and an increase in attendance” .  As evidenced in many other studies concerning this same school system, there was a dramatic drop of thirty-six percent in all violent related crimes at school”(Legacy educational resources). As we can see the number of violence in our school decreases if school uniforms are adopted in our learning institutions. So therefore school uniforms should be made mandatory, because they can solve many issues that happens in our school, including violence, theft, weapons use and teasing.

Kelly, Melissa. "School Uniforms: What Are the Pros and Cons?" About.com Education. N.p., 08 Aug. 2016. Web. 05 Nov. 2016.

Gilin, Joshua. "School Uniforms Improve School Safety and Truancy, Rep. Janet Adkins Says." @politifact. N.p., 2 Apr. 2015. Web. 05 Nov. 2016.

Duvall, Brad, Melissa Arrowood Faklaris, Blair Fisher, Matt Moody, Patricia Njagi, and Chuck Wilson. "School Uniforms." School Uniforms. N.p., 25 Feb. 2004. Web. 08 Nov. 2016.