Data Bases • Custom Term Papers • Free Term Papers • Free Research Papers • Free Essays • Free Book Reports • Plagiarism? Links • Top 100 Term Paper Sites • Top 25 Essay Sites • Top 50 Essay Sites • Search 97,000 Papers @ DirectEssays.com • Search 101,000 Papers @ ExampleEssays.com • Search 90,000 Papers @ MegaEssays.com Free Essays • Term Paper Sites • Chuck III's Free Essays • Free College Essays • TermPaperSites.com • Free Essays • My Term Papers • Essay World • Planet Papers	Search Lots of Essays Back to Subjects - Education School Uniforms Solving the problem School Uniforms Solving the problem Over the past couple of years, school uniform policies have been enforced as the most efficient method for “solving” problems such as crime and attendance ratings in our public schools. Many schools state that it is quite true that uniforms are lowering such mentioned rates of crime tremendously, but can this really be proven? Currently, there have only been informal studies that try to actually see if uniforms are helping, no long term studies. Technically speaking then, mandating uniforms in our school systems is not the key to fixing problems with the youth. For example, California’s Long Beach school district says that ever since the year of 1994, when uniforms in their schools were put into place, the crime there has dropped by seventy-six percent and attendance ratings have never been higher. This of course sounds lovely and all but the fact is that it just has not been proven that the uniforms themselves have helped make these problems better. Even if it had been proven that the uniforms are helping over anything else, they still have been creating other problems. “Clothes are a source of expression for children, and as kids gets older, they become increasingly resentful of uniforms,” said Dr. Alan Hilfer who later added that uniform policies take way our children’s individualities. Other education experts see the uniforms as a violation to the rights of the students to their freedom of expression and that they are only cover-ups to the real problems with the youth that are at hand. In a recent online poll asking the viewers of the site about clothes at school and who exactly should be making the rules. Of the 5,017 people that voted, the top result was thirty-one percent going to the parents' daily decision, leaving uniforms tied in third place with only twenty percent. In May of the year 2000, 755 principals from around the nation that did not have uniform policies in effect at their schools and were members of the National Association of Elementary School Principals, the NAESP, were surveyed on the issue of uniforms in the schools. The top two results came back at thirty-nine percent stating that it had not been raised as an issue and twenty-nine percent stating that they felt their current dress codes were sufficient. As Louis D. Brandeis once said, "America has believed that in differentiation, not uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief, it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered." There are already enough problems that each of us has to face each day, most of us often put the problems on ourselves. The youth of today should be able to feel comfortable everywhere they go, to be who they are, dress like they want, to keep this country really free. Besides what the students want, those in charge of the school districts around America should dive into the real problems and find ways to fix them for good, not just make it look better in the schools. Bibliography: Word Count: 502
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