Expensive Cloth
Students’ parents spend hundreds of dollars every year on clothes for their children. They wear these clothes five days a week, seven hours a day. Schools have turned to making their students wear expensive and uncomfortable clothes just because it keeps them more “safe”. Schools have had uniforms for a long time, but now schools are taking it to far by forcing families to spend hard earned money on clothes their kids only wear to school. Keeping kids from being themselves at school. Schools should not have dress codes because it limits students’ self-expression they’re expensive.
Wearing a uniform limits self-expression and personal style. Students need to learn to be themselves and standout from the rest of the crowd. For example, “Children are always taught to break free and standout. But with uniforms, the schools are actually lobbying the opposite” (Listland 1). If uniforms are teaching kids the opposite of what they were taught while growing up then clearly …show more content…
This is a logical point, but it is not supported by conclusive evidence because more than a billion dollars are spent every year on uniforms. It is actually more expensive for families to buy uniforms than it is to buy their kids “current trends”. For example, “Uniform tops cost $26.99, uniforms bottoms cost $34.99 or $44.99, pullovers cost $39.99 and vest cost $35.99. That is just for an elementary school” (Kaitlyn 1). If uniforms cost that much for just elementary schools and parents have to scrape the bottom of the jar to find enough money just to buy some clothes then there should be no dress codes at schools. Students are forced to where uncomfortable, expensive, and dull clothes that their parents spend hundreds of dollars on every year because schools see little bits of evidence that isn’t even backed up in the end but because of their pride they keep the dress