Everyone has their own opinion on almost everything. Some are good, and some are bad. When it comes to school uniforms, opinions come in handy to everyone. Should we get them? Should we not? Why/why not? There are many different questions we could ask on this topic. The Logan View administrators are considering school uniforms as a requirement from now on and some people may or may not like the fact on having to be told what to wear instead of having the ability to wear what ever they please. There are many pro’s and con’s to this conflict and like I said before, everyone has their own opinion.
A Senior at Logan View, Ryan Timmerman said that he was against school uniforms. Ryan had said that he doesn’t like school uniforms because he thinks that you can’t express yourself in any way by wearing clothes that the school would be wasting their money on. “They would get boring and I would get tired of wearing the same thing five days a week and for however many weeks we have in the school year.” Ryan said. They might have options that you can choose from but it would all be very dull and no fun in the end. He had said that he already doesn’t like the school so if it really came to matter, he would try to rebel, but in appropriate ways. He also thinks that no one would like them at all.
There are many cons about school uniforms that many people would agree with. A lot of people like showing their personality and who they are through their clothing. Being comfy, with what ever you feel like wearing, can lead you to a good attitude. If students wore something that they wouldn’t like, they might not be very happy campers. Their might be choices in uniforms such as skirts, shorts, pants, polo’s, t-shirts, jackets, etc., but having to wearing the same thing each day might get a little boring for a few students. But for those other few students that would like them, they’d be willing to proceed with having a change in form at school.
Emily Scholl, a Junior at Logan View was for school uniforms. She says that it would eliminate many problems that clothes caused at school such as distractions of appearance and having dress codes cause conflict; someone might have their shorts to high or their baggy pants too low and with school uniforms, we would not have to worry about that problem. She thinks that it would students wouldn’t get judged for what they wore whether if they were wearing some high quality jeans or if they were wearing a shirt they had got from Goodwill. Their would be a lot less stereotyping because students don’t have much money as others, and she thinks that students would also be focusing on school more and staying less out of trouble. In her opinion she thinks that many students might be upset at first, but in the run, they’ll like it. Any kid who has gone to a private school would agree that uniforms are great.
With that there comes a positive look on having school uniforms. You won’t have to wake up as early as usual trying to figure out what to wear, because it’s already picked out for you. We wouldn’t be distracted with how we look and we would be able to concentrate more on the school work. Having uniforms would also make us look “professional”. For example, when there is a sporting event and parents and other students come to our home games, it makes not only us, but the Logan View look good as well.
So who knows if the administration will follow through with school uniforms or not, but if it happens I could see the students here at Logan View turning out to like the school uniforms. They may not be in style, but they sure would help with focusing in on school work and not having to worry about what you or what others wear to school, yet again it would kind of be a disadvantage, ’cause we’d all look the same!
