• EsheLynn@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    Who purchases the uniforms? You mentioned impoverished kids being made fun of, but the parents have to buy the expensive, overinflated uniforms as well. Wouldn’t that put more strain on less well off families, having to buy specific clothes for their child’s attendance, each year for each child?

    • PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      No. It was just single colored shirt and pants. We got wal mart shirts for the dress code. They’ll still fuck with you for your shoes.

    • paintbucketholder@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I’m generally not in favor of uniforms, but this argument really goes both ways: who purchases (potentially very expensive brand) clothes in a school setting where the expectation is that kids constantly wear nice, new clothes to school? Even assuming that bullying or mobbing based on clothes isn’t an issue, the cost to keep buying outfits could easily be higher than the cost of uniforms.

      That said, I’ve known problematic settings only by proxy. At my school, nobody gave a fuck about what students were wearing, there was no dress code, and I would have absolutely hated being forced to wear a uniform.

        • ToxicWaste@lemm.ee
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          1 year ago

          But that is just regulation for regulations sake. Since you can buy the cheap walmart stuff or an expensive italian designer - it really does not fulfill the only supposed benefit of stopping bullying.