I have to say something about this. I am all in favor of strict school uniforms. I believe it would tremendously help the discipline problems. However, it is completely insensitive to maturing girls and young women to force them only to wear Khaki pants. They should have the option to wear black or khaki or they could all be in black pants, which I think definitely looks better than khaki, anyway.

...no long-term empirical studies have been conducted to assess the effectiveness of school uniforms or specific dress codes, the results remain anecdotal and unproven”

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Knox County schools with uniforms or "dress for success" require the kids to wear unisex shirts. For the girls this means that the buttons are on the wrong side, the shoulders are way too big, the shirt sleeves hang below the elbow and the waste is tight. For the boys they fit perfect. It's just plain wrong but has been explained to me as a cost saving measure.
I also suspect that in the interest of saving even more money, the shirts are seconds. According to my daughter, every child in the school has a tear in the exact same place at the back of the arm where the seam wasn't complete.
And even more interesting to me was the brand label tag inside. This particular brand does not offer the type of shirts that are being sold. Knock offs maybe?
I say if we are going to require a uniform, let's make it a good one that fits.

Sorry...but as WhitesCreek notes... There is simply no reason to believe that this is effective in academic terms. How about we try to make school a place where children are active participants in their learning and therefore more likely to develop a "respect for education." If you want children to embrace schooling then don't create schools that are prisons.

The students I'm working with this semester are the cream of the crop at their high school, and they hate the place. The reason they are the cream of the crop is that they've learned how to play the game, but they hate the very idea of schooling. Needless to say, they are extremely bright, but they are also completely incurious. All that concerns them is what they will be tested on... Material that is memorized, regurgitated, and promptly forgotten. And I don't blame them at all... I blame the institution that has crushed their curiosity in the name of discipline which is where these idiotic calls for school uniforms find their justification. It has nothing to do with learning. [/rant]