Fewer pupils of primary-school age meet WHO minimum in countries where uniforms are the norm, Cambridge study finds
  • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    If uniforms are absolutely necessary make everyone where the same thing. Pants and shorts for all.

    • mriormro@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      The standard child school uniform should be a michelin man costume.

      Identity: protected

      Safety: ensured

      Chefs: embittered

      Bullies: confused

    • 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      This is how the schools are here in Arizona. Uniforms, but pants and shorts for all the students. Girls can also wear skirts, but really its just shorts that look like skirts.

    • Flumpkin@slrpnk.net
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      8 months ago

      School uniforms promote a more classless society. In retrospect I definitely would have favored them. Of course they should be unisex.

      • HandBreadedTools@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        8 months ago

        Only when the kids’ parents can afford the uniforms, which has historically been used to divide the poor from the middle and upper classes.

          • GratefullyGodless@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            8 months ago

            “What is a speed suit? Only the perfect habilitant for the science minded man, who knows both comfort and ease and demands them from his clothing. In a speed suit you say to the world: ‘Look out! I know what I’m wearing for the rest of my life!'” — Dr. Venture

      • jagungal@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        They have their pros and cons. I wore a uniform to a public school (Australia) and it definitely meant that I had one less thing to worry about every day: being judged by what I wore. As an adolescent that meant a lot, and getting the freedom to wear whatever as an adult has meant that:

        1. I got to learn what’s appropriate before I got that freedom and

        2. I had the maturity to not care what others thought about how I dressed.

      • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
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        8 months ago

        I went to a school uniform school (uk). It had its pros and cons but having 5 polo shirts, 2 sweaters, 3 pairs of black trousers (pants), a pair of shoes and a backpack wasn’t the craziest ask for a decade of schooling.