School uniforms: Yay or Nay?

[The Xenos]

Well... maybe if a girlfriend and I are role playing....

Uniforms, no. Dress codes, yes.

Yeah. That's what my school had and it worked somewhat well. Collar shirts were mandatory. No jeans. That type of thing.

[dasNdanger]

I decided on 'No'.

Uniforms will not be comfortable on everyone. Uniforms have a uniform cut, and not every body is uniform (I remember some of our workers complaining about their uniforms being very uncomfortable in the crotch, for instance). So some will feel physically uncomfortable, while others may feel mentally uncomfortable (a modest girl may not like a short uniform skirt, for instance). If a kid is physically or mentally uncomfortable, he/she may have as much trouble focusing on their work as the kid distracted by the girl with the big boobies two rows over in the fuzzy pink midriff and thigh-high boots. Both extremes can lead to problems.

Instead, I think the middle ground of a dress code is best. It allows a kid to wear clothes they are comfortable in, without going to the extremes, or identifying with a gang or sub-culture.


das

[CutterMike]

Oh my gosh, how true. The area where I went to HS the bus drivers on that route had a devil of a time. There were 3 different rival HS on one route. The poor driver would have ulcers picking up everyone. At the back of the bus were the snoty 'richy-rich' type of kids. The middle was my school, and at the front, the rougher kids.

I swear, it was like west side story on a bus. There was an unspoken rule that if you crossed that invisible line, it was go time. It was a little hostile back then.

But, see, for the truly paranoid (or, as I like to put it -- "sensible") individual, if everybody is wearing the same uniform, you know that they all have the same places to conceal their weapons. It limits the moves that you have to watch for.

(Well... unless, like you, they did their own custom tailoring, but the ones who'll do that is usually a pretty short list.)