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tikkunolamorgtfo: fortheloveofallthingsgay: tikkunolamorgtfo: oakleafwolf: bruhan-kishibe: school uniforms shouldn’t be mandatory IF they are mandatory, they MUST be free. In this way, everyone has the same quality of clothing and no one “looks poor”. If the idea behind uniforms is to make everyone the same and stop clothing based conflict, the uniforms have to be free, it’s the only way to justify them. I’d say we shouldn’t treat children like they’re fucking prisoners, but actually the majority of prisons in the UK don’t require uniforms because “research showed inmates responded better to rules if they were allowed to wear their own clothes.” Why we haven’t figured out that children are due the same level of self-identity and respect is fucking beyond me. School uniforms are absolutely a violation of human rights (not even to mention ableist, and often sexist/cissexist, racist, etc). School uniforms were introduced to help give everyone the same quality of clothing during school. Instead of some kids coming in in £200 shirts and some coming in in £3 shirts everyone wears the same. Also means parents only have to buy like 2 outfits for the school year. They are good things. They should just be free to people who need them. They are in place to reduce bullying Actually, they were introduced for the exact opposite reason. The modern institution of school uniform (which became common in the 18th century) was initially introduced as a marker of class status, to outwardly indicate you could afford to be educated, and to show off exactly which institution you were privileged enough to attend. This is why many schools had uniforms that were effectively formal attire (see the uniform at Eton for an example of what many institutions used to have). It was effectively an act of deliberately dressing up to show off and let everyone know which educational version of a country club you belonged to. Later, when it came to the instances of orphanages and charity schools, the goal was less to be a leveller than it was to instil a sense of “humility, lower class status and expected social role.” As researcher Kate Stephenson notes: “In these [poorer] institutions uniforms functioned as both a practical method of ensuring children were sufficiently clothed and a way by which the working class status of pupils could be reinforced. Garments sought to inculcate humility in the children designating their role and intended career paths within society whilst also indicating their lowly status and demonstrating the difference between them and people of higher rank. This is demonstrated through, not only the design of the uniform, but the colour and type of fabric used to manufacture them. Blue was most prominent in charity uniforms and this dye was cheap and generally associated with the clothing of servants and the working classes.” They were never meant for the purposes of equality, but rather to be an immediate shorthand for who’s rich and who’s poor. The class equality argument is entirely a fiction. They are not “good things” and they are do not reduce bullying. Like, at all. Several studies have shown that school bullying is actually far worse in the UK (where school uniform as an institution is ubiquitous) than it is in other European countries (where it is not). Similar studies have also shown they do nothing to improve learning or test results. School uniform is in place to do one thing and one thing only, and that is to assert control and dominance over children for the peace of mind of adults. This quote pretty much sums it up for me: [Efrat] Tseëlon, a social psychologist specialising in visual appearance, says the British devotion to uniform reflects “a general etiquette towards children” defined by power, control and a lack of trust. There is no evidence that uniforms increase discipline and arguments about “levelling” are just “conscience laundering” – uniforms are used for precisely the opposite purpose by fee-paying (and an increasing number of specialist state) schools: as a badge of distinction. Control, distrust, and obsessive class branding. That’s all it is, and all it ever has been. -- source link
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