Sorry, I don't get it. Why would you want to dress like everybody else? I have heard girls say that they love school uniforms because it would take them forever to get ready if they had to figure out what to wear. I guess what I'm hearing is "I'm to lazy to dress myself". I guess being an American is just more work too because you are expected to have your own thoughts and personality. Yes, it would be easier to live in a communist country. Think about it, half the time you wouldn't even have to go to the dinner table, or cook dinner because there wouldn't be any food. You also wouldn't have to go to the bathroom as much, if you didn't eat. You could probably get a real easy job too, one that doesn't require you to have any original thoughts, or think much. Oh, but then you hear stuff like "the kids wouldn't dress appropriately", give me a break. I have seen girls in uniform with pants so tight you have to wonder how she got them on. Seriously, few young women look cute in tight pants, others look very sexual in tight pants, and are not dressed appropriately. If this doesn't make sense, look at it this way - Say you have 2 young men in tights. One could be considered appropriately dressed, while the other, Tom Jones Jr., looks just downright obscene. Loosen up the pants girls, and you will look a lot more professional and will gain respect and attention from the right guys. Let the dogs run to the loose girls in the overly tight pants.

Do you really think that the kids want to dress like everyone else? I just always suspected that uniforms are policy so they will be worn, that most parents probably like it but that the girls hate it. Especially teenagers who like to be creative and develop their own style.

There is a flip side though and I think that uniforms would be an advantage to the kids who don't have parents with deep pockets and generous handouts. High school can be a very cruel place, as we all know. The haves have always and will always look down upon the have nots. It's mean and unfair but it's life. A uniform policy blurs the line between those who are financially blessed and those who are not and evens the playing field a little. If Buffy has to wear khakis like everyone else instead of designer clothes it makes her less elite and more every child.

I think schools that are lax with their enforcement of the proper uniform policy are the ones to blame. If proper attire is clearly spelled out before mom and dad go shopping, and if the kids are sent home when they don't conform, uniforms would then serve their purpose instead of just being an arbitrary, mandatory but largely-ignored rule.

-nab