Persuasive.Sarah

“Only you can change you.” This quote means exactly what it says and teaches everyone a substantial lesson. No one can change you; only you have the will to become someone else. Similarly, uniforms can’t change you. If the school imposes an uniform policy, students still wouldn’t truly change who they are. As of now, our school board wants to instill the school uniform policy to help cut down violence and increase discipline. Enforcing a school policy is a despicable and repulsive idea, as it wouldn’t help confiscate the burdensome problem of violence, taking away our choice of clothes means taking away our individualities, and just because other schools did something, it doesn’t mean they’re right. Most of the students have a hard time picking out clothes to represent their personality. But that doesn’t mean school uniforms can help get rid of that issue. In fact, what uniforms will do is take away our individuality and our personal rights. Uniforms are boring and staid, unlike ourselves. Whereas we are each unique in our own way, uniforms will dampen our bright spirits. In any case, school uniforms will not help exterminate the increasing problem of violence and discipline, but will only increase our conformity. Although the issue of violence is great and significant, uniforms can only make it worse. Uniforms are uncomfortable, ordinary and incredibly stuffy. In order to relax and calm down, our clothes need to be loose and colorful. Instead, uniforms are drab and dark, and those colors remind us of violence. They also invoke a sense of frustration with the tight and prickly clothes in ourselves and that most commonly leads to anger and aggression. By and large, violence issues will not be silenced by the application of school uniforms. Besides all that, just because other schools improved with uniforms, it doesn’t mean our school can improve the same way or have the same repercussions. Different situations have different effects and require other solutions. Our school may not have the same level of violence as others or have kids that get frustrated and angry as easily. Uniforms may not help our school progress away from the issue of violence. After all, like I said before, we are each unique and special in our own way. All in all, school uniforms are unhelpful to the problem of violence, they remove our own individualism, and other examples might not be right for everyone else. Uniforms have the tendency to take away our distinctiveness and vividness. They make the problem worse by making us feel uncomfortable. Our school is different from other schools and we don’t have to be involved or use the same solution to solve this problem. Thus, on the whole, uniforms are a drag that needs to be stopped and removed for keeps.