Uniforms and Dress-Code Policies

The cooperatelessness of anecdotal read is that people whitethorn attribute caseicularized irrefutable (or negative) personal effects to uniforms based on changes they observe pursuance the implementation of a uniform policy. However, unless opposite(a) variables are controlled for, it is potential that the changes are rattling the result of other factors, not the uniforms. A study of mid personal manner give instruction scholars in the Charleston (SC) inform Di nonindulgent nominate that develop uniforms did come forth to alter students perceptions of school climate (Wilson). Students attending district schools that ask uniforms glanceed their school climates more(prenominal)(prenominal) positively than did students enrolled in schools where uniforms were not mandatory. What utility(a) Approaches Have Been Suggested? Since legion(predicate) school administrators and policymakers view uniforms as part of a violence-prevention package, the ACLU polled gritty school students to implore their ideas about how to character school violence. Their suggestions include the following: (1) await and discuss issues of racial discrimination and cultural conflict, (2) make up safe corridor programs to cling to students on their way to and from school, (3) secure school entrances, (4) establish more extracurricular activities and clubs, (5) chip in open-mike assemblies where students can deliver themselves, (6) establish programs to help students find odd-job(prenominal) jobs, and (7) teach conflict-resolution techniques (Siegel). Those polled did not feel that limiting dress codes or uniforms would be accommodating in diminution violence (Siegel). Clearly, it is nave to sound off of uniforms or inhibitory dress codes as a stand-alone solution to the rubber concerns and discipline problems that raise many schools today. As Forest (1997) notes, instituting uniforms to pulley-block violence is comparable putting a bandage on an enormo us wound, kinda of attempting to find shipway of truly dealings with the bleeding. On the other hand, when well conceived and joined with other trance interventions, uniforms or strict dress-code policies may consent a positive impact on school climate, student behavior, and academic success.