One problem with this is it going to effect children in the work force? We teenagers work to pay for our gas, going out, our vehicles and insurance, cell phones, and other things. Is being paid for our grades going to inhibit our ability to work? Were going to be paid from elementary to high school. Then we graduate and the money stops. What are we going to do then? Oh yeah, its called a job. An 18 year old for the first time getting a job and working. This program would be really nice if it would actually hurt. I would love to not work throughout high school because I get burned out. Between school, work, and homework, I get overloaded. Honestly though, were is the money going to come from in order to pay for these grades? Taxes are going to increase and parents are not going to be happy about that. There is so many problems with these programs that it just would not work. It is a really nice thought but in reality, it will never happen.
Why should students that go to private schools have to wear uniforms? Those kids have to pay a tuition and everything. In public schools we don’t pay a tuition. If anything, we should have to wear uniforms not private schools. That argument has no support to it.
Another thing you talk about is the price of school uniforms. When you think about it, we go to school during the winter months mostly. Therefore we have a lot of sweaters, coats, long sleeve shirts, and regular shirts. Well, if we had to wear school uniforms, the winter clothing would merely be wiped out of our wardrobe. Therefore, our parents would save money.
You say that if all students wore uniforms, they wouldn’t learn that people are different than themselves and they can express themselves differently. This is not true. As I said before, we go to school throughout the winter months. We have weekends and the whole summer off of school where we wouldn’t have to wear uniforms. In this time, we can express ourselves and show that we are not all similar. You also talk about how its not fair for students to have to wear uniforms because it restricts their right to express how they feel. You should know by now that any student that expresses themselves out of the normal crowd of students get laughed at. That is one main cause of bullying. There are so many different “types” of students. We have the nerds, popular, goth, athletic, etc. When you think about it though, if you are not popular or athletically dressed, you get picked on. There is always something for someone to judge you for.
Clothing parents buy for their children are sometimes unacceptable. Have you seen the way some girls dress in our school? This is a true statement. I was in Debs about a month ago with Erin Fineran and there was a girl and her mother who were trying on clothes. The girl came out of the dressing room and the mother said, “It doesn’t show your thigh enough”. This girl had on shorts that made her look like she was wearing a thong, it was disgusting. Then her mom proceeded to hand her a crop top. If I were to dress like this, my mom would slap me.
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Alfie Kohn, author of Punished by Rewards, said research confirms that "the bigger the reward, the more damage it does" by encouraging students to focus on the treats and goodies, not the learning. "The more you use cell phones, T-shirts, money or whatever, the more you undermine motivation for becoming engaged and prolific learners," he said.
This is a great quote because its true. The more the incentive is the bigger the problem we are going to have. These studies suggest that instead of developing a love for learning, students are being trained to do the minimum amount of work needed to get the reward, and then they lose interest. They soon will get tired of these programs and go back to the way they were before. Most students are able to go to their parents and get money or have a job. Why should they work hard to get good grades when they have other ways of obtaining money?
Critics of these programs say school administrators should not be turning the schoolhouse into a workplace. These programs cheapen the educational experience by using bribes to win temporary obedience. Psychological studies going back as far as the early 1970's have found that rewards programs may produce less engaged students.
Although these programs are unique and I would not mind having one in our school, they are just not realistic. Even if they were to work, where are we getting all this money to pay for the programs? That is a lot of money per school and we have a lot of schools in the United States. Where in the world is this money going to come from? The best answer would be the parents pockets. If these programs were to be started, taxes would certainly increase. There is no other way to fund these programs.
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Research has been done on this topic by a Harvard economics professor, Roland Fryer. Fryer is also the founder of Harvard's Education Innovation Laboratory. Fryer studied nearly 40,000 students at low performing urban public schools throughout Houston, Dallas, New York, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. Fryer found that paying for grades results in a very small, if any, impact on improving grades. For example, in Chicago, Fryer paid 9th graders for their report card grades. He gave them $50 for an A, $35 for a B, $20 for a C, and nothing for a D or less. The result of this experiment was depressing. According to Fryer, the students' overall GPAs at the end of the year, increased only slightly, with the average 9th grader's GPA increasing from 1.9 to 2.0.
In New York, Fryer investigated whether financial rewards improved performance on standardized exams. For each exam, 4th graders earned $5 for simply completing the test. The 4th graders could then get $25 for a perfect score. He then did this study with 7th graders. They received $10 to simply finish the test and $50 for getting all the answers correct. Again, the result was that students in the 4th and 7th grades showed no improvement on standardized test scores even when money was dangled in front of their faces.
One theory on why money can't buy good grades is because students don’t know how to improve. For example, when Fryer's team asked students in New York what the best strategies were to raise their exam scores, they said they'd try to read the test questions more carefully, re-read their answers to make sure they entered them correctly, and take their time rather than race to see who could finish first.
Although these are all reasonable ideas, Fryer pointed out that no student mentioned the techniques that are probably the most critical ingredients to boosting scores such as: reading the textbook more carefully, studying harder or asking a teacher for help. Just like in New York, students in Chicago did not seem to know the most efficient strategies to improve their grades. Maybe parents and teachers are demanding improvement without showing students the right paths they need to take to get there.
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Just because students are wearing different clothes to school doesn't mean the world is ending. Their priority at school is to learn, not to socialize. Students have the weekend and after school to socialize. School uniforms do not turn any students' lives upside down. They still have the same friends, classes, and routine, just with different clothes. So what seems to be the problem? School uniforms do not keep students from expressing themselves creatively. There are plenty of ways for people to express themselves creatively, without doing it in their manner of clothing. Students may learn to write, play music, draw, dance, and all the many things that kids should learn when they're kids. School uniforms keep students from ranking each other according to what they wear, and keeps them in the mindset to learn when they're at school. Expressing themselves without the need for lewd clothing is an amazing talent. Another benefit to school uniforms is getting students ready for the workforce. Many occupations require uniforms. There are jobs out there that let you choose what you wear, but you still have to dress professionally. Therefore school uniforms can help students get adapted to living in the real world.
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1. School uniforms can be inexpensive. A lot of schools after graduation, let kids donate their uniforms back to the school. Therefore people who can’t afford new ones, they can purchase used ones. The money the school makes then goes to fund school programs. You made the argument that parents still have to buy clothes for the summer, well they do that now too. We go to school in mostly the winter months. I myself and most of my friends have a decent array of clothing. I have winter, spring, and summer clothes. School uniforms would definitely throw out the winter clothes and some of the spring clothing. Therefore, wouldn't it save parents money to have uniforms?
2. We might not have gang violence in small town Ida Grove, but you would be surprised that a lot of schools do. According to Michelle Arciaga, Wayne Sakamoto, and Errika Fearbry Jones, forty-five percent of high school students say that there are gangs or students who consider themselves to be a part of a gang in their school. Thirty-five percent of middle school students say that there are gangs or students who consider themselves to be part of a gang in their schools.
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3. School uniforms decrease bullying and harassment. With a good school uniform, body types disappears. It is hard to distinguish who is cool and who is not. It is also harder to see any economic differences between students because they are forced to wear the same clothes. Poor students will not be wearing “rags” to school and popular students will not be wearing the “in style” clothing. Another thing is that the students will have a common hate, the school uniform. Again, this will help break the economic barriers between students. Also, if schools really are worried about boys being distracted by a female’s body, the right school uniform will help. Females and males in schools might then be less sexually driven. I say this because I personally learned about sex at a very young age. My friends told me all about it when I was around the age of 10. Maybe wearing school uniforms will lesson the barrier between girls and boys and decrease the knowledge about the differences each gender has. Therefore young students of different sexes will intermingle with each other not knowing that they are two separate beings and wanting to know why they have different body parts.
4. Your opinion of shooters in the school was that they are mostly kids. Well, take Sandy Hook elementary school for example. That was not a student. If all of the students and teachers had certain outfits to wear, maybe this shooting could have been prevented. Not all school shootings are performed by students. But even if we put a scenario of a student being the shooter, they could still detect which student did it. It's not like everyone's hair, face, skin, and body type will be the same, just the clothing.
A famous quote from President Clinton was in 1996 when he said, "If it means teenagers will stop killing each other over designer jackets, then our public schools should be able to require their students to wear school uniforms."
A lot of people are against school uniforms but a lot of people are for them. School uniforms do not kill anybody. In fact, according to Marian Wilde, they save lives. By enforcing school uniforms, it is said that there is a lesser rate of gangs forming at school. This is a great benefit because gangs usually dress in color code. Two gangs for example that do this is the Bloods and the Crypts. For example, the Bloods wear red to represent their gang, whereas the Crypts wear blue to represent theirs. Therefore, it would be harder to depict the different gangs in the school and there would be less violence.
Wilde also says that school uniforms help parents save money due to the fact that their children are not peer pressured into buying the “in style” of clothing. This is very common in probably every school around the world. There are always those “popular” people who influence the style of clothing that everyone should where. With school uniforms though, they are already wearing the same thing as those “popular” kids. Therefore there would not be any peer pressure for the kids to buy expensive clothing, like Buckle. This would also mean that students would have an increase sense of belonging and school pride, because peers would not be able to make fun of other students for the type of clothing that they wear.
Another benefit is how young men are not as distracted when the young girls wear school uniforms. There is no explicit body parts being flaunted so the young men keep their eyes on their school work rather than their peers. Therefore grades would increase and teen pregnancy would decrease.
One major benefit of the school uniforms would be the fact that all the students would have the same clothing on. Therefore, if any intruder enters the school, they would be easily spotted. This could decrease school shootings drastically.
Overall, school uniforms seem to be quite helpful in schools around the world. This is mostly due to the fact that students are wearing the same clothing and are not going to be distinguished as a gang member, poor, or rich. All the students would have the same appearance. Also, it would keep intruders out and prevent school shootings. Altogether, school uniforms can save lives, decrease bullying, increase grades, and decrease teen pregnancy.
Banning books is a common practice around the world. Some books, articles, and magazines should be banned from public libraries and school libraries. I wouldn't want my 7 year old sister walking into the library and picking up a Playboy magazine. I'm not sure that all explicit books should be banned, but they should have an age limit or grade limit. For instance, "The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn", would not be a good book to read to a second grader. First off, there is an underlying message in the book that little kids probably wouldn't understand. Secondly, the book uses vulgar language and has cruel details and situations. Therefore, books should not be banned but they should have an age limit. In schools, books should have a code on them where a child under a certain grade can not check them out. In public libraries, children should be issued a library card and number. The child's information will be on the card so the librarian can prevent any under aged children from checking out certain books. The only problem that would occur is how we would categorize the books for different ages. Librarians would have to go through and see how much sexual content, vulgar language, and cruel situations occur in these books. With this type of categorization, libraries will be more like movie theaters.
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