School Uniforms?

             Our school is one of the few private schools on Saipan.  We have many strict rules compared to other schools however, we have something on many of the other schools.  This is the fact that we don’t have to wear uniforms to school.  Many students like this because they have freedom of dress and can express themselves in that way.  We also dislike uniforms because they don’t look good.  People have only a couple of pairs that have to be worn often and sometimes cannot be washed.  Uniforms take fashion out of people and in their minds make the less attractive.  Most kids dislike uniforms and all of the Saipan International School students are grateful that they don’t have to wear one. 


              The first thing that uniforms bring is an expensive price to the school, and a lack of enough uniforms for a person.  The school may have to pay over a thousand dollars for uniforms and that amount may not be enough to allow all students to have more than three.  This leads to the student having to do laundry often which increases the family’s water bill and eventually leads to grumpiness throughout the whole family.  An increase in water bills also hurt the school because the family will have to start worrying about the huge amount of money that they have to pay for their child or children to go there.  I assume that if we got uniforms the student population would decrease, only due to family reasons, but because the student just doesn’t like the fact that he or she has to wear a uniform and may want to transfer to a different school because their dress code is more lenient.  The fact that S.I.S does not have uniforms helps the school itself, and the students that go there.
            Imagine when you were a kid, or even if you are a kid ask yourself this.  Would you want to wear a uniform that looks the same as all the other genders of your school?  Most people would say no and the people that would say yes are probably insecure about their image, or do not want to spend money on a uniform.  If you think a uniform costs too much to buy, you should not be attending a school that has a high tuition fee.  If you are not able to afford a uniform, you should not be able to attend the school.  However, I can believe that most of you would not approve of uniforms.
          Uniforms are not only a hassle to wash, but a boring looking uniform.  I have never seen a uniform that I would actually want to wear.  All the uniforms are grey and similar.  If our school got uniforms, people would view it as much more boring and lacking school spirit.  Forcing students to wear uniforms makes your school seem like a jail.  If we had uniforms and people visited our school, they would look at it as boring and their child would not want to go there.
          The topic today is very easy to answer and I can see that our whole class says no to school uniforms.  They are boring, a hassle, disliked by most people, and waste peoples time, money, and water supply.  No one I know wants a uniform for school and those who have uniforms, from different schools, dislike them and wish that they could go to S.I.S, the school of free dress.  Here, we are able to express ourselves through dress, and we can give our school the expression of a happy, safe, and free place.