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The Pros and Cons of School Uniforms

4 Pages 994 Words July 2015

1. The first text “School Uniforms: Pros and Cons” is written by Ann Svensen in 2012. She wrote this article as the managing editor of the American website Family Education Network. The text gives two different views and opinions on whether or not children should wear school uniforms. Dr. Alan Hifler is a senior psychologist specialized in the Children’s and Adolescent Unit. In this text he argue on both sides. He says that if the school children wear uniforms, it will “eliminate competition pressure, and assaults perpetrated by older kids on younger kids for their possessions.” Besides for preventing bulling in the schools, it should also allow the children to concentrate and focus better, because they don’t have to think about, if it is the right clothes they are wearing that day, if it sits as it should, they will not be stressed out because of their manner of dressing. Dr. Alan Hifler also point out a downside to the school uniform. The children express themselves with their clothing. It is a part of the puberty. So when the children get older, they will look at the uniform with bitterness and come to hate it. But even if the students do not like the uniforms a student have expressed that “Uniforms make the school safer, but I don’t like them”.
The second text “School uniforms improves pupil’s behaviour both in and out of school” is an article written by a journalist named Laura Clarke. The article was published in the British newspaper The Daily Mail website on July 10, 2007.
In this text there is a positive view on school uniforms.
A study suggests that having school uniforms have improved pupils’ behaviour both inside and outside the school. There has been another research at Oxford Brookes University that teenagers took part in. And those teenagers said that the school uniform “acted as a social leveller and reduced the risk of children being picked on for wearing “weird” clothes”. Professor...

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