This is actually location dependant. Where I grew up, public schools do much better. Where is your source on the "overall" stat? I grew up hearing about how Catholic school sucked academically, so I'm a skeptic.

The decision to move to uniforms is open to any Ontario school council. It's just that Catholic highschools have been the first to do it.

AND on that note... all the boys in the Catholic system wear their uniform "hip hop style" anyways. There is no rule saying that the uniform has to fit. <- at least in Waterloo and anywhere else I've been.

I agree - the whole look is just stupid.

I also agree about if you're going to do uniforms, do them all the way. I was in private school for 4 years, the first 3 we had a dress code and the last year was uniforms, and I swore off khakis for about 10 years after I left...lol.

Kids are still going to make fun of something. With uniforms, it may not be Jenny's pair of jeans, but now they're probably going to make fun of something more permanent, like her looks or something physical.

Besides, now that they're not spending daddy's money on designer jeans, they have more money available to them for cigarettes and drugs.

With uniforms, it's often HOW one wears it...my school had cardigans for a couple of years, but anyone who wore them was teased endlessly (they were really big, almost blazer-like). They got rid of them because it was so unpopular.

I don't think you should use Catholic schools as a comparison. My brother's friend's father is a VP in a Catholic school and many catholic schools have serious problems. There is a lot of violence with in many catholic school. I agree with Russ. Uniforms often treat the symptoms of bigger problems rather than the cause.

When the teacher threw himself down the stairs (yes he did it to himself) and blamed the neo-nazi skin head at my school and a certain dress code came into effect. No docs or army boots with white or red laces. This doesn't solve anything. All it does is make the kids with these behaviours less visable. It doesn't help them see how misguided their views are.

Re: Should boys be allowed to wear hip hop clothes, a related thread
 

They should be able to wear them. Hip hop wear doesn't = Gang related wear. There are certain colors and numbers and that's about it. But it's dumb to me because if that be the case, everything a little boy wears would be restricted.

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