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Originally posted by PhiPsiRuss
Success in school, and successful schools have little to do with dress code. Dress code is sometimes used to compensate for other problems by imposing an order. What makes for a successful learning environment is involved parents, and competent teachers. I'd rather put my children in a school that works and has almost no dress code, as compared to a school that is imposing a dress code to help fight deeper problems.
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I completely agree. Dress codes address the symptom instead of addressing the cause. From what I've seen, they very rarely make any significant changes in the school environment -- they just make a handful of the problems less obvious, but they're still going on there beneath the surface. If you've got a school where class distinction is an issue, uniforms are NOT going to change that one iota.
(This coming from a future educator who has done some reading on what makes schools successful -- and dress codes are never mentioned.
Not to mention the fact that chances are that you're not going to get improved results by making school LESS fun than kids already think it is!)