[CS-FSLUG] school dress code, was Re: OT: Don't Buy Harry Potter

[Ed Hurst]

 From the perspective of long research (not mine, but much wiser folks):

To uniform or not uniform must reflect the nature of the school. If you 
wish to encourage students to actually think and create, then you must 
avoid having a dress code beyond the simplest rules. Nor would you have 
tightly controlled scheduling, etc. Organization is generally the enemy 
of learning-as-discovery. This won't work unless you have a selective 
and small group.

If you can't afford to actually make education the number one priority, 
but feel socialization of a certain sort is a very critical issue, you 
are far better off separating sexes altogether, but mixing across age 
groups as much as possible. Then dress code enforcement becomes far less 
an issue. If you are going to have uniforms, you must be ruthless in 
enforcing down to the smallest detail, generally. This works better in 
large schools.

Just about everything is moderated by the culture and personality of the 
students as a whole, along with some other factors. If you could forbid 
all TV and movies from the student body, even in their own time, you'd 
save a lot of heartache on most issues. Cultural enclaves also suffer less.

-- 
Ed Hurst
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