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

[Eduardo Sanchez]

OK, you sucked me up from my lurking to share some of my experiences. 
Let me brief to the point of staccato writing:

1. In my country, school uniforms are widespread. Only a few schools 
don't use them.

2. In a way, uniforms are expensive. Some schools use "specially 
branded" shirts, for example, that you can get only at school and of 
course at a premium price.

3. I hated uniforms when I was at school. I had to dress in extremely 
uncomfortable clothing and endure a classroom with ~30 fellow 
classmates, using just a single fan to fend off the temperature that 
ranged from 75-100 F on some days. Moreover, I was growing and 
changing, and I had to use that clothing even when it was physically 
uncomfortable.

4. However, in a way, uniforms are great equalizer. Otherwise, a girl 
could show up in plain clothes and another one in designer ones, and 
this could create undesirable differences of status.

5. And yes, as a boy that I was and as a man that I am, I must admit 
that you must be careful, because girl's uniforms tend to invite 
voyeurism. Again, be careful...

So, I would advocate uniforms; but uniforms that are plain, economical, 
and comfortable to wear, and out of practical concerns only. I cannot 
care less for any preparatory school be it Christian or not; and 
matters such as school pride seem to me like the stuff of Ecclesiastes 
1:2. School is a nursery, and a necessary (really?) evil in our world.

Well, this was my own personal viewpoint.

Blessings,

Eduardo




On Friday 03 March 2006 17.22, 'Mash wrote:
> Uniforms,
>
> It is about unity, being one, showing what you belong to, the school,
> school pride.
>
> Discrimination and oppression ?? That makes no sense.
>
> If you are in the school you abide by the school rules, the honor
> systems and the hierarchy. Wearing the uniform does not discriminate.
> That's on par with saying driving on the legally correct side of the
> road discriminates against those who would prefer not to. Its the
> rule set out by the school.
>
> And to be honest it just looks good !
>
> Maybe I am just biased towards uniforms as I know I hated "normal
> clothes" days as my family did not have much and so I would always be
> wearing the same old jeans every time and got teased no end because
> of them. Worse still, growing up in South Africa most of the African
> children would come in their school uniforms on those days as most
> had nothing in the way of  "normal clothes."
>
> Uniform in that manner prevents exclusion. Everyone is outwardly the
> same whatever background they are from.
>
> I have only ever heard one negative point about uniform I actually
> agreed on (partly.)
> That was of cost for the parents. But anyone who has a daughter would
> argue that buying a different outfit for each day of the week would
> outweigh uniforms ten fold.
>
>
> 'Mash
>
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Prof. Eduardo Sanchez
Asuncion, Paraguay, South America
http://shadow.sombragris.org
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