School Uniforms

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>Hi everyone!</p>

<p>Some high schools out there require you to wear uniforms to school. A lot of people hate it, some people like it. I personally like it.</p>

<p>What about you guys? Does your school require you to wear uniforms? Do you guys like uniform policies? And feel free to list the clothes that you have to wear (ex. White collar shirt and Khaki pants or something).</p>

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<p>My school doesn’t require uniforms (thank goodness).</p>

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<p>Love it, so much less effort than choosing your own clothes.
Have to wear:
striped navy and white blouse
navy blazer with school badge
specificly pleated navy skirt
navy jumper in the winter, can be any
all tights and socks to be navy, grey or black</p>

<p>Most schools here require white shirt, any black pants/skirt, school blazer
I think my mum had one of the worst uniforms: gray and yellow blazers and fully pleated skirts</p>

<p>By the way, almost all schools here require uniform until the last two years of high school, but some schools still require it then</p>

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<p>I go to public school so we have a dress code, but not a uniform. It is fairly relaxed, skirts/shirts must be fingertip length, shoulders must be covered, shoes must have a back and no clothing with offensive messages. I like it, it is practical, that being said nobody really follows it when it is warm out.</p>

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<p>We have to wear uniforms at the high school I attend. We have to wear either a red, black, or white polo type shirt. Guys have to wear khaki shorts or slacks, and girls have to wear either khaki or plaid skirts. Our shirts have to be tucked in, and guys are required to wear belts. Personally, I don’t like it, but some people at my school like not having to pick out their clothes.</p>

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<p>My school doesn’t, but the dress code is so strict that i’d prefer to just have a uniform.</p>

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<p>There’s a dress code, but the staff doesn’t really care if you break it unless it’s really ridiculous.
Thank god. The school uniforms at the private school I used to go to was tragic.</p>

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<p>No uniform, but our dress code is ridiculously strict… all shorts/skirts must be knee-length, no headbands (you know, the one girls wear… it doesn’t make any sense!), etc. I’m not the type to break the dress code, but at our school, the teachers are like trained in identifying dress code violations or something. In spring/summer, there’s always 100+ kids down at the nurse’s office for breaking the dress code.</p>

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<p>mine doesn’t, but it used to. I really loved it. makes life so much simpler. as long as it’s comfy. I hated one of my old uniforms (I don’t think it was sized right…).</p>

<p>I wish my school now had uniforms</p>

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<p>No uniforms, for which I’m extremely glad. I could NOT deal with it. I like the idea of being able to express yourself. The dress code was very loosely enforced as well.</p>

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<p>My school is public, and we do have uniform but it’s only enforced to a certain extent.
Our uniform consists of:
Gold,Navy Blue, Forest Green and White polos(or shirts with collars)
Jeans/denim shorts, khaki pants or shorts, and navy blue pants or shorts.
That’s the “official” uniform. Most of us can get away with wearing any shade of yellow, most shades of blue, sometimes grey or black and an assortment of other stuff.
The pants too, we get away with grey, black, white. It just depends on the day, how noticeable you are, who your teachers are, and how the deans moods are that day.</p>

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<p>We have no uniforms and a lax dress code that’s never enforced. I don’t want uniforms at all, but I do wish they’d enforce the dress code more. I am sick of walking behind certain girls up the stairs and getting a face-full of ass. Ugh.</p>

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<p>Every year in english, this is always a topic as an example for something. None of the popular public schools in my area require uniforms. People always argue that ‘its so easy to pick out clothes in the morning’, ‘so much less to worry about’, ‘low income families wont be alienated as much’, etc. I really just dont see the argument. I would much rather have the ability it choose my own clothes. Especially since ever since i was little I had a thing with fabrics–I didnt wear jeans until I was in sixth grade (i refused to wear them before then) and I get hot really easily so even in cotton shorts and a thin t-shirt I still get hot easily. Being forced to wear something that I dont feel comfortable in would be terrible. Not to say uniforms are uncomfortable, but I have a picky taste in what is comfortable in general.</p>

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<p>My school’s dress code is collar everyday. It sucks. No girls follow it…I wish we’d have a uniform instead…preppy schoolgirl clothes are so cute!</p>

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<p>@teaspoons that’s cool for people like you, but I have a really awful dress sense and get barey any money for clothes. Also my mum won’t let me wear anything designer labelled (bascically Abercrombie, Jack Wills etc) and that’s all anyone wears outside school, so I would be alienated.</p>

<p>My uniform, although it isn’t a great picture:
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<p>■■■■ I couldn’t wear jeans until like 7th grade
teaspoons and I are long lost twins</p>

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<p>how I miss the UK :(</p>

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<p>I used to have to wear a uniform. We had to wear these polo t-shirts with our school logo on them and khakis and on Thursdays when we had chapel we had to wear a long sleeve white shirt with a tie, long khaki pants, and nice shoes. I hated it while I was there but looking back on it, I don’t think it was that bad. You always knew what you were gonna wear. At the end of senior year, seniors could wear anything and it got kind of annoying cuz I had to think about something new to wear everyday</p>

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<p>My school has uniforms that change with the seasons. I DESPISE the winter/spring one, but the fall/summer uniform is fantastic. I guess it’s not too bad when I stumble out of bed at 5 am to grab my clothes with my eyes drooping shut and not have to worry about what to wear lol. I think if the summer one was all year round, I’d like it better than wearing whatever you want.</p>

<p>Winter:
ITCHY ITCHY ITCHY green/black school skirt
Skin tone pantyhose or black knee high socks
White or blue school button down shirt tucked in
Black ballet flats
Optional: school sweater or cardigan</p>

<p>Summer:
Blue lightweight school skirt
White school polo (really soft ^_^)
Skin toned pantyhose or white knee highs
Black ballet flats</p>

<p>Special occasions: Black school blazer.</p>

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<p>I had to wear uniforms in middle school, and I understand why. (It was the bad side of the city. Gangs and stuff.) But, they didn’t do much to keep anyone in line, and if you lived on that side, you obviously didn’t have money to waste. Uniforms are just spending extra money on clothes you won’t wear half as often as street clothes. I mean, yeah, they’re supposed to make you look nice. But, you can still customize them (to a limit, but enough) and enforcing the uniforms takes so much effort from teachers that they just eventually give up. Some people just can’t afford to keep buying extra clothes. I can see the point in private schools, but other than that they don’t do much.</p>