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This 8 page paper discusses the issue of school uniforms and some of the court cases that have been brought in regard to it. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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some of the court cases that have been brought in regard to this issue. It argues in favor of school uniforms. Overview The issue of school uniforms in general falls
in with a number of actions brought in regard to various putative First Amendment violations. They include not only matters pertaining to school uniforms, but clothing in general, hairstyles, t-shirts,
and offensive language. The controversy centers around whether or not its constitutional to dictate what type of clothing students wear to school, and opinions on that vary. Another part of
the debate centers on whether or not having students wear uniforms improves behavior. Here, anecdotal evidence seems to bear out the contention that students are better behaved when they wear
uniform clothing, but apparently no scientific studies have been done to back this up statistically. In fact, one study states flatly that there is no correlation between uniforms and performance,
behavior or any other variable: "Student uniform use was not significantly correlated with any of the school commitment variables such as absenteeism, behavior, or substance use (drugs). In addition, students
wearing uniforms did not appear to have any significantly different academic preparedness, proschool attitudes, or peer group structures with proschool attitudes than other students" (Brunsma and Rockquemore, 1998). However, the
authors found a strong relationship between the attitude of students peers towards preparedness, proschool attitudes and good behavior, and the effect of those peers attitudes on other students (Brunsma and
Rockquemore, 1998). Its no secret that a students peers have more effect on his behavior than anything else at this point in his life, so it makes sense that students
whose friends saw education as valuable would also value it. If their friends behaved well, they would too; and if their friends didnt do drugs, neither would they (Brunsma and
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