School Uniforms! YES OR NO? | British VS American
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- Mostly, everyone in the UK has to wear school uniforms whereas most public schools in the US is the opposite. LET'S DEBATE!
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Remember having non-uniform day and getting anxiety that it was just the whole school playing a trick on you and it was actually just normal uniform?
Ruby Brown same but without the anxiety attacks. I just got really stressed.
once I cried because I panicked weather it was non uniform day or not
I once went in with my uniform on on a non-uniform day.
No I was worried that people would jueje me
I went in on non uniform when it was a full uniform day
I live in the UK and I wouldn't really want to choose what to wear each day and be paranoid of judgement
MadMaster its actually not something to worry about, people aren’t actively searching for someone to bully, nobody wants to be there. If you have some bad outfits you might be teased by your friend but not likely to get bullied. (In my experience)
MadMaster oh...
In the United States you don’t really get bullied of what you dress
Also you can be really lazy and not do your hair and wear whatever you see
I like uniform so I don't have to pick outfits but it could be more relaxed rather than ties and stuff
Sebastian Moon you’re literally in the small percentage of people that never ever experienced anything to do with bullying over your clothes. so, yes there are people that will actively go out of their way to bullying others just for the sake of it. Many, many, many people would say the same smh 🤦🏻♀️
Goodluck with sixth form, it sucks, I've only had to choose my clothes for 2 days and I absolutely hate it
Every year 7s mum: “you’ll grow into it”
My mum saying that while picking a blazer with al Capone sized shoulders
So true
Omg 😂 honestly
Tru tho I just went into year 8 and my mum is still like that
My mum did that now it’s 7years later and I still don’t fit my kilt😂🙄
"I liked being able to express myself"
Also:
"I wore whatever my mom bought me"
K
everyone wearing the same thing looks so ugly
I never got to do expression with my choths that kind of makes me feel like l missed out lol
@@ifusubtomepewdiepiewillgiv1569 Everyone wearing the same thing prevents kids being bullied for what they wear lol
@@emmalynn877 Stupid excuse but okay. I get bullied either way
@@Mandylol90 But you don't get bullied for what you wear.
I couldn’t imagine the stress of having to choose an outfit everyday for school🥴
Ikr 😂, whenever I go out with friends I'm like wtf do I wear. Non uniform day was such a big deal, people would talk about it a week before
Honestly, you just throw on some clothes you find in your closet. It's the weekend, which you care about how you look
@Liana Johnson Same, my middle school had uniforms but I never wore them. I just wore pajamas or sweatpants with a T-shirt
@@gothictism then when I showed up in clothes everyone was like whaaa???? You own actual clothing? 😂
I have five-six outfits (maybe seven or eight if it's a fancy year) that I just cycle through those outfits every week for the most part because I'm lazy and sleep deprived
what would you do without blazer pockets! keys, money, phone, timetable, pens, everything man
Freddo - 20p Why don’t you get yourself a bag?
Lottie Rowan you’d obviously have a bag for books and stuff but are you really telling me you’re going to whip your bag out every time you need one of these things
Murali Desham in my school we have a planner, that has to be on our table, but we just get our pencil case and planner out and put them in our desk as soon as we get to our desk
EXACTLY. My blazer pocket always has snacks, keys, money, phone, pens, pencils, rulers, guitar picks, everything i get goes in there. When I'm not wearing uniform, i feel like i have no pockets or not enough space in them to put anything in
I dropped my phone and it cracked because I tried to put it in my blazer pocket but it turns out I wasn’t wearing it
In the wise words of my mum: “are you going to school or a fashion show” 😂🤷🏽♀️
Yessss ikr
What side is that Comment in favor of? 😅
The one ehere everyone looks the same, or the one where individual choices are allowed? 😅
Uniform for me
Fashion show... every day
My mum is a teacher, and she told me a very interesting point about school uniform here in England.
Giving kids a uniform and enforcing it so strictly, gives kids something easy and trivial to rebel against, rather than doing something which could actually be serious
I have literally never heard this argument. 👍
Interesting. 😮
My blazer is covered in paint lol
That's what happens when you take GCSE art
This is so true. I liked it though. Kinda felt like some sort of badge of honour lol
Just doesn’t wash out either😂
Every fuckin shirt
Grot Bag we did have aprons but no one ever wore them
Omg same it’s the struggles😂
Girls in the UK only get detentions for rolling up their skirts, let’s be honest 😂
A Floating Pineapple i don’t even roll my skirt and get detentions for the skirt they MADE me buy 😭😭
I've never gotten a detention for my skirt but I roll it up twice because otherwise I look like a washerwoman 😂
No there is a lot more reasons e.g. for homework issues and forgetting to bring books in and forgetting pencil cases and for talking too much and for not participating in class and for loosing your tie and 'being rude' and getting 'bad marks' and the teachers hate people
I rest my case.
Or am I just a 'bad kid'
OH MY GOD YES! Although I don't roll my skirt I don't know why girls need to at my school
Yeah, no. I only got detention for forgetting my P.E shirt. Also my school have these types of skirts were you can just tighten the sides.
In Finland we don't have school uniforms, but I never really care about being judged for what I'm wearing. Judging someone for the clothing they wear is the shallowest thing I can imagine.
Yeah, well honestly england is hell for stuff like that
I went to schools in sweden. I and others were bullied for what we could not afford to wear. Sports and ski strips was one of the worst moments. We even ran out of school sometimes to avoid the horrible clothing moments. And in the mornings it took a lot of time to pick clothes. My parents could never afford me to choose what to wear and the wealthy kids in school always gained more popularity from other kids and even adults. Also in sweden different schools have different status. I wish we could have school uniforms in sweden and uniforms for the teachers. Some teachers even dress very inappropriate, dragning teens attention to wrong things.
Clothes judging is the stupidest excuse I've ever heard. We wore whatever shoes we wanted in my public school with our school shorts or black shorts or black.long pants and school polo and no one gave a shit if you had converse vans nikes addidas air jordans or Doc martens. No one cares. Schools should only have uniforms for formal ceremonies and sport
Problem is in countries with really diverse people and income. Think of students whose parent cant even afford shoes. Those students would wear the same clothes for two or three days.
@@Jo_Wardy hmm in another comment section you mentioned you went to a private school did you not.
And if you can afford to wear Converse, Adidas, Nike or Docs you are rich and privileged no one will bully you. There are children who cannot afford those brands, or any brand for that matter and can only buy the cheapest shoes available in Asda that cost £10 it's those kids that get bullied. School uniforms take away that clear distinction in status because you all have to wear black shoes with no embellishments. Wheter you spend £10 or £100 on a pair of black shoes, it's a pair of black shoes, it won't stand out like a sore thumb.
I could never imagine going to school in my normal clothes that would be so weird
Did you not gave non uniform day
Opposite for me.
I'm from America and honestly it isn't that stressful or weird. For me wearing school uniforms everyday would be really wacky.
Opposite for me
@@coastalbeaches7181 yup
Tbh I like waking up in the morning and just being able to just grab my uniform that’s just there bc I just don’t need to bother with my lazy ass to have to choose actual clothes.
That paragraph kind of doesn’t make sense when I read it back
Mazz Shai it makes sense enough for 18 of us to understand it :)
When I was still in school i used to leave my uniform neatly on my desk chair so i could get up with like 30 minutes eat breakfast (sneakily put on makeup against uniform policy) do my hair and rub out the door. They're so convenient i kind of miss it
Mazz Shai you dumb you can pick your cloths at night before you sleep so you will know what to wear or just choose random clothes...
Evan lazy people can do that. Just saying if you can’t choose your own clothes in the morning🤦♂️
That’s just sad
@@kthevsamig4958 lmao obviously you're idea of lazy is different from ours... there's another level of lazy you don't know about. i'm deffo to lazy to pick clothes bc my wardrobe is messy af and if i wear smth random i'd feel too insecure and just compare myself to everyone so I'd rather wear an uniform
Marquez 303 b
Tbh it just gets to a point where everyone would start hating non-school uniform day because we already wore all our best outfits.
That’s so true
yess everyone started hating it at my school
We were always excited about ours. And I remember having many one year because many 6th formers doing Welsh Baccaloriate decided to do it for charity.
Cecilia
We’d just come in onesies lol.
Non uniform was like another uniform:
Jeans and t-shirt
Pro uniform it’s easy and not stressful if I want to express my self I post on Instagram 😭
Non uniform days are so stressful
Same I’m pro uniform !
im so glad for wearing uniform:
1. You get less judged for wearing certain amount of clothing
2. everyone is more equal
3. Just waking up and wearing a uniform than choosing what to wear
4. less dress codes
5. blazers are uncomfortable but lets be real they have so many pockets and u dont need to go to your bag and get everything out.
6. Cheaper in the long run
Plus they are stylish ( to me I love school uniforms )
No. Uniforms are expensive I know I went to an Aussie private school that needed 3 bloody polo shirts and two button shirts short and long sleeve. And formal hat wtf. And shorts and long pants and brown shoes and brown belt. And school socks it was madness even Hair was a problem 🙄 I was like fuck this. I ain't cutting my hair.
@@Jo_Wardy uniforms are pretty expensive especially seeing how kids are growing, but I still think it’s worth it
@@cez_is_typing I don't think it's worth it. Maybe if it was a strict set of rules as a dress code like presentable pants shorts skirts tshirts polo button ups hoodies etc. Like that'd be better. Like still whatever we want just strict rules
@@Jo_Wardy huh, i only have 3 long sleeve shirts, two trousers, black school shoes and blazers
Didn't realize how small the amount of clothes I had was until I left school😂
Phoenix what about holidays?
Lit
My school has school hoodies and jumpers with polo shirts trousers(aka probably wearing black skinny jeans for most of the girls) and used to wear any type of black school shoes or pumps which could be vans but now we have to wear proper black school shoes because everyone just wore black trainers (high school UK)
YES!! I had my favourite clothes that I would wear over and over but leaving school I realised how little range I actually had
Truee
I think UK uniform is good,but please I BEG U JUST MAKE IT MORE COMFORTABLE! !!😢
Whenever the school change the uniform they never ask for feedback so we all end up in uncomfortable uniform and the school care more about skirts than they do about bullying
@@chrispy8932 ikr it is so irritating
ShadowRainbowGirl Gamerstar my school used to ask for feedback then ignore us all😂
Its comfortable enough
My uniform is super comfy tbh
People who wear a uniform express themselves in every other way that isn’t what clothes are on their back! For example the backpack you have, and how you decorate it with pins if you choose so, stuff in your hair, decorating your planner. Also in all high schools that I have friends at, you need to bring your own trainers for PE, so there’s one way you can express yourself *cough *cough I mean flaunt your family’s wealth with the latest designer trainers
Even with the uniform itself, at my school at least, you can have different skirt lengths and styles, wear a dress (this is only something girls would do though). There was one girl in my secondary school who wore a black beret lol. And different makeup styles. My friend really expressed herself with her hair, she always had it in cool plaited styles.
it's still a violation of human rights
I was always explained to by teachers that uniform is a great thing for every child because you’re less likely to be bullied on your clothing because you’re all wearing the same thing🤷🏻♀️ and that was why dress down days were never regular and just on days like red nose days or the occasional dress down Friday. Completely agree with this point so...
then they'll just find something worse to bully you on..like your physical appearance hair, face pimples weight etc lol..you can still look fat in a school uniform lol
Idk if this is just Northern Ireland/Ireland but nobody gets bullied here in schools. We are idk...nicer to each other? We have uniforms but nobody makes fun of everyone else. It just doesn't happen.
@The secular humanist I think you can't tell immediately, by the time you figure things out you'll probably have made friends with a mix of people anyway, I think it helps to not be able to judge as quickly because it forces you to judge people more from their character, you cant bully the poor kid when youve already decided he's a funny guy. Barring physical looks, which are unavoidable.
In my secondary school we have to wear a specific uniform for p.e.
Yeah, same.
Emma Grace same
Same. Dark blue and lime green
Emma Grace - we had to do that in my secondary school too
Same
i don’t particularly like my school uniform but every single person wears it so it’s fine, i can’t imagine having to pick out an outfit every morning so i’m glad i can just reach for the same uniform every day. also we have mufti days and people always judge each other’s clothes so i wouldn’t want that every day
yeah same
Yeah I hate shopping and we have a strict dress code. I go to a catholic school. On Friday at school we could dress in normal clothes if we had a piece of paper they gave you for being good and if you show your shoulder they treat you like you committed murder.
I always hear that with people that went to a school with uniforms. But all the schools I’ve gone to, nobody cares lol. Most of the time we just throw together something and walk out the door. Sometimes we’d go in just pajama pants and a hoody or T-shirt instead if we’re too lazy.
@@cassierawr594 Yeah same, I imagine people pay more attention to clothing when you are usually wearing uniforms
I would argue that you wouldnt have that every day if you never wore a uniform. Like since it's a rare occurrence for you guys then everyone is like wondering what each other will wear. But here every day you wear what you want and I haven't really seen bullying about clothes because people just kinda hang out with people like themselves you normally dress similarly, or at least dont care how they dress
“If there’s a school uniform then its easier to spot a school intruder”
Meanwhile at Stoke High School in Ipswich England
Tia Downes they told us the same thing except my school was closer to Ipswich Australia
Also most school's that have uniforms have a second hand shop to help those who are not able to afford new blazers and ties. (Which is the icon of the uniform.)
I live in the UK and I really like the school uniforms since everyone is the same. Whenever we have non-uniform day, I always feel insecure about what people think of what I'm wearing. I'm definitely pro uniform.
Yeah, sometimes I just wear uniform anyways just because you have to pay and I don't want people to judge me for what i wear
but don't you think that maybe its not such a good thing that everyones the same, because its just not true and I find it boring, and it doesn't really prepare you for real life, where we should all be able to be comfortable in what we choose to wear.
@@chloejessup1566 well see we didn't find it boring because it was a routine set since we were very young, uniform was the norm. And also it's not like we were wearing uniform for the whole of our education, once you reach sixth form, which is when you're 16, you don't have uniform
@@notaseat5934 fair enough but I simply don't see the point of it, or at least not to the extent that it is often enforced.
@@chloejessup1566 I guess if you don't grow up with it, it's not the norm and would feel foreign to you. That's ok, that's just how you were brought up and I don't expect you to fully understand what it's like
I loved school uniform tbh I hated non school uniform day, everyone judging you on what you were wearing, gave me mad anxiety. I just ended up wearing uniform on non school uniform day
The ledgend 27 I don't mean to be mean, but wouldn't you still be judged by wearing a uniform on non uniform day?
@@taniamanik2012 sometimes but it's not as bad, no one notices.
It happens because you all dressed the same. Can't judge somebody who's wearing the same thing as you
@@therealyoda2483 exactly that's why I like it😀
@@pinklemonade6597 I don't think you understand my point
In my experience, watching friends who went to Catholic school, and also teaching for a year in Japan, everyone who wore a uniform had a way to show their individual look. It doesn't stop you from expressing yourself. It doesn't make you a cookie-cutter human. I do think it's a good way to help those who can't afford "cool" clothes, and keep a sense of belonging and inclusion, or school spirit. I never had to wear a uniform myself.
The arguments I used to have, with my mother, about what I wanted to wear for school, disappeared at secondary school.
The kids who had fewer clothes were noticeable in primary school, as were the rich kids. This 'classism' disappeared, too.
Most schools have a uniform which can be picked up very cheaply, from a supermarket.
Uniforms get you ready, psychologically, to work; they're cheap; no-one is judging you, for what you're wearing and they cause less friction between kids and parents.
Cheap? My uniform was fucking expensive! Mine wasn't available at supermarkets.
Cheap? From supermarkets? My preschool (yes we had uniform) had special uniform that could only be bought from the school. My primary school (England) used to have just grey bottoms (practically anything, I just wore felt trousers!), now they have blue shirts that have the school name on the back (weird and ugly). The PE kit used to just be a blue polo and blue shorts now it’s special and only can be bought from an expensive uniform shop. My secondary school is private but the uniform is so expensive. Only from one shop and over £100 for just the blazer. It’s comfortable though. Pro-uniform though. It makes my life easier as I can just have a few shirts, a blazer and a skirt and 3 t-shirts, a few trousers and that be my wardrobe whereas if I had to wear non-uniform I would be so lost about what to wear.
@@issie6374 Ha! I went to an old grammar school where you had to get your blazer from a specific tailor. It was a grey blazer from 1st form to 5th form (with blue piping) and then a black blazer in 6th form.
No-one in 1st form had a blazer which was anything but three sizes too big and by the time they were in 5th form, the sleeves were half way up their arms! It was hilarious! Mine fitted comfortably from the end of second year, as I stopped growing when I was 13.
My four brothers shared 2 grey blazers and 2 black blazers, as they progressed through the school. My fourth brother looked like an ink-spotted rag-bag! Not that he cared one jot, bless him. So, I got new blazers (I'm the youngest). Only my oldest brother and I ever got anything new.
By and large, though, in most schools, you can get away with generic, cheap uniforms.
@The secular humanist School uniforms 'rarely' cost more than £50. If you think that a £250-£300 price tag occurs 'very often', you haven't got very strong links with the real world.
Shoes cost money for everyone - even 'lesser mortals' attending comprehensive schools have feet - so, scratch that one from your total.
If you're sending your child to a school where the uniform costs £250-£300, you're obviously wealthy and/or worried that your child isn't equipped to 'make it' in the comprehensive system.
@@graceygrumble i go to a public secondary school and my whole school uniform costs £80
I'm British and I'm pro uniform because on Mufti day or non uniform day I feel insecure about everything I wear and Luke is right. British kids have enough stress without the stress of choosing shit to wear each day. Even the weekends are kinda stressful choosing what to wear.
I was the same but i also feel like the stress/care that goes into mufti days is because it only happens once every so often so you want to look your best, but i started at sixth form this year where we dont have to wear uniform and honestly noone actually cares what you look like after the first week as long as you look decent cause they have bigger things to worry about than clothes
Harriet O'keefe exactly the same in the old school I used to go to that didn't have uniform. because kids were so used to wearing normal clothes everyday, no one dressed up, because why waste all your nice clothes on just going to school, but in my new school on non uniform day it's one of the only days you get to wear whatever you want and what you wear will be kind of like a first impression, and a day for people to judge you on what your usual choice of clothes is.
I love being able to choose my own clothing. I can wear shirts from musicals that I love or bands. I can make friends. Yes, having to choose what you wear can be stressful for some students, but it really depends on the kind of person. I mostly wear the same thing (a hoodie, t-shirt, and jeans) every day so it isn’t a hassle.
wearing my normal clothes around people every day kind of helped me become less insecure though, so i think doing it every day helped me in that way. although i do see the appeal of uniforms
You wouldn't judge somebody wearing the same clothes as you. Then when the day comes when people are wearing different clothes, you're going to be judged
i had a uniform and i just expressed myself through my school bag🤷🏼♀️
I used my hair and glasses
Oh and decorating my school diary
We can’t do either of those things. We have to have a black bag and if we doodle on our planner we have to buy a new one for £3. My school isn’t fair at all!
And pencil case, stuff in hair etc
Its pretty hard at my school since everyone either wears a nike, adidas, ellese, or hype bag
@@angelp8235 That's sad...
school uniforms make everyone equal 🤷♀️
But then people stop paying attention to your clothes and to your figure, which already looks worse becuase of said uniform.
I know from experience
@@phoenixlikesketchup273 ... exactly!
This actually shows one of the biggest problems I have with uniforms. Saying that school uniforms makes people equal implies that how equal people are is dependent on what clothes you wear. People are equal even if you wear something different. Your value as a person is not dependent on what clothes you wear!
At different schools I went to (in the US vs in Australia) I sometimes had no uniform and sometimes had one. I'm actually pretty ambivalent, but I think I lean in favor of school uniforms just because everyone wearing the same thing lessened my insecurity that what I was wearing wasn't "cool enough"
Idk what I'd do without uniform cause I have no fashion sense whatsoever XD
I don't even own enough clothes to have a different outfit each day 😂
Same 😂
Lol same
Me neither. I normally pick up two things randomly in the hope that they will match each other and the weather outside.
Same my friends always point it out
I was at a school with uniform for about 5 years and then one without. While wearing uniform, I hated it but when I switched to the school not requiring uniforms, I gained a newly found appreciation for uniforms. It took too much effort to plan my outfits every night. Some kids would be judged over their clothes and all kids were always talking about who's wearing what brand and who has what shoes and what shirts....it was somewhat a judgemental environment. I think uniforms minimize things like that
Amen
I had a similar experience (US private to public). Another thing I wanted to add was comfortability. When I taught at a charter school even the teachers had to wear a uniform on trip days... and I found it so uncomfortable. I was always tugging at it, and I honestly couldn't focus because of how uncomfortable I felt. I think the big difference between my early and later uniform experiences were the options. In elementary school I know I liked the dress option, so that's what I wore; at the charter school pants were the only option, which was really difficult for me since most pants irritate a scar I have on one of my knees.
I too wore both and man uniforms are great
As someone who has also has had both, and also has a taste in fashion, uniforms are the way to go. I honestly found a school dress code much more burdensome than uniforms, although to be frank, the uniforms at the school I went to were disgustingly ugly.
and people who wear the same clothes..
Here in the Caribbean because we were under the British for some time we adopted the wearing of school uniforms. The only exception would be at university level we get to wear whatever we want, it's like spreading our wings for the first time, getting to Express yourself, finally. But I would say school uniforms are way better, less hassle 😊 5 shirts and 2 skirts and we're good to go for the girls
I’d love to go to a school without uniform . On the last day we have to pay to wear our own clothes 😭😭😭
We had do donate like 1 pound to wear our own clothes, but I always sneaked pass the teacher (I'm very short). 😉.
You're not really paying, it's a donation to charity. Whenever we forgot it was an own clothes day we still normally ended up donating.
@@justanotherglorpsdaymornin5097 my dream is to one day run a school and yes my school will have a uniform. I shall definitely incorporate that the money will go to charity and helping our local community.
@@nerdgeekcosplay909 you are cruel
@@artificialize922 No, he’s not.
You'd be lucky if my blazer got washed each term 😂😂
Omgggg how could u do that
Takes too long to dry so i only wash it if it really needs it 😂
i’ve not washed my blazer since school started after summer.😔
Omg how I wash mine every weekend
XXXJASMINE yeah same
As a girl in secondary school, I love my uniform. It's not ugly, it's comfy, I spend less time in the morning. I actually don't like non-school uniform day because I don't own any branded clothes like adidas or Nike and everyone else does. I dunno, I would hate if I didn't have a uniform 😂
HeyItsTegan you’re weird
I’m the same
I think we should be able to wear whatever shoes we want, and have the option to wear the blazer but I don’t mind it myself
I take longer to get ready in my uniform than I do when we have non-uniform day.
teganthetankengine Before secondary school I loved the look of the blazer and I was excited to wear it. I love them
okay but imagine trying to revise for your whole month of GCSEs but all you can think about is what you're going to wear tomorrow.
this isn’t what happens in non-uniformed schools lol
that never Happens
this is the problem, people who've worn school uniforms all their life stress over clothing when they finally get the chance to wear what they want.
I’m from Finland and we don’t have uniforms But when I was younger I wished that we had because I saw all the british movies and thought they were so cool 🔥😂
Same! I am from Norway, and every time I saw a british movie I really wanted to wear school uniforms. I still want to have a uniform, but as much. I just think it would be easier to have a school uniform
Also schools are legally allowed to punish you for what you do out of school if you’re wearing their uniform.
Is that true?
@@Caitluz Of course! You're representing the school.
I had no problem with it I felt it reinforced responsibility for students you represent the school act accordingly. Later in life, you will work for a shop or company and will have to act responsibly as you represent it as an employee
To be fair you have to be either doing something stupid or aggressively bullying someone.
Mitch Unicorn
One kid got hit by a car and got a month of detentions lol.
I used to hate school uniforms, but now I prefer them because some people can't afford certain brands. Also people with different styles cant be made fun of. Also dress codes seem terrible.
School uniform probably costs more money for me than what I wear on the weekends😂😂😂
Aurora Obsidian um it is based on men not being able to control them selves
In my jr year of high school half the grade got sent home for wearing leggings because a teacher saw some dude looking at a girls ass
Aurora Obsidian it is to not “distract” the people of the other sex
Oh is my shoulder going to turn someone on
uniforms are not cheap whatsoever.
in the uk we still have dress code on day we wear normal clothes and we have a dress code in school uniform also
I’m from England and in school we wear uniform for lessons and uniforms for PE (gym) which is just a black top and black shorts with the school crest embroider in them.!!
our ones is a custom white top with a design and and a black shorts. we also have a house top for sports events. we also have a separate games kit, which includes blue yellow striped rugby shorts
If we didn’t have uniform in the uk I wouldn’t worry what to wear idk why so many people keep saying that I just put on whatever shit I see
Literally it’s fuckin clothes who gives a shit
People ain’t say shit to people in parks n stuff so why would they in school?? 😂
I think for kids who can't afford the best or coolest clothing a school uniform is a great thing - it makes everyone feel a little more equal! I do love the idea of kids being able to express themselves through their outfits though!
Smile with Mel but uniforms are expensive af
Smile with Mel apart from UK where the uniform is like 300 quid
Smile with Mel So right. Who needs the stress? It's nice at college and uni when you're working age and more mature, and you can use clothing to make new friends.
KaYoS Blood not all uniforms. Mine is a polo, jumper, pants and black flat shoes. TBH you don't even need the jumper.
KaYoS Blood Then take that out on the school. They cut a profit from it. The school dont have your interests at heart when it comes to uniform. My school offered a very affordable uniform, and it cost a tiny fraction of your annual clothing budget.
I agree with Luke, wearing a uniform it was great to not have to think about what to wear every day (apart from mufti day lol). Esp. being a girl (just speaking for myself, not generalising) it's harder to decide what to wear and have to wear something different every day. I hated wearing uniform at the time (mostly bc I had to iron it every single week and it took forever, and bc it wasn't the most attractive/comfortable) but looking back I'm glad it was that way.
Also, once we get to sixth form we were allowed to wear whatever we wanted, so we still got a chance to 'express' ourselves, if that makes sense. And when I did go to 6th form it did take me slightly longer to get ready bc of deciding what to wear.
:) - I love these british vs. american debates tho! keep 'em coming!
GirlEnchanted in our primary school the only days we didn't wear the school uniform were either a day like comic relief or something along those lines or world book day
I'm from Michigan, and I went to a public school which are schools that don't have uniforms. You could tell from the people who tried to look nice vs me (and other people) who didn't care what we wore. Like I dressed up every day of High School for my freshmen year (1st year of HS) and after the 1st semester I realized that I hated it. I just threw on whatever was clean after that. I wanted to feel comfy in the things I chose to ware. I never got bullied for it, I figured that after 4 more years of this BS I would never see the majority of the people I graduated with anyway. I disliked most of them and I haven't seen a lot of them around bc most of us went to different colleges. So why would I care what I looked like to people who I hope never to see again.
Yeah, I understand but my friend in America felt self conscious because people would tease her about the way she looked in the uniform since third grade. Also, uniforms don’t always look good on everyone. Like if you chose your own clothes you can chose what makes you confident.
Colette Maddy So she wore uniform in America?
I’m still going to secondary school now and we have to wear the Blazer with the school logo on it. We also have clip on ties because people would get strangled and stuff. Also because I’m a girl we used to have to not wear ties, but because some of the girls in year 9 and 10 would open the top 3 buttons we now have to and get detentions if we don’t.
I’ve been at my secondary school for 3 years and I’ve had a total of 1 non uniform day in 3 years
The reason of school uniform is reduce bullying and stress as much as possible and it does work
*Take the students freedom of dress How they want
How does it reduce bullying? You are basically blaming the victim for the bullying. A bully is a bully, that's the problem, not the victim.
@@normal7877 the bully is still the reason for the bullying but it not making students where a school uniforms makes for one more element in which an individual can stand out which increases the risk of them being targeted by a bully
@@anonymous-iu4th It doesn't do any of that. Kids in my school still get bullied for their uniform. It's off color as the poorer people can't replace it. I never had this problem without uniforms. Instead of targeting one in a million reasons for bullying, why don't we actually target the problem, which is the bully.
@@normal7877 well we can't exactly just pull kids out of education every time they do something nasty can we? So how would we do that?
In Australia it’s the same as the UK. But you have a formal uniform and a sports uniform, the sports uniform you only wear when you have PE. The only schools that I’ve seen not have to wear uniforms are special schools. At my school we had free dress days which happened once a term and we’re to raise money for a charity you just needed a gold coin donation ($1 or $2 coin).
surfie007 most schools in the UK have that too, it's just lukes I've heard of that doesn't have a p.e kit
I’m from Australia too and I’ve been to 5 schools and only one of them had a sports uniform (none had formal uniforms). The rest of them you just wore the everyday polo shirt and skirt (shorts in primary school) that had the school logo on them
surfie007 basically copying UK
So odd that you went to 5 schools (in Aus) with no formal uniform! I didn't even know they existed here tbh...What state(s) did you go to school in?
In the UK most schools have official pe kits with school logos and stuff
I liked having a uniform because it meant I didn't have to use my brain in the morning to decide what I'll wear
Fancy clothes nowadays:
Clothes from JD and Footasylum Nike stores etc.
our school got so fed up with the students who did their ties wrong that they got clip-on ties that couldn’t be altered.
In primary school I had no uniform, but in secondary I did. I personally prefer having a uniform because I am really self-conscious and dont want to stand out
Agree
I don't mind uniforms in the form of clothing, but I hate the schools that say you can't wear makeup or you can't dye your hair. I think that's limiting.
M M that's like my school
At my school, we're not allowed to dye our hair but I know at least two female teachers with pink hair
You can in high school though. At primary school I think it's quite fair for those years because it's years 4-11. That's too young for all those cosmetics. This is only my opinion though.
my school doesn't really care, i cut my hair short last year and then a month later or so I dyed it blue and purple, I didn't really think of what my school would say but when I went in everyone complimented me and I didn't get into trouble at all. It's the same with piercings, my school accepts them, The only thing they don't like is students coming in with makeup caked onto their faces.
M M I personally disagree. I know that not wearing makeup is pretty shit, but not dying hair is more about the appearance and reputation of the school. I personally attend a school with incredibly strict uniform regulations, and I find myself not even caring about dying my hair. It's a peculiar thing, wherein your lack of real life exposure to people with dyed hair just makes you feel pretty indifferent, and honestly I don't think me, or my friends, have ever really complained. It's just one of those things, you get used to it, and you find it's not a problem.
we aren’t even allowed to wear earrings or dye our hair
I went to an American public school system in a city that required uniforms. That extended to piercings, hair, etc.
I hated it. On top of having regular clothes already, you'd have to buy additional uniforms every year as the colors required would change and so where you used to just have a shirt that might fit for two years, you had to buy two separate shirts. You'd also have to buy a new belt if you grew as they were also required.
My family didn't have much money, so I always wished we were allowed to wear regular clothes. Of course, you could still wear the uniform polo and pants if you wanted, but having the freedom to wear regular clothes would've saved a lot of money. Not to mention time. We'd always go out a few times before school started to hunt for uniform approved clothes in the right colors, style, and fit for various sized kids in the family. Spending money on clothes we would only wear in school before changing into regular clothes at home.
People bullied people for other things. Getting rid of bullying over clothes doesn't do much but cause bullies to find other reasons to pick on people.
In college, I find it pretty simple to throw on clothes in the morning and it's a much faster process than the uniform because the uniform required extra parts that aren't required for college lile belts, tucking the shirt in, etc.
We also couldn't wear most common types of warmer clothes in the winter, so people would be written up all the time for having a hoodie or the wrong pockets or a logo that was too big when they're just wearing what they had available.
Plus, the school's very few uniforms for accidents and such were not guaranteed to even fit you.
It's so much simpler and cheaper now, going to college and wearing anything I want. I don't have to buy new clothes every year, I can wear most things within reason that I want, and nobody thinks you're about to shoot up the school for wearing a hoodie in the middle of winter.
Honestly I’d miss my blazer pockets lmao
In that sense a school uniform doesnt prepare women for everyday life at all. Most womens clothing doesnt have pockets or they are very small. So if you've lived with blazer pockets your entire school career, you will get shocked when you suddenly have to live with "real" clothes and a lot of bags, in which you will quickly lose all your stuff and men will compain every time you lose something 🙄
@@nadiar.4638 or you learn to sew pockets
@Hannah Bean09, same lmao. I can fit a woman's handbag contents in my blazer pockets.
@@nadiar.4638 why don’t you wear women’s suits then?
And then it would be non-school uniform, then you would realise you left everything in your pocket and you aren't ready for school😞😅
I think it's interesting to hear this from a guy's perspective. As someone who grew up in America, I always wished my school had a uniform because it would cut out the weird sexism of dress codes and also level the playing field. Girls spend a lot of time judging each other's outfits, from my experience, and I always wanted the lack of stress a uniform would bring!
I hate to say it but girls still judge each other on things like the length of skirts and make-up and the way they look in general
@@ivy6662 Yes to both of you! Personally, I feel it was bad enough how the girls with designer school trousers and rucksacks and did their hair and makeup (money) looked down on the frumpy kids with the cheap trousers and practical rucksacks - and that was *within* the parameters of the uniform. At least we were actually wearing the same outfit, at the end of the day. I would have hated it if there was more difference between us because they were wearing fashionable designer outfits. They would have been unbearable and those people weren't even that bad at my second school (it would have been horrendous at my first) but the social divide would have been. Honestly the pressure to wear different clothes every day in itself would have been tiring before even getting to coordinating an outfit. With uniforms you can just grab the same thing and no one will know.
My uniform was quite expensive but I found out I could donate it to new students who needed it but couldn’t afford it so all my uniform and PE kit went to this one boy and he found me during lunch (I was now in sixth form and didn’t have to wear Uniform) and gave me the biggest hug. He didn’t care it was a girls uniform. That the PE kit was made for girls (everything else was unisex). He now got to look like everyone else and didn’t have to explain why he was dressed different. It was really lovely
I hated my school uniform with a passion so much so I started wearing black jeans and trainers just to feel more damn comfortable in it. I did get into trouble on several occasions but in my defence I had a major and I mean major growth spurt. This spurt was so bad that where I use to by my school blazer and PE kit from they didn't stock and had to special order adult sizes for a 14 year old.
It also didn't help that my school was riddled with heating issues and so many windows! Wearing that blazer on a hot day then inside a classroom was just horrible. Oh and here's something fun, the windows couldn't be fully opened, they opened about four inches just enough to let in the tinest breeze in a class of thirty.
Its better to wear school uniforms so you dont get jealous of other people’s clothes or waste all of your money on the ‘trendy’ clothes.
Uniforms can also be really expensive though.
Once we had all the pe, rugby, and normal uniform, it added up to £480. It would now be more than half a grand. HALF A GRAND. That's more than all my other clothes put together.
Also a maximum hair length. They hate me I swear.
I feel like you could potentially express yourself more in your own cloths helping developing a sense of identity and expression
Honestly in US you can tell who a person is by how they dress. You got the jocks, the nerds, the goths, the hillbillies, the hood kids, the hispanics, rich kids ect.
I don't know how to dress outside of school because of the uniform. What's this 'business casual' you speak of? Should I wear a dress? Should I wear a full on blazer or suit? I don't think I have the clothes (or will to look for clothes) that are appropriate for the outside world since I don't really leave home for anything other than school.
I literally have a whole bunch of comfortable indoor clothes and I have 2 outfits that are suitable for going outside in. I don't go outside enough for anyone to notice they're the same outfits from the last solar eclipse.
Edit: This is my most liked comment. Thank you all so much.
What I quite like is suits for sixth form, because it’s kinda uniform but you get used to and comfortable with smart clothing
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That's why I can't wait to get to 6th form. 2 years to go.
What is your uniform for sixth form? Because mine is just businessy, it really isn’t very specific they say dress like you are going to an interview but obviously by the end of the year its more ignored
Holly G in my sixth form, it's non school uniform
I am the same lol!
I definitely prefer school uniforms and I feel like there is still ways for you to express yourself. Personally, in the uk at my school, children wear like badges of any kind over your blazer lapels. ( like they dont have to be educational or like badges that are awarded.) You could also out like badges on your backpack.
I think that having a uniform is good but that students who do have a uniform should be given more freedom and choice when it comes to their uniform. For example, at my school, you can get detention for forgetting your tie or having the wrong coloured socks, which, in my opinion is more distracting because teachers are constantly having to check whether students are following the rules and students are often worried about accidentally breaking them and ending up in detention.
can i say this makes me realize how much more sense dressing for university in america vs the uk is! i'm from america, and we literally wear t-shirts, sweatpants, leggings, anything comfortable and rarely will you see a put together outfit for class. but after studying abroad in england i quickly realized that is not the case there, which completely makes sense after everyone spent a lifetime of having to dress nice and professional for school! just a thought!
Girl, you clearly aren't from the west coast because it seems like everyone was very put together. It wasn't till I got to college that I saw people wore sweatpants and baggy shirts. I'm from LA and no one dares wears unflattering clothes to class.
I went to a private college and everyone dressed up in dresses and shit and sometimes heels
Susan Margrave I grew up about 30 min outside of LA and I don't think people cared as much as your making out to be. Hell I remember even seeing pj's in high school.
From what I've heard, that's often just america in general - it's not that uncommon to go buy groceries etc in sweatpants, whereas where I live (and in most other european countries), people dress up a little - wearing at least jeans or regular pants. Same goes with school - we don't have school uniforms, but are buying "nicer clothes" for it, because you're supposed to dress appropriately for it is an official institution. But then again, you can kinda wear whatever you want - school doesn't dictate what is and isn't okay, it's you or your parents who decide.
As an Aussie, school was always uniform - then at uni people would rock up in baggy t-shirts and thongs (flip flops). I think it just depends regardless of whether it's school, uni or work.
Didn’t realise some schools in England didn’t have a uniform for P.E! Mine does 🤦🏼♀️
Emily X ours do too, I don't wear it anymore cause I'm in sixth form but we got detentions if we didn't roll up in our pe uniform
We have one as well! But when I compete for the school we never wear it, like we're not allowed black shorts in pe as it's not school colours but when we compete none of us have ever worn navy.
We kind of have one where you have to wear only black and white but they’re not strict on it
So does mine . My school also has a skirt with our logo on because girls roll skirts up.
I have black shorts and a black & blue shirt with the school crest.
I went to 5 schools growing up, one had optional uniform, one had no uniform and 3 had uniform. The best situation was the optional uniform. Because most of us wore our school t-shirts and jeans. it reduced some of the things about dress codes, and inability to identify students but didn't have uncomfortable blazers or inability to express yourself. And the fact that we didn't have to wear uniform but most days would rock up in part of it any way I think speaks volumes about what the students felt like wearing. I think uniforms are good but definitely should be more casual then a lot are.
The price thing doesn't apply for high school- primary thing yeah but high school in year 7 it was like 200 quid
I love my school uniform. I look smart and I can wear cute badges on my blazer
Nicola Clarke you lucky my uniform school is the worst
Omg my tie was my go to place for pins.
I wish I could
My school uniform is so strict
we cant put anything on ours lol
I had 6 uniform 2 pe and 4 school I've been to 2 primary schools and 2 secondary schools so uniforms made me feel better about fitting in
Not having a uniform means I can pick stuff that makes me look good or stuff that I’m really proud of for putting together rather than a uniform that might look awful on me
Also, for thsi debate to hold any real ground, here should be a female on both sides, as males are relatively unaffected by the enforcement of school uniform/ dress code
Ah I love these British vs American videos! I have to wear a school uniform, which is fine until it gets to summer and it’s 30 degrees and there’s only one tiny fan that the teacher keeps to themselves 😭😂
Megan Mahoney i relate to this too much😂
My school do not know fans exists
30 degrees in summer really confused me for a second then I realized I'm the weird one over here in America using fahrenheit
30 degrees is pretty cold
It's a joke
Megan Mahoney this literally used to happen to me I hated it so much but I am glad I had to wear because I didn’t ruin all of my clothes and now that I have left school my style has changed so much and I don’t really care what anyone think of me and what I am wearing because I like and that is all that matters
As an American parent, it's more about freedom. Who decides? If parents vote to have a school uniform and what that uniform is, fine. If we want the local government to decide on a uniform, we might want to know.. Today, my daughters school decided to start enforcing dress code/school uniform. Why now? Why weren't we better informed? Now I have to go buy additional clothes? The original policy was vague. The new policy while clearer, totally caught me off guard. When did you decide this? Why weren't we notified in writing with a signature requirement earlier than today?
I live in Texas, and my middle school had a "Dress Code/School Uniform"
We had to wear solid colors of our school (Only 4 colors) and khakis or jeans, white socks, and then white or black shoes.
Anna White socks? Seriously? White socks, unless you're playing certain sports at the time, are a massive no no in England.
Im from the UK and I have a PE Kit with the school logo on... even those long socks had my schools name on.
JetSlinger7654 when I went to high school we had the same thing. Those socks were the death of me
JetSlinger7654 my school is the same
My school recently got a new 'reformed' PE Kit and it's hideous... all the year 7's have to wear it but luckily since i'm in yr 10 I don't have to get the new one
JetSlinger7654 my school had a rule that you could only wear things with the logo
JetSlinger7654 I use to get detention constantly for forgetting my PE socks
In my school we have a uniform for both PE and normal lessons. It cost a lot and there were certain shops that made the uniform for the school AND if you didn't wear the uniform from the shops, you got detention.
Same! And you also get the problem of "you'll grow into it" because our parents want it to last us the whole year (which is fair enough). I never grew into mine 😂
We have a uniform for both aswell all you need to do is buy a tie and a pe shirt it’s about £10 for all of them
Yay capitalism
I joke because it’s so painful (Figuratively and literally)
Same
Yeah. I go to one of the best schools in NI and our PE kit is made by Kukri (which is the brand the ulster rugby team and others use) so it costs around £70 by itself and the uniform costs around £200 for a skirt,tie,jumper and a blazer. To make it worse the PE uniform you can only get it at school or on the website and the normal uniform you can only get at 2 places
So funny. So many memories watching this! When you said how do you tell who was breaking the rules in the UK - we wore purple blazers and when someone broke the rules or didn’t want to do something we would shout PURPLE STONES and everyone would cover their heads with their blazers and run away!
i went to a charter school in the US so we had a basic uniform as in we had to buy a polo shirt from the school that had the school's colors and then any navy or khaki pants. And I agree with your friend's argument that it helps keep the students on a same level despite their financial background.
I think people who haven't grown up with school uniforms, they picture that they'll feel like their freedom is taken away... but seriously, i never felt like that, never even thought about it ~ you get used to it. and especially if every school around you has the same idea.
Plus i don't have to plan an outfit everyday xD gosh if i had to think of an outfit every single day, i would dress like a blob.
having your outfit prep'd for you, you can focus on other things!
If i had to wear my home clothes, i would probably had been more self concious about my body.
I always used to feel really uncomfortable in school clothing like it just didn't feel right and I just hated it, I would have much rather expressed myself with my own clothes
Sixthform in a nutshell, stress to impress
Shynell Vaux I live in England so obviously I have and currently wear school uniform since I was idk, 4 or 5 and I've just come to love school uniform probably because I'm fashionable in the slightest and I don't have to plan what I'm wearing for five consecutive days.
And funnily (yet weirdly enough for a bunch of 13 year olds) I've had the 'school vs non uniform' debate at school and a 'makeup vs no makeup' debate with friends (I go to an all-girls school and people still wear makeup) and have basically covered almost all the points spoken in the video (none of us knew the existence of this video though) and both sides seem valid in certain aspects. Although in hindsight, I think it's just issues with self-esteem/consciousness or simply culture affect your opinion.
I loved school uniform since people wouldn't judge you on what you wear (coming from someone who was judged for other things). At least you wouldn't have to stress everyday on what to wear
From my point of view, and I agree its depending on how your school and other schools around you dress as well, but I *never* plan out what I'm going to wear. I just look whats in my dresser and plop random things on and just wear a big sweatshirt over it. I'd like to try a uniform someday so I can experience the other side of the argument but as of now, of course I am biased but I think its nice to hear what other people have to say! :)
The best part of school uniform is that when you got to the end of the last year at school and everyone got to sign your shirt and tie
Fiona Picken That’s weird, I have to use mine for the next year too. No one in my school ever does it.
@@emilyelizabeth7062 Not like at the end of every year, only at the end of year 6 and the end of year 11.
Caitlin caT at my school we have never done it....
@@emilyelizabeth7062 Oh, okay then.
Fíôñā_x_ Píçkëñ_x thats so ugly
So I live in Finland where schools don't have any kind of dresscode people wear what they want and I think it's great.
5:52 this is so true, i always feel its easier to do my homework well if i havent changed out of my school uniform yet
I wore a school uniform for the vast majority of my school career and in the beginning, I hated it! Now as an almost adult, I absolutely love the idea of it. I find that I focus more when I wear a “smart” outfit as suppose to when I wear my more casual clothing.
'school career'
Rhys 'N' Rob 😂 oops!
I do as well but I find them to be uncomfortable for long exams.
I went to a school called Harvard Elementary and we wore plain polos (the uncomfortable shirts will collars and buttons) and skirts....BROWN OR TAN SKIRTS. girls could only wear skirts unless it was winter.
The one school I went to was much more casual- a kilt for girls, boys wore dress pants, knee high socks, a white button up dress shirt and tie or polo shirt and a sweater. My other school we wore the same outfit but with a blazer added in
In Wales (well, my school), we had to have a separate uniform for P.E.
Same in my school (England)
Me too (New Zealand) lol a little bit out of the UK 😂❤️
Same in my school (Australia)
Same ( in Wales to)
yeah i think most uk high schools do , at primary school we had to wear a white t shirt and shorts
The school I when two, we had a school uniform for PE. It also had the school logo on it, too.
(Floridian) In our school we have a uniform but class systems are determined by what brand your polo is, I love Hollister and Abercrombie if you wear those brands it still put you in a higher class than if you weren't to have a logo. So the uniforms goal to make the class system less obvious (in our school at least) makes it more prevalent.
With school uniform, you don't need to choose what to wear in the mornings and evenings
Abdullah Delab it’s really not that difficult... I do a quick scan of my wardrobe and just pick what I feel like wearing. Now for some people who are really into fashion, they enjoy taking time to decide what to wear.
I basically have a cookie cutter outfit and just put on a different t shirt or sweater everyday.
Yes. That is the only reason I like having school uniform.
I wear a school uniform and I actually quite like school uniforms.
The fingertip rule always made me laugh when I've heard about it in american schools. My nana for example had ridiculously long arms (like disproportionately long octopus arms). She was doing a self portrait assignment in school once and got told to do it again because her proportions were wrong. Then she stood up and showed that they weren't. I always thought she would have had no issues with American dress codes 🤣
My year group got tag day band at my school as in since midway though year 9 we did not have a since including in 6th form (6 th form had a strict dress code) the only time we got anything near a tag day was the Christmas jumper day where you could replace your blazer for a jumper.
Also we had a PE uniform where you needed the school PE tops black PE shorts or the school Pe bottoms. If you wanted a jumper it had to be the school’s PE jumper.
Most schools now in the U.K. you have your school crest on every item of school clothing including sport kit making the uniform cost a lot more money then going to a supermarket and getting plain shirts, trousers etc
LifewithLaur My old high school makes girls who wear trousers buy ones with maroon (our school colour) piping on them
Lauren Clarke my uniform cost £100 per set
Uniform in the UK seems like a good idea until its the middle of summer, the air is extremely humid and yet your still expected to wear a blazer and theres NO AIR CON.. WHY
Kelli up here in Scotland it’s more of an issue in the winter when it’s too cold to just wear your blazer but the blazer is too chunky to fit in your bag with all your shit or to be able to put a coat on top of. Or if you can fit a coat on top, by the time you’ve walked to school you are sweaty and feel gross af. It’s a struggle.
Samantha T ohh yeah we get that too, it’s just as awful and considering blazers don’t have hoods, if it starts raining then everyone is just basically screwed. I just complained about the heat cause I prefer being cold over being sweaty tbh.
Kelli oh god the rain! You’re especially screwed when the rain is paired with a strong wind that your umbrella is not able to withstand. Or even if the umbrella can withstand it, a wind tunnel type of thing is created and your hair just ends up looking awful and you have to stay looking that way for the whole day because sadly schools do not provide straighteners.
Omg yes! Umbrellas are basically useless and If anyone has amazing hair in school I don't trust them because its so freakin impossible. I wish we could just wear our own jackets / coats / hoodies or whatever so that we could atleast have a 'manageable" morning
As an American who has gone to schools with a range of uniforms and dress codes I personally agree with uniforms being easier and an overall better experience. We were still able to accessorise for the most part although no hats was a big rule at all schools. And there’s always the worry with wearing jewellery in gym/PE because things get caught or puncture and make you bleed and that’s not fun.
One thing I did like from certain uniform rules was when it was simply a polo shirt/button up/whatever of a certain colour and skirt/shorts/trousers of a certain style/colour because then you could just shop from a brand that you like or can afford’s uniform section.
I really like my uniform because when I’m walking back home or pop into a shop on the way back from school it’s like a brag because I go the the best/higher end school in my area
I kinda like school uniform
COME AT ME
Chloe.Somer110 sooo much easier than having to choose an outfit every day
Same tbh
@@00_fab60 It's not like a hour long process
Ramon Gallegos but you have to basically choose a different outfit for each day of the week whereas with uniform it’s just the norm
@@00_fab60 Again, choosing an outfit is not a long process.
I’m from Northern Ireland and we have a specific PE kit that you can only buy from the uniform shop and it’s compulsory to have, you get detention if you don’t have it.
We also have to buy the skirts from the uniform shop because they’re specific.
Also we have a school scarf and different summer shirts.
That's shite
I'm from republic of Ireland and I just got my skirt and in M&S for a tenner
Got my blouse in Tesco and school jumper in the second hand uniform sale
Same with me when I was at school in Northern Ireland. You could get your shirt from Tesco or Asda or whatever (the winter normal shirt at least, not the summer one) but everything else had to be specifically got from the uniform shop 😬
In my school they only introduced it when I was in 4th year and you can only buy it from the o'Neill's website, I couldn't afford it so I didn't buy it. The teacher wasn't pleased but she just gave up eventually because it was a money issue.
This is like my school. We have to get specific uniform from a specific shop, and it wasn’t exactly cheap. We also had to get a summer and winter uniform, as well as a few separate PE kits due to different sports
There are actually some public school districts here in the U.S. that require uniform. Mine did (for elementary and middle school). It wasn't a blazer or anything, it was just a polo shirt (red, white, or any shade of blue [though some schools also had green and/or black as an option]) and pants, shorts, or a skirt (khaki or navy blue). We would have dress down day once a month
I had both, went to a school with uniforms until I was 11 (sixth grade) and then went to a different one without after. There wasn't that much difference at the end of the day. The pros and cons of each were pretty minimal. With a uniform I didn't have to think about what I was going to wear, but it also didn't cut back on bullying or anything because people would just focus on your shoes or your backpack or your lunch. No uniform meant I didn't have to buy the expensive uniforms and I got to wear what I liked, but it also meant I had to think about what I was wearing beforehand and what you picked played in a role in how other students and teachers saw you. But all those things were fairly small annoyances/benefits.
"Non-uniform" days were the shit back in primary. You felt so cool, so free coming in with your own stuff.
Until u got dress coded for wearing leggings lol (technically that was secondary school tho)