![]() They saw dress as a mode of expression in schoolyard politics,Īnd in world politics: in 1969, in Tinker v. In the sixties, students fought for more autonomy in dress, to signalĪllegiance to a particular band or clique or general attitude toward the School day) and deference to teachers and principals, who had wideĭiscretion to tell a boy that he looked like a hoodlum, or tell a girl that For the most part, theĪppearance of students was governed only by the nagging of parents (“GetĪ haircut!”) informal norms (T-shirts were for athletics, not the Against BritishĬommonwealth traditions, we were the free and easy New World, theĬountry where children dressed themselves. Reclamation of the olden days, they are relatively new in this country. Interventions on which charter-school advocates and anti-charterĮven the students have gone along, in one of the great surrenderings of Improve student achievement or school climate, about one-fifth of all That was an imaginary time, of course, but nostalgia for it has helped to create the modern school-uniform movement, which has won the kind of broad-indeed, nearly uniform-support that exists for no otherĮducational policy, or social policy, that one can think of.Īlthough there isn’t a scholarly consensus that uniforms do anything to ![]() Our teachers respected, and our children all above average. As she walked to the corner toĬatch the bus, I was reminded of a time when our schools were orderly, For her first day, sheĬhose the navy skirt with the white polo. ![]() Zip-up (on which the school crest is optional). It’s not so much a single uniform as a broad wardrobe ofĬoördinated prep-wear: skirts or pants, paired with piqué polo shirts,Īll in “goldenrod yellow,” navy, or white, topped off by a fleece School where she began sixth grade last week, is perfectly nice. ![]() My daughter’s school uniform, required by the public magnet middle ![]()
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