Seems very much like indoctrination to get kids to “fall in line” and enforced conformity, to try to remove independent thinking.

I’ve always hated the idea of that. What do you think about it?

  • altkey (he\him)@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Schools in my area had a dress code, and my school almost succeeded at requiring a select jacket model as a must (done by a single local company connected to a school admin, wink-wink), but faced backlash over poor price/quality balance 🙃

    One of the unusual upsides, many men well in their 20s, who otherwise couldn’t be bothered, had their high school formal suits to wear on future funerals and weddings. I was one of them and that was handy.

    If the uniform should be there, to ensure it’s not hostile, it may be:

    1. Of basic rules. Formal dresses, dark under the waist line, white over it.
    2. Civilian models, without a glimpse of cop/military details and ranks, insignias.
    3. Common to everyone without any color differentiation (and requirements to buy it in exact shade of a color).
    4. Rather cheap or even subsidized, shared from older to younger kids, because children are frequently growing out of them and it’s a bummer to buy ten+ sets of dresses.
    5. Purposely unisex and non-sexualized models.