Dress Codes In Public Schools Analysis

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In his article from The New York Times, Mathabane express the opinion about the dress codes in public schools of the United States. He thinks that greater use of uniform will protect students and promote learning. To illustrate his point of view, Mathabane mentioned about his two sisters who suffered distraught because of their homely outfit in school. In addition, he realized that students now pay attention on their appearance than their minds. It leads to the class interruption when students do makeup in class. Seriously, they even measure parental love by how much money their parents give them to buy clothes. Students easily think that putting luxury clothes on their bodies will give them status, earn them respect and send sexual messages. …show more content…
Normally, gangs recruit their members while they are in primary or secondary school, leading these recruits toward academic malaise, criminal activity, and incarceration. After that, gang members usually differentiate themselves from rival gangs members and non-members by wearing a specific color of clothing, cutting their hair a certain way, or dressing themselves in a particular style. Allowing gangs to distinguish themselves like this, places pressure on students who then realize the prevalence of gangs, feel unsafe because of the number of gang members, and feel compelled to join a gang for protection. According to a National Association of Public School, schools see a decrease in gang prevalence and school violence by 34% when they implement and enforce a school …show more content…
He mentioned about freedom of expression by saying “ …dress codes infringe on freedom of expression is misleading”. Then, he made a list of jobs that require to wearing uniforms such as flight attendants, bus drivers, etc without any diminution of their freedom. I think this evidence is not persuasive. There are some reasons why those jobs require uniform. First, they are paid to present for their company. For example, Vietnam airlines flight attendants have to wear Ao dai to represent Vietnam country. Every customer will know that they are flight attendants of Vietnam and from a Vietnamese airline. Second, those uniforms are suitable for their kinds of works. To illustrate it, looking at a football sport team, they have to wear T-shirts and short pants because they are doing sports. About students, they are not paid to represent for anything. Their study does not require any particular uniform to perform. Therefore, according to the First Amendment of the US Constitution, it guarantees that all individuals have the right to express themselves