Our youth's image of senseless violence, gang involvement, and disrespect for teachers, education, and parents is being seriously scrutinized. However, this image is for the most part created by the mass media. It has a tendency to show only the negative because controversy sells. Most students attend school regularly, study, get good or adequate grades, and realize the full potential an education can provide. We risk alienating those students who have shown they are fully capable of learning over the concern of what clothes one is wearing by handing down an edict to those completely unworthy of the indictment.
Uniforms also can make negative statements.
This is not the positive reinforcement our youth need, especially those who do need the reinforcing. Uniforms placed within problematic areas can cause resentment towards the educational system we want them to embrace. The end simply does not justified the means. The execution of a school uniform policy is only covering up the true ailment in the socio-educational triangle that exists between our youth, their parents, and our educational system. Look at what causes this lack of respect for peers, parents, educators, and education itself.