When you are little you don't have style, you wear whatever your parents want. In junior high you are still young but in high school you should have the free will to wear whatever you want. The uniform 'solution' is only adding to the problem. Students have other ways of expressing themselves. A number of students expressed revulsion with uniforms.
Uniforms are evil.
Several other young people interviewed for this story echoed Patterson's sentiment with some even comparing school uniforms to fascism and totalitarianism. The number of cities with youth curfews has increased dramatically in recent years and the criminal justice system has also become much harsher with juvenile offenders in recent years. Not everyone sees things like this. David Brunsma and Kerry Rockquemore echo this sentiment in their previously mentioned paper. And resistance to uniforms is growing as well.