Smashboards

We used to have school uniforms at my primary school too. They were obligatory back then, although I think that has changed ever since.

In high school everyone was free to dress however they wanted doh. The only rule was to not wear anything which covered your face.

I'm fine with dress codes in the US since all you have to do is wear a shirt and any pants that don't show half your ass. The only time they banned something in my middle school, they banned durags and they got a lot of **** for it so it was overturned. I'm generally for uniforms as it can reduce bullying, but I don't understand why cultural items are banned. Especially since it helps to develop understanding and tolerance for kids, who desperately need to be taught that at a young age.

Which brings me to a funny story where my friends sister wore a hijab to school and she was told to take it off by a teacher because there are no head coverings allowed, so they had to explain to this 60 year old Christian white woman why they can't take off religious clothing lmfao.

It doesn't stop at what you can or can't wear either, but they also limit you physically. At my old Christian school, boys couldn't have their hair past their eyebrows, they couldn't have makeup unless it was for a school play, and they couldn't have earrings. I can't remember what the rules were on how long girl's dresses/skirts/shorts had to be, but like, people straight up had measuring sticks to keep it enforced (and this still happens at public schools which is really weird, my sister had to be sent home on her first day of high school for it). Also, girls could wear pants but guys couldn't wear skirts which seems unfair. On top of this we had the usual uniform. Maroon polos (or jumpers for girls), if you wore a school sweater then your polo collar had to be showing, and dark blue khaki's.

Now the reason this was enforced was to keep focus on school to a maximum and prevent jealousy and in-groups and all that, but that's not something you can prevent with elementary or middle schoolers. Wearing white polos instead of maroon ones was generally considered uncool, as was not wearing the maroon sweater. We had Spirit Days on Fridays (which meant you could wear anything branded with the school logo so long as it followed the dress code). And then of course, they didn't limit what kind of shoes you could wear. So really the uniform solved nothing except for making the first ten years of my schooling feel really uncomfortable, literally.