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School Uniforms

             School uniforms should not be abolished, but kept. Without school uniforms, the clothes the students wear will show if they are poor or rich. If school uniforms are not kept, students would wear inappropriate clothing to school. Students would also have problems figuring out what to wear the next day.
             At SAS, having to wear free dress twice a month will not show whether the student has a lot of clothes and how rich or poor they are. Without school uniforms, students will try their best to wear something different everyday. Even though you might come from a not-so-rich family, you would want to show that you have a lot of clothes. Peer-pressure is something very big in every school and if a student wears the same exact clothes for 2 to 3 days in a row, it might show that the student does not have that much clothes. This would lead the other students to think that the student comes from a very poor or not-so-rich family. On the other hand, if school uniforms were kept, it wouldn't matter whether you wear the same uniform twice or even 5 days in a row. Since everybody is wearing the same thing, the other students would not care if you are wearing the same uniform everyday. No one would notice.
             If the Singapore government said that school uniforms were abolished, students would start wearing inappropriate clothing. Boys would start sagging their already baggy pants while girls would wear hyper mini-skirts and would also wear shirts that could show their cleavage! This would lead the school's faculty to make strict rules on dress code. Making a very strict dress code would almost be like wearing something that was ideal to wearing a uniform. Therefore, there would be no point to wear something that students would want to wear.
             One thing that most students do the night before a free dress day would stand in front of their closet thinking about what to wear for the next day. It would take them forever to figure out what to wear because of peer pressure.


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