In Many Countries, Schoolchildren Must Wear Uniforms. Do the Advantages of This Policy Outweigh the Disadvantages? Give Reasons for Your Answer and Include Any Relevant Examples from Your Knowledge or Experience.
Sample Answer: In Many Countries, Schoolchildren Must Wear Uniforms.
In most nations of the world, it is compulsory for pupils to wear uniforms. Today, this has more benefits than side effects, mainly because of security reasons: imposters are on the increase. Uniforms help with proper identification, theft prevention, and behavioural conduct.
To begin with, uniforms are marks of identification and just as the saying goes, “the way you dress is the way you will be addressed”. Therefore, our dressings speak volumes about us. For example, when you see military personnel, you are quick to identify such one, so also, when you see a child dressed in particular wear, you will quickly know where such belongs, and in case a pupil strays away, the apparel the child puts one will help to locate where he or she is coming from quickly and to help return such child to his or her appropriate school.
Furthermore, when a school pupil puts on a uniform, he or she is cautious of involvement in any evil or immoral acts. Even though his or her name is unknown, people can easily describe the physique of the individual who might have committed any illicit behaviour just because such a person is dressed in a uniform. Such a perpetrator can easily be fished out of a multitude in the same school. Hence, this set the tone for caution in the hearts of all kids, making them know that they are the school’s ambassadors wherever they go in uniforms.
Also, there is nothing with merits without demerits. Uniforms announce you to the public even when you don’t want to be known. For example, when a policeman walks quietly to a shopping mall to make some purchases without the thought of making any arrest of criminals, if peradventure there are hoodlums in that area who have been a significant threat to the area and have been on the watchlist of the security agencies, once this sight the personnel in uniform, they disappear into thin air immediately, which otherwise could have served as a useful avenue to getting details about their hideouts if the officer had just passed their in mufty, no easy recognition would have happened. Also, if children of school age are not made to put on uniforms compulsorily, kidnappers looking for a child to abduct from a reputable school won’t have had the slightest opportunity to do so if the pupil had not walked in the environment with the school uniform.
Conclusively, school owners should study the trends in the school environment and enact appropriate laws with some flexibility rather than dogmatism.
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