>>18504401
>Because those are less than 5% of schools in America. Most Americans go to regular public schools where you can wear whatever.
I'm pretty sure that's wrong. It's definitely way higher than 5%. I had school uniforms for every school I attended, my nieces and nephews all wear uniforms. I rarely see school kids outside, walking to school or at recess without uniform. In our children's clothing stores there are sections for school uniforms, for families that don't want to or can't purchase directly from the schools.
>They implement discipline, uniformity and equality among children. So it doesn't matter which economic, social and racial background you come from. You dress the same as everyone else in the class. It creates a sense of community and unity...
Again this is all bullshit, it's not true at all, they've researched all this. Uniforms stop none of this, and they definitely don't create a sense of comradery or community. Uniforms are only about control, the teachers and administrators want something to be able to discipline students over. Uniforms have no positive benifits to schools, student behavior, and education whatsoever.
>You're paying money for one or two sets of clothes
Even the poorest students here but more than two sets of uniform clothes. We have nuclear families, two working adults, no grandparents or aunts and uncles living with the family. Laundry gets done once a week or every two weeks. And yes it's a way to squeeze money out of parents, one year my high school made it so that the only official uniform shirts you could wear had to be purchased from the school, otherwise you'd be sent home everyday, and marked as truant.
>Americans used to dress in slacks, dress shirts and suits all the time until the 60s.
Nope in the 50s and 60s they did not dress up in shirts and slacks and suits and ties. Look up photos from those years. Photo I posted is from 1960. Formal dress didn't last long in America at all.