Uniforms?

Memphis City Schools Anti-Uniform

Once again I am searching for more about School Assessment, and I came across a petition to stop school uniforms. Before clicking the ‘back’ button, I skimmed it a little bit, and a phrase caught me. It says “our schools need serious work, and school uniforms are an attempt at a quick and easy fix that is simply not possible.” …………What? School uniforms……fixing problems?? I always thought that was just a rumor. Actually, I don’t even see students wearing school uniforms anymore, not much anyway.

Back to the topic, the petition says that this is unjust. Now, I’m not typing this to make a big uniform argument, but is this really the problem? I checked to see who has written this, and it just says ‘The Undersigned.’ Clicking that just leads me to the signatures. Who wrote that opening paragraph? Was it really ‘concerned students’ or someone else? Whoever wrote this feels that uniforms are unjust and a big problem. Why are MCS students made to wear uniforms? Is it really to fix all of the problems the schools have or is there some underlying agenda to all this? If the schools’ standards are low, will uniforms make the students appear more proficient or even educated?

Rhetorical questions are all I can come with at this point. Making a petition to stop something like uniforms should be the last thing you need to petition for in MCS.