Transition To Uniforms In Schools

Students should not go to school worrying about what they are wearing all day. Uniforms help students focus more on school work and less on outfits of the day. Schools should transition to uniforms because it lowers gang related issues, tests scores have shown to improve, and uniforms encourage safety.

Uniforms lower gang-related issues; therefore, they should be transitioned into schools. Gangs make schools, as well as students and staff, feel unprotected. They also put students under a lot of pressure. Gangs are quickly expanding through schools and communities (Imberman). According to a current report made by National Gang Intelligence Center gangs typically gather lower grades schools to join their gangs (Brusma). This makes school

an unsafe place for students to be. If schools put a restriction on what students can and cannot wear then students will not be able to label themselves. When VADB School of Graduates conducted studies they showed that when transitioning to uniforms gang affiliated issues were not the main problem at schools anymore (Brusma).
Students will not be able to represent gang colors; therefore, fewer gang-related problems will be going on in school.

Gangs usually differentiate themselves by wearing specific colors or cutting their hair a certain way (Imberman). If schools allow gangs to distinguish themselves they will spread quicker and cause more problems (Imberman). Allowing students to be distracted by what their classmates are wearing is unfair to the ones that go to school focused and ready to learn. Students often join gangs because they feel peer pressured and unsafe. As a result, they feel the need to join a gang for protection (Brusma). Uniforms are a good way to have the order in school and lower the risk of having gang influences during school. The uniform would also eliminate a lot of gang related issues going on in school. National Association of Principals conducted a study between uniformed schools and non-uniformed schools (Pate). The outcome showed that uniformed schools have less gang related activity, and school violence (Pate). In the year 2000 the number of schools across the country that switched to school uniforms increased by 5 percent to help reduce criminal activity in schools, according to the National Center for Educational Statistics (Pate). If Board of Education wants a safe environment for students staff to have to work and do what they can to make it happen (Imberman). Without gang-related issues in school students will be able to focus on their education

more, which results in higher test grades.
Test scores have shown to improved when schools transitioned into uniforms (Beckett). Students can focus more on their education than what they are wearing. When uniforms were enforced schools had less distraction, with fewer distractions students pay more attention to school work (Beckett). There was a research done at Youngstown University that showed graduation rates increased when uniforms were being enforced in schools (Greenwood). Studies have found higher reading and math scores, especially in female students. Uniforms are a huge factor of what could affect the student's education. On average, parents with children enrolled in grade school spend $670 dollars on clothes, school supplies, and electronics (Greenwood). This money could be saved up and put away for advanced school education, or mandatory things they will later need in school. There should not be a reason for teachers to take away from their instructional time just to call out a student that is out of dress code. If all schools remove dress code distractions students will be able to focus more on their education. Better test scores would make the student as an individual succeed better, as well as the school as the school as a whole. Uniforms take away all the attention students give to their outfits instead of their education (Beckett). Students need a safe environment to be able to learn, succeed, and study in, which is another way on how uniforms also encourage safety in schools.
Uniforms help encourage safety in schools, as a result, more schools should transition into uniforms.

There have been many school shootings in the past years. Uniforms help prevent students from hiding weapons under baggy clothing. Uniforms also help staff identify unauthorized visitors that have entered the school (Lany). Uniforms help influence safety in schools in many ways. If teachers can identify unauthorized visitors faster, they can also get more free time on their hands and not have to roam the halls and check for unauthorized visitors (Beckett). If Board of Education requires students to wear uniforms there would be less left in schools ( Lany). Students, as well as teachers both, need to be kept safe during school. There would be less theft in school because everyone would look the same, and wear the same things, so students would not have a reason to steal. Uniforms have lowered theft in schools; since students are required to wear uniforms, they do not wear expensive brand name clothing (Beckett). Uniforms order a stricter atmosphere: therefore, there are fewer discipline problems (Lany). When uniforms were enforced teachers noticed behavior positively changed. Better behavior means fewer fights in school, and fewer distractions going on during class. Teachers and students will be able to be calmer and get more instructional time during their classes instead of calling students out for misbehaving. Schools give students a better learning atmosphere

by making schools safer, and improving test grades.
There are many reasons why schools should transition into school uniforms. Uniforms have a lot of positive effects and benefits for students and schools. Three benefits of transitioning to uniforms are the lowering gang related issues, tests scores have shown to improve, and uniforms encourage safety; therefore, schools should transition to required uniforms.