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Originally Posted by wittynickname
While there is some vague reason for high school students to follow a stricter dress code, presumably in preparation for entering the work force, here's where it dawns on me that it's not about "professionalism" or "appropriateness.""
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I've never thought about it as a matter of "professionalism" or preparing you for adult life; I've always thought it was about creating difference between kids - school uniforms prevent the creation of an obvious high school class structure where the kid with rich parents has fancy new high fashion threads while the poor kids are in beat up hand-me-downs and stuff pulled out of a value store. Just another way of making kids different from other kids, and there's enough of that Lord of the Flies stuff in high school as it is.
But I'm not particularly fussed about the issue on the whole.