Earlier at the Soviet schools it was accepted to wear a uniform school uniform. Now pupils have the right of the independent choice of clothes. However some educational institutions are going to enter obligatory wearing a school uniform for all pupils, including first graders.
Personal clothes as way of self-expression
If in any given educational institution the decision on introduction of a school uniform is made, some individuals perceive this decision as a certain dictatorship. That is the pupil whom obliged to wear a uniform is limited in the rights. As a result of it his vanity and a mental state suffers, quite often there is a depersonalization. Some supporters of a school uniform have an opinion that the uniform clothes promote more serious relation of the child to study. But this statement is incorrect as to it there are no direct proofs.
Psychologists claim that the teenager whom forcibly force to carry a type of clothes which is not pleasant to it, very often stays in a stressful state.
One more minus of wearing a school uniform – at cost it is available not to each family, especially considering as quickly the form wears out. To all other, the style is identical to each school student that too is not palatable as all have a different figure and build. Also the monotony in clothes oppresses children, suppressing their mood.
Whether there is an advantage in wearing a school uniform?
Undoubtedly, the advantage in introduction of a school uniform is. It is worth looking at preschool children who with pleasure wait for an important point of the life – at last to put on a school uniform and to go to 1 class. The form helps the child to adapt to study quicker. It eliminates social barriers, children from rather poor families do not feel discomfort and become more self-assured. First graders cease to be distracted by examining of bright clothes of each other, children look tidily and esthetically.
The school uniform promotes disciplinary behavior, helps to develop feeling of unity and collectivism.
One more point which costs on the party of a school uniform is that parents of the pupil do not need to think daily in what it will go to school tomorrow. Rough discussions concerning carrying a form take place constantly: someone considers that they take away the childhood from children, forcing them to wear suits, someone reports that carrying a form imparts a habit to future wearing clothes of business character. Nevertheless supporters of return of a school uniform on social polls appeared more. Some schools which hesitated to enter a uniform school uniform yet oblige children to attend classes in clothes of official style. Pupils are forbidden to wear jeans, t-shirts, tops, jewelry and other things. At boys trousers, a shirt, a tie, shoes and a jacket are considered as norm, and girls have a skirt or trousers, a blouse or a shirt, etc.