Reply #22: The individuality issue [View All]

[George_Bonanza]

The way I see it, school fashion is conformity anyway. There's like the skater crowd, conforming to what they see on MTV, then there's the baller crowd, conforming to what they see on MTV, then there's slacker crowd, conforming to what they see on MTV, and then there's the non-conform crowd, conforming to whatever the rest isn't wearing. It's all conformity folks. I don't see why wearing a polo shirt instead of a hooded sweatshirt is such an infringement of "individuality". I believe individuality comes from within, not from what you wear. Uniforms will not suddenly cause students to think alike. They are merely an aesthetic and financial issue, not a individual one. I think it's a huge leap of faith to assume that uniforms will suddenly stamp out individuality.

Are you implying that students in Europe or Asia, where uniforms are more common place, are somehow less as free-willed human beings than us? Or that private school students are less individualistic than public school students? I find this whole attitude to be arrogant.