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The main issue with school uniforms is typically that they are not a set uniform but a dress code such as black slacks and white shirt for boys and a black skirt and white blouse for girls. Despite the schools effort to make all the students dress identical thus breaking down social and economic borders does not work, as the students who do have more money will still have more expensive clothes that meet the dress code. The only way around this is to have a required uniform that must be purchased through the school, but still money will play a roll here in the number of uniforms a student may have or how often they can afford new ones, and not hand me downs from older siblings.
In a perfect world I fully support uniforms, no one complains about the military's "freedom of expression" when they are required to wear a uniform or "shirt and tie" required at restaurants. But economically there are some downfalls.
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