Solution or Problem? : School uniform

For 6 years, as I was middle school, high school student, I wore school uniform. When I become a middle school student from elementary school student, school uniform was the big issue among friends. During school years, some students reformed the uniform or purchased again because they changed their school or their grown out of his clothes. And school uniform store had price competition, because uniform price expensive so parent want less expensive one.  In all ages, school uniform is on the center of issue among students. But actually,  school uniform is not good for student because of three reasons : where they came from, economically, right of students

 School uniform is vestiges of Japanese imperialism. During 1910-1945 colonial occupation of the Korean peninsula, Japan made many rules that were easy to control Korean. School uniform was one of the rules in school. They made students wear same clothes and limited their behavior as students. Although it was very degrading treatment as Korean, there are still remained. Whatever the reason why they follow that rule again, they have to think more deeply where uniform comes from and why we, our grandparent ,wore it and it is right way and there is other way except uniform.

 Some people said uniform keep student from feeling economic gap between the rich and the poor. But this idea has long passed, it could apply to past when school uniform was not so expensive and all uniform was same regardless school regulation. Today’s school uniform various depend on school regulation and price is also various and expensive. So student who wear certain school uniform is may be rich to go that school. Furthermore there are other things that students showed their economic level such as outer clothing or cell phone. So Uniform can’t solve the feeling that poor fell all the more deprived.

 School uniform could undermine student’s right. People have a right to reveal personality traits through clothes. But school uniform infringe upon people’s right by making the students wear same form clothes and control their thought and behavior, not only wearing uniform but conforming to a single standard. Some advocates of school uniform maintain that uniform save students needless waste of time to send on clothes or accessory which reveals their personality traits. If so, are students not human? Are they just studying machine? Revealing personality is the only reason people can’t concentrate on studying. So school uniform is not solution but problem as student’s right.

Before choose the solution, people should think about where this rule come from, can it make another problem, is it really good for in view of the purpose.  The advocator argue that ‘School Uniform’ can be the way of solving students relatively depressed on home economic and making students focus on studying. Of course it can be the solution these problem. But we think about it, can cause other serious problem like human right and its purpose is really for students, so good for students? School uniform locked students in school as a cause of combination. Who is combination for? For teacher? For parent? For police?  If we can’t answer these questions, school uniform is not good solution.

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