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“Power Outline”

School Uniforms

1. Cause
2. Not behaved
2. Low academics/discipline
2. Inappropriate learning environment
2. Gang related clothes
2. Academics/discipline
2. School creation of reasonable rules
2. School district of controlling discipline sets: dress code
2. Uniforms outweigh free speech
2. So few boundaries
2. Gives limits
2. Easy spotting people who don’t belong
2. Bill Clinton wanted answers on low test scores
2. Improve safety and discipline
2. Safer school

1. Uniforms
2. black bottoms, white tops, and red jackets
2. Black and blue pants
2. Skirts
2. Shorts
2. White shirts
2. Knit shirts
2. Jumpers, white shirts
2. Kakis, jeans

1. Study
2. Required vs. un required
2. Two high school’s within St. Tammany Parish school district
2. 9th-12th grade
2. National Education Longitudinal study of 1988
2. 8th- 12th graders
2. National sample

1. Effects
2. Better behaved
2. High academic achiever
2. Better behaved
2. Great academic potential
2. Gang related clothes are gone
2. Polarized “brand clothing”
2. Performance, security, discipline, and morale
2. Increased community
2. Student self-esteem
2. Violates First Amendment
2. Indirectly effect school environment
2. Poor predictor of Standardized Tests
2. Substance abuse, behavioral problems, and attendance
2. Student academic achievement
2. Standardize Achievement scores
2. No more: hats, head wraps, cleats, metal-heel plates
2. No more: baggy pants, earrings, gang related paraphernalia
2. Teaches hygiene, and maintaining discipline
2. Assuring safety and reducing violence
2. Gang insignia, pornography, racial slurs
2. No gang related clothing
2. No more tempered teachers
2. No more student arguments
2. Fights dropped 40%
2. Documented success
2. Students say: We feel like were in jail!
2. Students say: Totally bogus!
2. Assault and battery dropped 34 %
2. Fights dropped 51%
2. Suspensions dropped 32%
2. No more discipline problems
2. Districts: Oakland, California, Dade, Florida, Seattle, South Carolina
2. Low income families can’t always afford
2. The district can excuse a child from uniforms
2. No: gang colors
2. Discipline
2. Distractions reduced
2. Community
2. Recognize people who don’t belong
2. Violate freedom of speech
2. Too expensive
2. Interfere with religious clothing
2. Students: focus on education
2. Discipline
2. Drugs, assault, battery, and fights
2. Violence, discipline, and environment

1. Results
2. Behavioral problems decreased dramatically
2. Assault and battery charges went down 34%
2. Suspensions went down 32%
2. Improvements in attitudes or preparation
2. Attendance rates, drugs, behavioral problems, academic achievement
2. School environments
2. Violence decreased
2. Have: casual uniforms
2. Outlet own expression
2. Accommodate religious beliefs

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