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From: marion10@ripco.com (Marion Baumgarten)
Subject: Re: Uniforms in schools
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Cerebus <sharon@world.std.com> wrote:

>
> Not to mention the *Big* (for me at least) problematic element of this
> theory. If you, as a family, value non-conformity, non-preppiness (is that
> an adjective?) and individuality, what does that say about the contrast of
> the school values.  Middle and high school particularly make it very clear
> that they value conformity *anyway*, and tend to be a struggle for
> non-conformist students.  I find it disturbing to increase that trend -
> because why I realize there are real problems of violence and competition
> expressed by children's clothing, it seems first of all that the clothing
> does not generate the conflicts, but rather expresses them, and secondly,
> that it increases ever more the school's attempts to turn adolescents into
> conformist clones.
>
> Sharon Astyk

--
But even when they are choosing their own non-confomist clothes, they're
still conforming to fit in with the non-conformist group ( got it).
Frankly, I think he unifirms would free up the time spent on clothing
issues to do other things.

Marion Baumgarten   marion10@ripco.com
"There are days and weeks as, as we all have learned,when
only sex and good manners hold a marriage together. With a child
there is only good manners." Mother's Almanac
