Today, I asked my
class to write down a quick thought about school uniforms. It seems that the overall consensus is the
same as the States. They don't like
them. There are a couple of students
though who admitted that having a uniform makes getting dressed in the mornings
a lot easier. You may notice a couple of
these quotes have the word "mufti" in them. This just means the plain clothes of a person
who normally wears a uniform to a job or school.
Here are the
opinions of most of my Kiwi students straight from their pens and pencils:
"I think school
uniforms are a waste as your wasting your money on buying it when you have
perfect clothes already"
"I think you
shouldn't wear uniform But I think there should be some things that you can't
wear and some stuff you have to wear!"
"I think school
uniforms are okay. They mean not as much
washing but most uniforms are not very pretty!"
"My honest
opinion is that kids shouldn't have to wear school uniform but keep in reason
like for example no face piercing and so on."
"I think school
uniforms are ok because if we wear mufti because we would have to pick your
clothes for school"
"I think in
honest opinion that we shouldn't have uniforms as were some family may not have
$$ to be spending on uniforms. This may
be the cause of wrong uniform in our school."
"thay are cool
and I like them :)"
"I think
uniforms are Bad- I think wearing mufti means u can Exspress your style. U look
like a clone wearing uniforms."
"Uniforms are
okay, but I would defenitly side with no uniform and MUFTI!"
"School uniform
makes the mornings easier. Even though
they are not the most comfortable thing in the world they work. Also for P.E. you don't need to worry about
them getting wrecked or dirty."
"I think
uniforms are stupid because you get told off whenever your sock is a millimetre
too low. Although wearing school uniform
when not in school grounds is a good idea."
"I don't like
school uiniforms because it is really anoying that you have to change out of
you uniform every day and back and ford and it dosnt give children a chance to
expres themselfs "
"I think we
should get mufti everyday"
"I think that
uniforms are so silly well not silly but you no if we could all whare a uniform
that we like I would be Happy to come to school. I hate uniforms!! P.s. if you read this dont
sue me"
"I hate school
unefform because you have to wear the same thing 5 days a week every
week!"
"I don't like
them at all beause it is green and I don't like green but the good thing is
that you don't need to look for somthing
to wear in the morning."
"I don't really
like wearing uniform Because Sometimes you can't find certain Parts of it and
my clothes are actually nice and comterble."
"I think school
uniforms present your school"
"I think School
uniform is a waist of time. What happens
if you only have one set of uniform and it is in the wash. You have more muftie
clothes"
"Uniforms make
it easy to get ready for school instead of choosing a whole costume to
wear."
"Uniforms make
school easy. Especially in the morning.
Instead of stressing"
"I don't like
skchool uniform! Uniforms are boring, Itchy and uncomfortable we might as well
come to school naked for more comfortbility.
No don't take this sereasly I don't really want to come to school naked It's
just a azacharation [exaggeration]. But
every kid in the world would rarther where mufti because on normal days kids
are depret and on mufti days kids are super happy and all grateful about life. So in connclusion I think that we should keep
mufti day for everyday and uniform for no days."
(Can you tell by the
last "short answer" that we've been working on persuasive writing in
class?)
Throughout the
responses I colored the positive ones a dark green and the negative ones a bold
red. Some students could see both sides,
but let's see a total count of each side!
Keep Uniforms: 7
Mufti Days: 15
Is anyone else surprised with the results? It's amazing that more than even a couple kids like school uniforms and can find the positive in them!
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