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[] PROS: More professional. More focus on academics. Good discipline. Less problems. Reduce fighting and violences. Ease tentions with gangs and cliques. Not as much distraction. Go spirt! More school pride.

-www.greatschools.org PROS: Help prevent gangs from forming on campus. Encourage discipline. Help students resist peer pressure to buy trendy clothes. Help identify intruders in the school. Diminish economic and social barriers between students. Increase a sense of belonging and school pride. Improve attendance. CONS: Violate a student's right to freedom of expression. Are simply a Band-Aid on the issue of school violence. Make students a target from other schools. Are a financial burden for poor families. Are an unfair additional expense for parents who pay taxes for a free public education. Are difficult to enforce in public schools.

[] Forbes, Jr., Malcolm S. "A UNIFORMLY GOOD IDEA." //Forbes// 10 Oct. 1994: 26. //MAS Ultra - School Edition//. EBSCO. Web. 29 Mar. 2010. PROS: Keep kids focused more on school, and not on making a fashion statment. Can make it where people can be seen by sports or academics and not by what they wear. Money saver. Help focus. Time saver, "Too many students spend an inordinate amount of time worrying about what they should wear." No stand outs. Ruduce violent. "Uniforms subtly decrease the influence of gangs whose members have set themselves apart by their distinctive garments."

[] Akerman, Bev. "WHITE TOPS, GREY BOTTOMS." //Maclean's// 118.10 (2005): 57. //MAS Ultra - School Edition//. EBSCO. Web. 29 Mar. 2010. CONS: Uniforms take away creativity, self expression, and individuality. PROS: Uniforms are supposed to "create an environment conducive to learning" and a sense of "community among students."

[] It didn't have a citation. PROS: Less time and focus spent on whats hot and whats not. Students can express themselves beyond just an outfit.