🚀 go-pugleaf

In la.general rich jankowski <rich@REMOVE-TO-REPLY.saturnlink.com> wrote:
: On Thu, 20 Nov 1997 15:05:11 -0800, alexbell@superzippo.com 
: <alexbell@superzippo.com> wrote:
: >Just go take a look and see who's
: >using the drugs. Make the school uniform mandatory and the druggie kids
: >might have a difficult time spotting each other! The children, and the
: >schools systems are in BIG trouble today. And people like you, who don't
: >want to get involved or make changes, are the reason. Wake up!

: Yeah, schools are in trouble.  Making it a little boot camp isn't going to
: make it any better.

: Shouldn't school be a fun place?  Uniforms aren't comfortable, which is going
: to impair the good kids from learning more than if they were casually dressed.
: I'm more productive at work when I get to come in casual. 

As much as I hate to zap you... you have just fallen into Alex's thought
process. You are associating your "common sense" solution to a problem. I
suggest you both look at studies on the use of uniforms and when they have
and haven't been effective.

In areas or schools where "colours" are used to differentiate individuals
to "associated groups" (commonly referred to as gangs) studies have shown
that uniform requirements have lowered the incidents of violent activity
in those schools. In other words, the random "pop" between two gangs
doesn't happen when you can't identify the random enemy.

There is no evidence that uniforms increase scores, keep kids in school,
lower truancy or anything else (although a study released in Philidelphia,
I believe, did show that there was a decrease in truancy after uniforms
were required... seems that it's hard to play hookey when you're in a
"school uniform". The study was preliminary, only one year old, and the
study time was supposed to be three years with both a test and a control
high school).

: These comments pretty much show what kind of "wack-job" parent you are. 

Rich, please stop picking on the posting challenged.

jmi