[Step Two]

The school uniform should be banned primarily because it is too expensive considering the use of them. The average of the school uniforms is about $250 per one pair around the world. The total range would be about $200~$1000. This would be a big financial burden for middle or lower class parents. They would even have to buy more and more whenever their children grow. Even if there is a financial aid from the government, most of them would still have to pay. The line between whom to support and whom not to, is not certain. Even those who are not as poor to get financial aid might feel it too expensive. Although there are school uniforms, students still need other clothes even if we already have school uniform to wear. Uniforms are just for school. It’s not like we’re going to wear school uniforms for the whole day. School normally ends at 3~4 p.m. Parents would have to pay for both school uniforms and other clothes whereas they would have had to pay only for normal clothes if there were no school uniforms.

Children should be able to express their creativity freely. Article 19 of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression.” Schools are keeping children from developing their own creativity and expressing their individuality by making them wear the same clothes. Some say there are other programs for creativity. But, those programs are unnecessary if the schools are not allowing children to express their creativity from the most basic thing like what to wear. Clothes are the fundamental ways of showing themselves.

Some say that if there is no school uniform, poor kids would tend to wear cheaper clothes and that can be a reason for being bullied. Conformity is not the only solution to the bullying problems. Schools should try to teach children that everyone is different and that each one should be respected equally. That’s what education is. Making everyone look the same is only a short term solution; there are other factors of bullying, too. Learning conformity at school is what makes children turn discriminative towards people who are only a little bit different from them. They should try to teach the difference between people and how they all should be respected. That is what the education is, in long term. If school uniforms are important in a way of conformity, the enforcement for wearing them cannot be justified.