uniform editorial

It's been two weeks since Joe fainted due to a serious cough, a fever and runny nose. It was a shock to all people in our school because despite serious coughs and runny noses, no one has ever fainted. He didn't come to school for a few days. Joe is not a weak boy; he is good at sports, he's talented in every sports game and very active.

Joe is not the only one who caught a cold. Most of the students caught serious cold because they have to wear thin school uniforms every Friday no matter what happens to the weather, whether it’s cold or not. The school set a rule that if students wear something under or on the uniform, in other words we are not allowed to cover our school logo or symbol. If anyone tries to wear extra clothes either on or under the uniforms, they could get green slips which mean a light punishment.

The weight of the punishment is not important, but the most important thing is that because of that regulation, students might end up like Joe. Wearing a short sleeve or thin long sleeve and a bit heavy sweater don’t provide enough warm for students in freezing cold weather, especially in mid December to end of February. Also, most of the students don’t wear school uniforms except for Fridays, they don’t wear them very often but they tend to wear other clothes.
Some people say that although the students are not allowed to wear extra clothes, just wearing school uniforms provide a strong school spirit. Yes, school spirit is important for school and the students, but health comes first as D.C. said “Although school spirit is important, health always comes first”. If students are dying, then they won’t produce enough school spirit. Some people say having a uniform regulation makes both students and their parents easy and comfortable because they don’t have to worry what they will wear and since uniforms are expensive, they should wear them more often. That’s a very strong argument, but wearing school uniforms more often cuts down students’ individualities and as I mentioned above, if students don’t wear enough clothes to have sufficient warmth, they will get sick. If that illness gets worse, students will have to suffer more until they are fully recovered and this will not make their parents happy. If students keep getting sick, their parents will complain to the school and will urge teachers or to change the rule so that their children don’t have to suffer anymore because of illness. Also, sometimes people who suffer from the illness often complain because they think that they are getting the disease due to people who caught the disease first and they will eventually blame the administrators who made the rule. School faculties do not want students in school unless they are fully recovered without knowing that the administrators are the cause of the sickness.

So what I want to say is that wearing school uniforms is not bad at all. If regulators allow students to wear extra warm clothes with uniforms, just like W.M. said “it will be good if we can wear extra clothes on or under the uniform,” things will get a lot better.