Topic > Letter to the Governor - 835

Letter to the GovernorDear Mr Governor, I wish to complain about your recent decision to impose an embarrassing school uniform on students at Bosworth College, which is supposed to be a school where expression is encouraged. However, imposing a school uniform will shatter students' self-expression. As a college student I am shocked at the thought of being told what to wear. It's not enough that we are told what to do, what not to do, where to go and when to go, but making students wear what they are told will cause more people to try to rebel against the school. Yes, I understand the arguments for a uniform: it reduces discrimination, it gives students less to worry about, it gives students a sense of unity and equality. I also know that 83% of parents prefer the uniform because it is more elegant and economical than the designer clothes that students always want to wear, and it is more appropriate and sensible than the low-cut, revealing clothes that teenage girls want to wear and the dresses that are too expensive ones that have a brand name stamped on everything that teenage boys want to wear all the time. Uniforms would make students appear more organized, especially in the eyes of teachers, and would give them an identity, which would be recognized outside of school and would make students more identifiable if they skipped school during class time. But in reality the majority of students in schools surrounding Britain are against school uniform and it is the students who should decide whether they want uniform or not, parents should not walk around all day in that uniform, not even the teachers of the governors but the students, and they are the ones who don't want a uniform. Uniforms can shrink