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our school uniforms actually beneficial share
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if you look good in plaid of cool
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I I'm Anthony this is the news it's back to school time
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who and here in the US more public schools than ever are adopting mandatory
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uniform policies for students
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double woohoo about 23 percent all schools in the country require them now
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school boards and educators hope that uniforms will stop violence and bullying
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increase focus on academic performance
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and even improve attendance but is any about true
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mostly series come from a program run in Long Beach Calif in 1995
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the district was full gang violence discipline problems low attendance
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and sexual assault and after putting everybody in uniforms for a year
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the overall crime rate in the school system dropped ninety percent assault
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was down by 80 percent vandalism by 70 percent
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suspensions were down by ninety percent and those are big numbers
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but that was almost twenty years ago a lot of studies have been done since then
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and none of them have shown the same results
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orb anywhere near them when longest-running studies is from the
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National Center for Educational statistics
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between 1988 and 2004 followed students from different school districts in
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background from the eighth-grade
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all the way through college to see just how they were affected by wearing a
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uniform
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first of there was no change in bullying and victimization
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at all results were the same for substance abuse and behavioral problems
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uniforms can actually cause their own kind of issues like a lot of schools in
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England
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are actually trying to back away from the traditional uniforms because
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teachers say
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they spend too much time arguing with kids over things like
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untucked shirts and it's distracting them from actually you now
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educating one area that actually has shown a slight improvement in uniform
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districts is attend its
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particularly in junior high students especially girls the theory there
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is that so much pressure is put on them about how they look and uniforms
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actually relieve them
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have some %uh day as the former second-hand slash
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bargain-basement nerd King of Rock Lake middle school I can relate
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but let's get down to what's important kids are in school to learn right
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so how r uniforms helping education they are not
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well okay they are a little in very specific case it's
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some schools showed slightly increase reading scores and 83 tenth graders
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but they had zero effect on math across the board and in some cases
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being lowered science and history scores so why we persist with the whole
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uniforms are beneficial thing well most school districts keep pointing to that
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Long Beach experiment from 1995 you know you think institutes and learning would
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do better research but
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then again my high school American history textbook only one up to World
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War two
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you know I actually always wanted to have school uniforms growing up they
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made me think I'd like
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wrong Dahl novels an animated Harry Potter
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you know kids on their own maybe with powers our destinies definitely
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with feelings I also hated picking out clothes in the morning
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1080 guys have to wear school uniforms are you wearing a school uniform right
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now
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how do you feel about them let me know down below and subscribe for more Dean
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