School uniforms are negatively correlated with student performance

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sunrise is positively correlated with Egg Mcmuffins.

judging by the massively enthusiastic response to McD's selling breakfast all day this may in fact be true

Or not, when one can get an Egg McM at 3 a.m.!

touché

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Um, correlation and causation are not the same thing.

+1!

[Anonymous]

How dare they have my child wear an uniform and some of these teachers look like they just rolled out of bed with their pajamas. If I see one more sweatsuit male wearing walking around with his balls and bats swinging...I am gonna lose it. Then there's Miss Cleavage who's willing to assist and show directions. Has anyone take notice of the school security that's in their schools...the uniforms on these full figure women are beyond form fitting.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The relationship is starkly clear in DC. Schools without uniforms are at the top of every performance metric. It can't be a coincidence. It's not just income related because lower income students in schools without uniforms do better than students with similar incomes in schools with uniforms.

what DC schools are at the “top of [any] performance metric? That’s like being the tallest kid in your first grade class.

You should consider familiarizing yourself with the results posted by white DCPS students on the NEAP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How dare they have my child wear an uniform and some of these teachers look like they just rolled out of bed with their pajamas. If I see one more sweatsuit male wearing walking around with his balls and bats swinging...I am gonna lose it. Then there's Miss Cleavage who's willing to assist and show directions. Has anyone take notice of the school security that's in their schools...the uniforms on these full figure women are beyond form fitting.

Miss Cleavage, gotta love it. But the teacher with "batS swinging" would be disconcerting to see.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The relationship is starkly clear in DC. Schools without uniforms are at the top of every performance metric. It can't be a coincidence. It's not just income related because lower income students in schools without uniforms do better than students with similar incomes in schools with uniforms.

Only in America

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Anonymous wrote:Hardy is the most glaring example of DCPS uniforms, as the only public school west of Rock Creek Park to require them. And ii believe it has the lowest IB percentage of any public school WOTP. The recent Wa Po article on public school uniforms was telling. They became faddishly popular in some education circles in the 80s and 90s as a way of instilling discipline in chaotic, violence-prone, poverty plagued, urban schools. Even President Clinton hopefully endorsed them in the 90s as a means to reduce gang violence in schools. No one has mentioned a current gang problem and chaos at Hardy, but is this really the legacy and association that the school wants to embrace? It's a big turn off for Ward 3 parents and students that the school is supposed to want to recruit.

we can't have Deal for All, but we can at least have Deal's 'no uniform' policy

Believe me, the only thing great about Deal is the kids!!!