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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'll be provocative:[b] white parents don't want the uniforms,[/b] so when you see your uniformed DCPS switch to non-uniformed, you'll know that you've reached the tipping point.[/quote]

Black parent here.  This is why I don’t like the idea of uniforms, and the EOTP vs. WOTP divide in this—too much tied to race in DC.  Also, uniforms don’t improve outcomes in low-performing schools, as had been previously thought.[/quote]

White parent here who is fine with uniforms EOTP because clearly they are important to others and I am happy to defer to those who care about this.  [/quote]

PP.  You're right, I also live EOTP and know people who like them for ease of getting kids dressed in the morning w/o hassle or arguments.  But I either think all schools in a given city either have them, or not.  It shouldn't shake out along racial/geographic lines.[/quote]

I don't love it either, but I definitely wouldn't feel comfortable making that as an argument to get rid of them.

Gentrification has brought enough change and tension to our school already.  [b]I strongly prefer to defer to lower-income preferences where I can.[/b][/quote]

PP.  But here's the thing, I don't know if that's anyone's strong preference.  I feel like many of these decisions were made in the 90s and they just stuck--to my knowledge, it has not been raised as an issue at our school, at least in the past several years.

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Also, our school currently has only a relatively small % of families that are economically disadvantaged, and I'm not sure whether these families have a greater preference for uniforms than anyone else.[/quote]

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