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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]My issue with this debate is that essentially what many of you are saying is that poor children should be happy to just wear their uniform all the time. [/b]In my experience, as a poor kid myself and then as the mom of a kid in a uniform school in DCPS, [b]children would like to wear a Spider-Man shirt or a dress that’s not navy and collared or jeans instead of khakis.[/b] Suggesting that families ignore that desire and prioritize uniforms seems to me to be yet another way to make poor people feel crappy. Sure, kids need clothing. They need clothing that is clean, appropriately sized and weather appropriate. It doesn’t have to be a school uniform. If the school did not require uniforms, children and families would still be buying one set of clothing. They would not also have to sacrifice their individual preferences as you are suggesting. When my kid graduated from her uniform school and started at a school that doesn’t require uniforms, she was very happy to start being more experimental with fashion. I don’t think that should be limited to kids whose families can afford to buy an entire second set of clothing. [/quote]

Thank you!  One or more PPs keeps forcefully arguing that uniforms are not a hardship, when several of us have provided evidence that it can be.

Also, yes, it irks me that kids WOTP are allowed individuality and can wear that Spider-man t-shirt or whatever according to their whim, but that my brown EOTP kid is not allowed to.  It's part of a larger pattern of harsh, punitive rules regulating children's clothing/hair at majority black/brown schools across the country.[/quote]

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