We are not creating soldiers we are making individuals that have to learn to make their own decisions in life.
If what you say is true, then why should we even bother to send them to school? Afer all, isn't one of the more important benefits of a good education the learning of how to be able to make decisions which are in one's best interests? Adults who don't know how to do this never learned as children.
I understand that the clothes kids wear is not always appropriate for a learning enviornment. So I would like to propose an alternative to the prison style type of learning enviornment that the school and misunderstood parents are trying to create.
Prison style learning environment? Is dressing in a considerate, dignified, modest, plain style your idea if a prison environment? Or, are you simply out of touch with anything not adolescent?
It's simple, just be strict let the kids pick their own clothing but when it becomes a disstraction don't make them go home just tell them not to wear that item of clothing again. Simple as that.
It is not that simple. It begins with an enforceable definition of what is a distraction, when does a distraction rise to the level of concern, and what, specifically, caused the distraction. It would provide a field day for the ACLU who would be called by parents who have no control over their kids.
I guess parents don't remember being a kid in school, because if they did they would remember how the teachers and school board despised what they wear and this is no different than now so why force uniforms on your kids when you never had to wear them.
If kids today dressed and behaved the way their parents did, the problem we are discussing, how to better educate children, would be a lot easier to solve, wouldn't it?