Thursday, March 13, 2008

R.A.

I don't really have a source to analyze right now, which is the problem. My first paper was about school uniforms and why they stop school violence. The weakest part of the paper was definitely in dealing with my counter-argument, which is the cost of school uniforms. It is a big problem, because a lot of people can't afford them and the whole point is obviously for everyone to have one. All of the rearch I can find about paying for school uniforms is from other countries, though! Mostly England. They have all kind of grants and ways for the government to pay for the uniform, which is great, but I need a United States example, since I am not writing to British people. And they do have good ideas, but they would require law changing and I don't really have time to get into that in my 1000 word paper. So I'm kind of in a bind. I guess if I knew of any real-life examples of schools that got money somehow to pay for uniforms that would work, but I have no idea how to find something like that. I didn't actually have uniforms in any of the schools I went to, so I don't have any firsthand experience with the realities of paying for school uniforms. If any of you know of something like that and could tell me how I could find information on it that would be great, because information is what I need to add to my counterargument. Not just my own ideas, but ideas that have worked for school districts already. Hopefully by adding that it will strengthen my paper a lot. In general I think I just need to add more research to everything, though. The more sources I have the more credible my ideas are and the more likely I will be to convince anyone of anything.

2 comments:

Brandon Pedersen said...

I think the largest problem you have is in the States uniforms are indicative of privatized education, while in England they have more universal education laws. Perhaps you could compare and contrast conflicting educational laws? It's a tough one.

Robert (Bob) Stewart said...

Do school uniforms necessarily have to be so strict as to need buying new things?

Certain articles of clothing were banned in my high school. While it not a uniform per se it still imposed a tiny bit of uniformity.

(The baseball players would sometimes stage protests by bringing hats to school stuffed in their pockets. Then they'd replace their hat with another one as soon as it was confiscated.)