SCHOOL UNIFORMS ARE JUST AN INEFFECTIVE BAND-AID APPROACH
Marylou Tousignant, Staff Writer, The Washington Post, March 01, 1996, Pg. A01, HEADLINE: Trying Uniforms on for Size; Policy Fad May Not Fix Schools // acs-VT2000
``This is just a Band-Aid on a much deeper wound. Problems with juvenile crime and behavior in school are not going to be solved by having uniforms. We`re simply going to delay the problems or drive them deeper,`` said Kent Willis, director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia, which opposes uniforms in public schools as an infringement of the First Amendment`s right of free expression.
SCHOOL UNIFORMS NEGLECT THE REAL ISSUES OF VIOLENCE IN AMERICA
Marylou Tousignant, Staff Writer, The Washington Post, March 01, 1996, Pg. A01, HEADLINE: Trying Uniforms on for Size; Policy Fad May Not Fix Schools // acs-VT2000
Fairfax School Superintendent Robert R. Spillane agrees it`s a simplistic approach. ``In a society that`s shooting each other over designer coats, changing the clothing so we all look like the Communist Chinese solves the immediate problem of people shooting each other over designer clothes but doesn`t solve the basic problem of why people think they can steal and hurt each other,`` he said.
SCHOOL UNIFORM POLICIES ARE MERELY A BAND-AID SOLUTION TO MUCH LARGER PROBLEMS
Amy Mitchell Wilson, Spring, 1998; Brigham Young University Education and Law Journal, Article: Public School Dress Codes: The Constitutional Debate // acs-VT2000
At best, school uniform policies are purely experimental.... The call for school uniforms is not constructive because it is a Band Aid solution to a set of serious problems that defy easy answers... the fact is that there are no empirical studies that show that uniforms consistently produce positive changes in student behavior over the long run. n80
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