text: 1. Cost- each separate, "official" clothing item for the school is at least $50. The cheaper alternative (no school name embroidered) is often not allowed, in order that the schools make money, which I believe is ridiculous, because the point of uniforms is not to give school officials extra pocket money, but to standardize dress and sharpen up the educational environment.\n\n2. There are still other ways to "flaunt" your wealth and thus shun others, so the whole point of the school uniform is defeated. For example, my friend who goes to a private school has 134 pairs of "designer" shoes (no joke) and a matching designer bag for each, since her school has uniforms. In that school, one girl was shunned and isolated so badly for not having a designer bag like Louis Vuitton that she left the school for another.\n\n3. A normal dress code is reasonable, but emphasizing such a trivial issue such as regulation of clothing over more important matters such as actual education as some schools do, is stupid, as a positive-learning environment can still be maintained without uniforms. For example, my school has a dress code, but no uniform and is ranked as one of the top ten highschools in the nation and top 5 International Baccaleureate schools in the world. To add to that we never have any fights or major problems with discrimination due to clothing choice.\n\n4. It partially suppresses a student's potential for creativity, personal expression, etc.