• z00s@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Education is, unironically, the best tool to combat inequality, but the effect only kicks in after the students have finished school.

    In the meantime, uniforms cut down on bullying. What else do you want them to do? They don’t have a magic wand, nor do they have magic money to hand out to struggling parents.

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      In the meantime, uniforms cut down on bullying.

      Do they? I don’t think so, people are just gonna get bullied with different “reasons”, it’s not really about the clothes after all.

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        I never saw someone got bullied for their clothes in my environment.

        But kids got bullied for wearing glasses, let’s hope they ban those then. Also, better to not let kids with weird accents in school. Wouldn’t want to provoke the bullies.

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          So you got rid of one reason to bully, so bullies shifted to other stuff. How does this help now? Are there some studies, that prove school uniforms lead to quantitative less bullying? If yes, I would be interested in that.

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            Maybe we should seriously address the issues of the individual bullies. Instead of just banning them from school for a week. And teach the teachers how to do that. Maybe we should start creating a public school system that’s able to take care of the kids.

            I am sure there are quite a lot of teachers with good ideas, maybe the lawmakers should listen to them. Although mandatory uniforms likely might turn out as being cheaper, especially when the parents have to pay for them equally, whether they’re rich or poor.

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              Well you sound like you know more than all those other people, why don’t you let them know about your expertise?

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          In addition to the ambivalence of wearers’ feelings, there are mixed data on the impact of uniform on bullying.

          Doesn’t sound like concrete evidence to me

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          If someone changed their mind after reading a single study, you could get them to believe anything.

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            That’s because you’re cherry picking.

            “The literature identified indicates that uniforms have no direct impact on academic performance, yet directly impact physical and psychological health.”

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            That’s because you’re cherry picking.

            “The literature identified indicates that uniforms have no direct impact on academic performance, yet directly impact physical and psychological health.”

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            And yet most people on Lemmy base their beliefs on a single online article

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                  8 months ago

                  Your feelings don’t qualify as disproof, chum.

                  Look up the evidence yourself. No need to show the world how bitter you are that a teacher once gave you a detention for being insufferable.

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      There is enough magic money to distribute if France (and every other country) would tax the rich.

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      That’s not even true. Children can differentiate between the cheap and expensive uniforms

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        Aren’t they provided by the school? Or can you have a super high class tailor make you a uniform? I have no idea about school uniforms.

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      Maybe instead of throwing money for uniforms it could be used to hire teachers, repair the building, or buy furnitures? Just a couple of ideas you know…

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        You’re missing the point. None of those things would help poor kids not appear poor and get bullied.

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        Do the whole pay for the uniforms? Here in Australia parents do, and it’s ridiculously expensive.

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          There’s no good option for it : either the parents pay for the uniform and it’s a tax fir the poors, or the government pay for it and the money would be far better spent on teachers and stuff.

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          Ridiculously expensive? I’m in Australia too, how much do you think they cost?

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            Primary is affordable cause you just go into bigw

            Secondary, the blazer alone is like $400 and there’s only one store where you can get it. Eventually he’ll lose it and we’ll have a big discussion about money.

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                Mate, welcome to port Melbourne college. I may be off with the exact number on the blazer but a basic set of uniform with 3 shirts, pants an single blazer was close to 1k . Nitpick as much as you want but I have the receipts and they are hurtful.

                Add to that a laptop, because port Melbourne primary used iPad but nooo, not enough for college.