Argumentation

What Should Students Wear?
It’s easy to see people wearing uniforms everywhere when we walk on the streets. They could be McDonald’s clerks, insurance company’s employees and students. It’s always a controversial issue especially for students that students should wear uniforms or leisure wears to school. In Taiwan, students are supposed to wear uniforms. However, as time goes by, some students doubt why they must wear uniforms but not their own leisure wear.
It’s quite a pity for the students who have pretty clothes in their closet. They’re forced to wear the same uniforms as other students. “Why not wear leisure wears to school?” they ask. Students should have the right to choose what they want to wear. Compared with uniforms, it’s much more variable and it looks livelier to wear leisure wears, because students can match up their clothes colors by themselves and cultivate their sense of beauty. However, I think they focus on a wrong point, because the most important duty for student is going to school and concentrate on their studies. They should not spend too much time worrying what they wear and hesitating in front of their mirrors.
There is another advantage of wearing leisure wears to school: students don’t have to face the problem of wearing too light or too heavy when the season changes, and there won’t be any problem about the uniform’s size. Nevertheless, there are some advantages of wearing uniforms that can’t be substituted by wearing leisure wears. That’s why uniform means everybody’s the same. Uniforms can unite students as a group. It provides student with the chance to learn to live in a group.
Uniform is a symbol of school. With uniforms, school can be a much safer place because it’s much easier to recognize strangers in the school and thus ensure the security of students. If there was any student who met accidents outside the school, through the uniform of the student, people can inform the school sooner and the school can help the student much sooner. The much safer schools are, the more willing students are to go to school.
It’s human’s nature to compare each other’s appearance no matter when and where you are. If students wear leisure wears to school, it would be easy for students to recognize whose family is rich and whose is poor, and no doubt the schools would become a place for students to compete with each other, and then may become discrimination and break the friendship between students. With uniforms, there won’t be this problem anymore. Students’ parents won’t suffer from the demands from children to buy expensive clothes or accessories, and school can spend more time on teaching instead of students’ appearance.
To sum up, uniform plays an important role for students in the adolescence from many aspects. It can unite students together, share their honor together and dress the same, and make them feel they’re united together. Wearing uniforms, is the first step to learn to live in a group.