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Students' freedom is getting more and more emphasized recently. For example, mandatory school uniform policy has been accused of suppressing students' freedom to wear whatever they want. However, I contend that requiring students to wear school uniforms are better policy because school uniform can prevent students from comparing their wealth each other, and students can develop solidarity through school uniform.
First, school uniform can conceal the wealth gap between students. If everyone wears the same clothes, it is not easy to recognize whether the students' family are affluent or not. This is important because teenagers tend to estrange or split each other by their wealth. To give my example, I graduated from boarding high school where no one was required to wear school uniform except when attending some ceremonies. After several months at the school, I could realize whose family is rich and who is not by looking their outfits. In addition, I've seen the growing distant between the students who had rich background and students who had not. This was something that I couldn't experience when I attended middle school with a school uniform everyday, which everyone had got along each other regardless of their background.
Second, school uniform can grow students' solidarity. Solidarity is important because in a democratic society, where everyone should cooperate each other to make society develop, solidarity is indeed helpful. School uniform surely makes anyone feel like they are the member of the school, and school is something special to them. For example, even though I had graduated from middle school long time ago, whenever I see students wearing school uniform of my middle school, I feel deep proud and affinity toward them because inside my heart I still miss my middle school time. Is short, school uniform is not just a mere uniform, but it is something special that stimulates my solidarity.
In conclusion, I believe that mandatory school uniform policy is better because students don't compare the wealth of each other when they wear same clothes, and students' solidarity can be cultivated through school uniform. Although making everyone wear the same clothes seem oppressive, I believe it has more positive effects than it seems to be.
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