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I support it for all the reasons I mentioned on a previous page of this thread.
All children from age 5-16 are required by national compulsary law in the United Kingdom to wear smart school uniforms and also P.E. kit uniforms duing P.E. lessons too;- whether they attend a public school (which means an elite and aristocratic private school in the UK,) a state school, an independent school, a private school, a Church of England school, a Grammar School (for intelligent children of any background who pass their 11+ exams at age eleven and academically earn their places there,) a boys school, a girls school, infant (primary) school, junior school, secondary/senior school, or an academy.
English primary school pupils wearing their school uniforms.
Devonshire secondary school pupils in south-west England in their school uniformsIt is difficult to trace the origins of the uniform as there is no comprehensive written history, but rather a variety of known influences.
School uniforms are believed to be a practice which dates to the 16th century in the United Kingdom. It is believed that the Christ Hospital School in London in 1552 was the first school to use a school uniform.
The earliest documented proof of institutionalised use of a standard academic dress dates back to 1222 when the then Archbishop of Canterbury ordered the wearing of the cappa clausa.
This monastic and academic practice evolved into collegiate uniforms in England, particularly in charity schools where uniform dress was often provided for poor children. Universities, primary schools and secondary schools used uniforms as a marker of class and status. Although school uniforms can often be considered conservative and old-fashioned, uniforms in recent years have changed as societal dress codes have changed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_uniform
Cornish junior school pupils in the school P.E. kits.
Cornish secondary school pupils
Welsh school pupils
Manx school pupils (from the Celtic Isle of Man, a Crown Dependancy island which still has a 1000 year old unique Viking-style parliament with traditional Viking customs on their island.)
Scottish secondary (senior) school pupils
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_uniformIn the United States, a movement toward using uniforms in state schools began when Bill Clinton addressed it in the 1996 State of the Union, saying: "If it means that teenagers will stop killing each other over designer jackets, then our public schools should be able to require their students to wear uniforms."
As of 1998 approximately 25% of all U.S. public elementary, middle and junior high schools had adopted a uniform policy or were considering a policy, and two thirds were implemented between 1995 and 1997.
Irish school students wearing smart uniforms
Isle of Wight school pupils in uniforms
Students in the English-French speaking Channel Island, Crown Dependancy, and Bailiwick of Jersey
School uniforms at Blancheland College in the Channel Island and Crown Dependancy and Bailiwick of Guernsey.
Etonians (students at the elite public school of Eton in England, where Prince William, Royalty, Conservative (Tory) politicians, etc, studied.)
Etonians wearing their uniforms.A public school in England and Wales is an older, student-selective, fee-charging, independent secondary school which caters primarily for children aged between 11 or 13 and 18.
The term "public" should not be misunderstood to mean that these schools are part of the public sector (that is, funded by the government's taxation of the public); they are in fact part of the private sector. However in Scotland, where a state-funded education system began roughly 300 years prior to England's, the term "public school" is used in a different sense than in England—in the sense of a school administered by the local government to serve the children of that area.
Traditionally, public schools were all-male boarding schools, although most now allow day pupils, and many have become either partially or fully co-educational.
Public schools emerged from charity schools established to educate poor scholars, the term "public" being used to indicate that access to them was not restricted on the basis of religion, occupation, or home location, and that they were subject to public management or control, in contrast to private schools which were run for the personal profit of the proprietors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public...nited_Kingdom)
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