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Originally Posted by Macie Lightfoot

I had this tab open for a while but never responded to it bc busy week but in defense of Jersey (?!?!), this is DEFINITELY a cultural thing. As another American, the idea of wearing a uniform to school is such a foreign concept if you go to a public school. A lot of the pro-uniform arguments about how it takes so much time to pick out an outfit to wear and how uniforms reduce bullying don't really apply in the US. American schoolchildren have kinda outgrown traditional schoolyard bullying and it's mostly done as cyberbullying through Instagram and whatever other social media platforms there are now, and nobody really gives a **** what anybody wears whether it be labels (I don't think I knew what a label was when I was in high school tbh), athletic clothes, jeans, anything. I just don't see the purpose of school uniforms as an American who went through public school his whole life and never had to deal with uniforms

Nobody's disputed that I don't think. Feelings towards uniforms will be dependent on if you grew up with it as a norm or not, I agree.

The point I addressed was the reason he used to explain how uniforms negatively impact students. Which I found baseless.

It's one thing saying "I don't like uniforms" or "I don't think we should have them" quite another to say "Uniforms shouldn't be the norm as they negatively impact on students" with nothing to back up the claim.