Sorry, School Uniforms Just Don't Work

School uniforms have slowly started to take over the public school system with support from politicians, school administrators, and parents alike, for reasons varying from peer acceptance to being more financially affordable. Yet uniforms are inaccurately being toted as a cure-all, when in fact, they're just a placebo for many parent's concerns with our nation's failing public school system.

One of the biggest reason uniforms have been proposed and implimented in many school districts is because of the belief that by making students wear all one type of clothing that it'll make the "dangerous outside element" easier to spot, and thus keep them out of schools. What's tragic about this is that it's a false sense of security where there should be none. It might make an adult in the crowd stand out more, but when you're dealing with elementary school kids, anyone about a certain height is going to stand out. And it poses no problem for gang members, or other school-aged trouble makers because obtaining a school uniform is as simple a trip to the store. Thus, it's actually making it easier for someone who looks like they're school-aged to slip on campus, commit a crime, and leave without being noticed because they just blend in with the crowd. The only solution to better security on campus is for administrators to build trust with students from all walks of life so that they know they have someone they can talk with as the students are always the first ones to know what's happening on their campus.