Topic > Essay Why Students Wear Uniforms - 1483

3 Not surprisingly, many of the arguments against uniforms are based on the restriction of liberty upon which the United States was founded. 4Insisting that students still retain their freedom of expression, uniform advocates point out that students possess the ability to accessorize their uniforms. A 2012 peer-reviewed study found that 54 percent of eighth grade students said they could still express their individuality by wearing school uniforms (Andrea Dashiell, parentmap.com). In contrast, a peer-reviewed study by researchers at the University of Nevada, conducted the same year as the aforementioned study, showed that ninety percent of seventh- and eighth-grade students dislike being required to wear a uniform (Claudene Wharton, “College of Education Researchers Conduct Study on Impacts of School Uniforms”). 3Additionally, a 2007 study of public school students in Harford County, MD, found that nearly '88% of students were against uniforms (Madison Park, baltimoresun.com). "They decide to teach us about people like Rosa Parks, Susan B. Anthony and Booker T. Washington... We learn how these people expressed themselves and conquered, and not we can't even express ourselves in the hallways,” Kyler Sumter, a middle school student from Chicago, wrote in the Huffington Post (Kyler Sumter, Huffinton Post). Using clothing to show support for various