re: #267 Belafon

I grew up in the 70s and 80s with no dress code. My high school graduating class pulled in the most scholarship money ever at the time, and that still held when my sister graduated five years later.

I haven’t seen a lot of need for uniforms in schools (couldn’t stand them in the military). A lot of people who I talk to like uniforms not because they minimize fashion arguments, but because it’s another way to punish kids (and, as pointed out in Harry Potter, uniforms don’t keep the poor from being picked on by the rich about clothes).

It may depend on the community in which you lived. My sister taught in schools with diverse populations and in inner city schools. When I suggested to her that attire doesn’t matter — after all those of us in computer-related fields have been notorious for our support of the most casual garments , she always retorts that she was there and I wasn’t.