Imagine starting off your day like any other: you wake up, get dressed, brush your

teeth, etc. You arrive at

school and walk through the double doors into a crowded hallway. Like yesterday and every day before,

you look around and everyone is wearing the same thing; you can’t even distinguish between your

classmates. This is the life of children who have to wear uniforms to school day-in and day-out. Public

schools shouldn’t have uniforms because it takes away the ability to express yourself with you

clothing choices. Besides school uniforms are expensive, dull, and lack individuality.

When students wake up in the morning they look forward to being able to pick out what they get to wear

for the day. My sister had to wear a uniform to school for two years until she changed school; she

absolutely hated it, she was always craving to be different. I know some people think that uniforms

promote equality, but what about individuality? Our school years are the most critical time of our lives;

it’s when we discover who we are as a person. When you have to wear uniforms you aren’t given much of

a chance to express yourself amongst your peers, which in turn can result in the child never having the

courage to be whom they want to be.

Many people believe that the color of a room can have an impact on your mood. Well that’s also true with

the color of clothing. Most uniforms are gray, a dark and dull color. If the uniforms are dull then in turn

school will be dull. According to an article on askville.amazon.com “some color specialists think it’s also

about ambiguity and indecision.” In short, gray can be affiliated with doubt and indecisiveness. I know

it’s “just a color”, but it’s a color every student has to see every day for the rest of their schooling. Would

you like to just see gray for the rest of your life? Grays not a happy color, so when students have to go to