Joevanni Ashlee R.

Sayno

11 (Jade) STEM

Should or Should Not

For decades, uniforms have been the trademark of students, as their identity and a
unifying factor, reducing the social and economic barriers between students which
allows sense of belonging. Should then schools must require students to wear
uniforms?

At a point, schools require uniforms for uniformity of students, for them to easily be
identified what school they are from, also serves for safety purposes. But does
wearing uniform guarantee improvement on students’ academic performance? One
of the child’s right is the right to education, and the policy “No uniform, no entry” as
implemented on various public schools contradicts then the student’s rights for
accessible education There are so many points needed to consider, and it is fine that
uniforms aren’t required because we are after all for a quality education.

Yet, from the latest policy of DepEd, not requiring students to wear uniform is not
enough to address students’ existing problems — not intended to assist in resolving
systemic issues, but rather to allay public frustration. If the DepEd really wants to
reduce the burden on students, then they should stop the rising costs of tuition and
other fees.

Traditionally, institutions require students to buy uniforms as early at their seventh

grade, for high school. Instead of sticking to this, Department of Education must do
something, government should provide financial aid to students to keep them in
school such as to basically providing free uniforms instead, especially that it is a
public school run by the government and well aware that some of them are not that
rich to afford such.

Requiring or not requiring students to wear their uniforms, band-aid and said to be
an unoriginal solution does not necessarily resolve education crisis.