Advantages and disadvantages school uniforms
Some think school uniforms are just remains of the old times. To say that is an understatement, because they are still used in schools, especially those elite ones. Students and teachers have different views on that case.
The first advantage of school uniforms is building the prestige of a school. School uniforms are a specific sign of the renown of a school and all the better ones have them, so it must mean something. Other benefit is improvment of the looks of students, well designed uniforms have good aesthetic qualities. Wearing such clothing is nothing to be ashamed of. Alike uniforms make identifing pupils of one school easier and that can proove crucial on different types of school excursions or conferences and contests. And if the scool provides uniforms there will be no problems for those in worse financial condition. That is important, becouse now good schools are opened for everybody and everybody wants to gain from them.
But the idea of school uniforms also has its opponents and they point to several disadvantages. The first of them is limiting freedom of students. It is clear that not eveybody wants to be restricted just to one piece of clothing for the whole year. Pupils have a very vivid imagination and can br developed by dressing themselfs in extraordinary clothing. They may once become famous fashion designers. Sometimes uniforms are just hideous, they are all grey and featureless. Only a plain and unostentatious would like to show up in school in one of those. In some cases students must obtain a uniform by themselfs and then they simple cannot be equal. Poorer students will singled out and that surely is not a good way to make learning less stressful.
School uniforms are liked by some and hated by others. Both sides of the barricade have their rights and all that jazz. You have to deecide on which side are you.
aesthetic - connected with sb's sense of beauty- estetyczny
understatement - a statement saying that sb or sth is less important that it really is - umniejszanie
unostentatious- not showing wealth, importance, etc. very openly in order to attract attention - nieostentacyjny
single sb out - to give special attention or treatment to one person - wyróżniać
all that jazz - similar things - podobne rzeczy, sprawy