Wearing Uniforms at School

Both students and teachers have been discussing an issue for a long time "whether students should wear uniforms or not". Some people claim that students should wear uniforms at primary, secondary and high schools. On the other hand, some people think that it is very unnecessary and a kind of burden for students. If they want, they can show off with other things like their bags, shoes even with their pencils according to these people. To me, wearing a uniform is required for different reasons like economic situation of Turkey, equality among students and maybe the most important reason for psychology of students.

As you all know, the economic situation of Turkey is quite bad. People have many difficulties for making money. Many people are really poor and can only live with the help of some charity foundations. On the contrary, there are some very wealthy people in Turkey, that is, there is a huge economic unbalance among people. So in this kind of country, wearing uniforms at primary, secondary and high schools is a kind of necessity. In schools, there are students from different economic classes. Their life styles are very different. Some students live in huge houses with servants in them. Other poor students may not have even a small shed. It may be seen an exaggeration but even the things they eat are dissimilar. I am absulately sure that especially in schools, students shouldn’t feel these differences. So in this point, we can see that wearing uniforms is necessary for students.

When we think about equality among students, we can say that it is related to economy. That is, the biggest factors that create inequality are economic differences of those students. Of course there are many other factors that affect this problem. Shortly, wearing uniforms shows equality. Students don’t feel themselves superior or inferior to eachother. Whoever they are in their normal lives, poor, wealthy ect. they are students in school and they are totally equal.

Psychological mood is really important for all people. It affects people very much. Students have many psyhological problems especially when they go secondary or high school. In that age, they are in adolescence period. So they are more sensitive and they have really complex psyhological moods. One day they may be very happy, the other day they may cry all day. Especially in that age, wearing uniforms at school is being very crucial. If there were no uniforms, students might humiliate eachother easily because of their wearing styles. Different economic, social status of students become more visible in that case. With the effect of their age, students can’t think logically. They may want their parents to do something impossible for them. Maybe their parents can’t buy costly things for their children because of economic deficiencies. But when they see their children upset, they will be the most unhappy people in the world. So not only the students but also their parents are affected very badly from this situation.

Maybe some people don’t agree with me about this issue. Of course I know the difficulties of wearing uniforms as a student who had worn uniform for long years but I’m living in Turkey. I think the people who know the real meaning of living in Turkey can easily understand the importance of wearing uniforms at school…