I wore uniforms from 4th through 8th grade and I hated them.
Come on! Instead of trying to make kids all wear the same thing so they don’t tease each other, why not address the teasing itself when they’re young? Because people like the easy way out?
Dress codes, fine. But uniforms, no way.
I like college now. I can go to class in my jammies and no one would say anything. (And I commute).
For junior and senior high school I wore uniform dress: khaki slacks, white shirt, black tie (with red stripes if you were on the honor roll) during 2nd and 3rd quarter and navy blue blazer. I wasn’t thrilled with it, but didn’t get overwrought about it either.
One day several neckties were burned in protest.
The gals could wear red jumpers with white blouses or, if in upper school and on the honor roll, pastel blue jumpers (with white blouse). Their other option was a plaid skirt (same plaid for everyone) and the ever present white blouse.
For guys, hair had to be tapered on the back (not blocked), could not touch your ears or your collar and had to be two fingers above your eyebrows when the coach pulled it straight down (depending on who your dad was). I got booted temporarily in 1969 and finally in 1970 for hair violations (it probably didn’t help that I had the honor of being the first student ever to be caught smoking on campus - they didn’t even have a policy and so I didn’t even get a detention hall; the quickly established policy made it an expulsion offense and they shipped out several soon thereafter).
Life was different then. I think the gals did pay some attention to what sort of accessories everybody might be wearing, but there just wasn’t the brand, or designer, consciousness that developed later. I’m not sure that wearing uniforms made us better teen terrors, or that it even got us brownie points with the cops.
Funny thing is I wore khaki slacks and a white dress shirt to work today (as usual).
In K-5th grade, I attended an ACE school. Anyone else familiar with that abomination? Super conservative, it was an offshoot of a Baptist church. The church had some kind of wierd contract with each member that they would not wear pants, attend movies, etc. Uniform consisted of navy blue pants, dress shirt that had to be the right color for the right day: M-Red, T-White, W-Blue, Th-White, F-Red or White w/ pinstripes. Jackets and ties were required for morning devotion, but everyone ditched them afterwards. I remember when the pinstripe option was added for Friday, the school officials made it sound like we were being granted some great freedom. Girls had to wear a navy blue jumper with a similar color code for their blouses, but I don’t recall what it was. Gym clothes were, of course, navy blue. I don’t even like navy blue as a color any more.
For 6-11 grade, it was another Xian school. Wednesdays were “chapel day,” where we had to wear dressy attire, including a tie. The rest of the time, it was basically no shorts, no T-shirts, button-down shirts must be tucked in, and of course, the obligatory short hair on guys.
In 12th grade, I went to a Satanic (public) school. My experience with the aforementioned Xian schools is why I oppose school choice vouchers vehemently. They had virtually no academic merit whatsoever
Tzel, I went to an ACE school, too. I’m still not over that trauma. Did you sit in those desks that faced the walls, with the dividers on every side, so you could not see or talk to anyone? No kidding folks, that’s what we had, if we needed to ask permission to anything, we had to put a little flag in a hole in one of the dividers and wait for someone to come to us.
Grrr…can you imagine having to sit facing the wall all day, with only a few breaks to get some human interaction? I think this explains a lot about the enigma that is tatertot. 
Tzel, if there are any more like us on board, we have got to start a support group or something. Down with ACE (and Cristi, and Pudge…)
I went to public school so no uniforms, but 2 of our 3 kids went to/go to private school. An extremely strict (ie Nazi) dress code, but no uniforms. To my shock both kids told me they would welcome uniforms because it would make things easier about what to wear to school. I really didn’t expect to hear that from them. I for one like the idea of uniforms because I hate having to decide what to wear everyday myself. Maybe we all should wear uniforms.
Anyone ever have Jean Days at a uniform wearing school?
My school got pretty lax by the time my sis graduated…they could just wear plain blue skirts and dress shorts with sneakers…sigh
My Public school had no dress code. I had my own uniform. Pocket tee-shirt, jeans with a black belt, work boots. Four years of this. it was part of my personality. I still dress like this. Comfort over style. MTS
Oh yes. We each had our little cubicle. Three times a day we would hear, “Straighten your offices for break,” then we would all stand in front of our desks while our “Supervisor” whined about the latest crime that one of us young hooligans had committed. Then we went outside to play our favorite game: forts. The “forts” consisted of clearings in the woods which various groups controlled. We armed ourselves with sticks and fought for territory, often inflicting serious wounds on one another. Granted, that was fun. Gym class was a joke. Once, the gym class was taught by an older student, and we stood in a circle and passed around a soccer ball and a softball. I’m not kidding. He said it was hard for our hands to get used to holding the big soccer ball, then the small softball. That was gym. I repeat: I’m NOT kidding.
I hated the comic strip characters. Christi Lovejoy is the only full name I can remember. There was Ace, Reginald, Pudge (the fat one), and a couple of red haired girls with the last name of Mercy.
Oh yeah, it took me at least until my senior year in high school to make up for the social skills I was never able to learn while going to my ACE school. In fact, I still don’t think I’ve ever really made up for it.