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School uniforms were a big issue at the time I wrote this. I embarked on this storyline thinking the issue had a lot of comic potential, but I don't think I really knew how to write my way back out of it, and I didn't really want to permanently alter my character designs... I think it worked out okay, but it was a learning experience.

What they never mention is that private schools, which for the most part, have a uniform policy havn't curbed bullying as much as we'd like to think. Bullying amoung girls has never been out there in the open as much as it has been for boys, which now due to an awful attitude toward physical fights has become almost equal in execution, that is boys too will result to the same tactics as girls, using gossip and words. In other words its a waste of money and unless paid for by the public schools is just a money drain for the families who don't have a choice of where their children go to school.

As for uniforms for the rest of the school period, they probably have no real value other than to identify you as a student at X school.

This is not to say there are no good reasons to have dress codes in school. For one thing, years ago I saw a PBS documentary about how a man became the principal of an "out-of-control" school in a ghetto area of Chicago, and the first thing he did to restore order was to get the students to take off their hats in class. Not an arbitrary rule; hats were gang affiliation symbols in that neighborhood.