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Do you think school uniforms are a form of authoritarianism? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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Seems very much like indoctrination to get kids to "fall in line" and enforced conformity, to try to remove independent thinking.

I've always hated the idea of that. What do you think about it?

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[–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Also in the US is the issue that school uniforms are universally a private school thing

As a non-American who watched The Wire, I know that is not true. So I looked it up and apparently 19% of US public schools use school uniforms (risen from 3% in the mid 1990s). Source: https://www.uniformmarket.com/statistics/school-uniform-statistics

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    This makes sense as I was in school before 2010, so my experience would've been from before more schools started adopting them. And my dad would've probably been in school in the 50s, so when he was wearing a school uniform with a tie everyday, it was absolutely a rich private school thing.

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