Robert College Dress Code Research Paper

Should RC Have A Strict Formal Uniform Policy

Robert College praises diversity. Robert College celebrates differences. Robert College motivates to think outside the box. Robert College is different than other schools and loves being so. And Rc student is always encouraged to highlight his/her differences. How can a school like this, let go of its 150 year old principles by forcing students to look the same? Adapting a strict formal uniform policy would be rejecting some very important values of RC. A school with a "Diversity Week" cannot force students to dress the same and deprive them from the easiest opportunity to show and reflect diffeences. Therefore, Robert College should not have a strict fromal uniform policy. Robert College is known

Robert College's dress code is business-casual which means students dress in a semi-formal way. There are many different clothing options like: shirts, O-neck sweaters, V-neck sweaters, turtleneck sweaters, fabric pants and so on. All these are very formal-looking clothes and they are enough to teach students how to dress in a formal way. Gardener says that teens don't always have a good sense of what is proper attire and what is not. He also states that having a dress code will help them get used to dressing proper and it will be a lot easier to adapt to work life (Gardener). Forcing students to wear that one uniform is giving fish, whereas, letting them decide what they wear within certain limitatioons in is teaching them how to fish. If RC made students wear the same formal uniform everyday, it wouldn't ready students to work-life. Obviously, these students won't be wearing their school uniform to work. they would only know the same boring shirt and they'll have no idea ow to make their wardrobe to fit the formal standarts of work. The dress code that RC has right now, is a great one to let students adapt to wearing formal clothes (of their own choice) and ready them to work life, therefore it would be totally nonsense to force students to wear formal uniforms instead of letting them learn how to dress

According to an article written by Dr. Alan Hilfer, a child psychologist, in January 2012, the decrease in violence doesn't have much to do with school uniforms, it is more likely that violence rate had more to do with discussion of violence and school uniforms, it is more likely that violence rate more to do with discussion of violence and school awareness, (Kokemuller). While they make thses surveys and experiments, they make students more aware of violence and obviously, violence becomes a highly-discussed matter. Just like Kokemuller and Dr. Hilfer agrees, forcing students to wear the same thing has little to do with the dropping violence rates therefore the damage uniforms will do to students' individuality and learning, outweights its so-called good