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^The school district in Long Beach, CA was the first in the country to make uniforms mandatory for all students in its elementary and middle schools in 1994. The number of fights did decline there by over 50 percent in the first year, but so did the number of fights in the neighboring Los Angeles, although schools Los Angeles there did not adopt a uniform policy ^However, sociologists David Brunsma and Kerry Rockquemore looked at the effect of uniforms on students in a 1998 paper published in the Journal of Education Research and found that uniforms actually had a negative effect on academic achievement
 * The NPD Group, a market research company in New York, estimated that parents spent $900 million on uniforms for elementary school children in 1998
 * That comes out to about 7 percent of the total amount spent on children's clothing and this number has likely risen since then

http://kids.lovetoknow.com/wiki/Pros_and_Cons_of_School_Uniforms

^Experts believe that children need to feel comfortable in order to maximize learning, and that uniforms can therefore deter academic success ^Many educators and experts believe that, although in theory uniforms should improve academic, behavioral, and social outcomes, in reality they do not ^These experts argue that the studies of schools who initiate uniforms do not report improvement in any of these areas; therefore, if the desired outcomes are not reached, there is no valid reason to standardize student dress
 * Self-expression is an important part of child development and some experts believe that curbing it with uniforms can be detrimental to a child
 * Some experts believe it is not in the best interest of the child to try to control socialization which is a part of human nature
 * They believe that such use of school uniforms does not prepare children for the real world, in which they will continue to be judged by appearances

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