We’re all equal but we’re all unique is what we’ve been taught ever since we were young.

Which brings us to an interesting question: should schools require their students to wear uniforms? It’s a topic that has many people split between the almost equal pros and cons.

By having school uniforms everyone is equal in the sense that the competition between who has the nicest clothes is taken away, as is any form of judgment on personal style choice.

Not to mention, you really don’t have to worry about what you’re going to wear that morning because it’s already chosen for you.

But then again, I think uniforms can make people oblivious to differences.

High school is known as a period of transition where people change their style and are introduced to things they never knew existed before.

For example, before I came to high school I never even knew that there was such thing as “emo”. If I had gone through high school with uniforms I may have been ignorant to these stereotypes… which can both be a good and bad thing.

It would be good because without stereotypes, we look at each other in a more equal way, and bad because in life, people do judge you on how you dress or what you look like; as much as we’d like to deny it, it’s true. By erasing that aspect of life in high school, it can set teens back in the way that it may be harder to realize that stereotypes are unfair generalizations of people.

By Grade 12, we’d have spent five years with people who all dress, look, and act different, and while getting to know them we’d realize that their personal style really has nothing to do with their character and the type of person they are.

By leaving high school without going through this transition, we can risk filling the world with highly judgmental and stereotypical young adults, who, in my opinion, wouldn’t be as ready to change the world for the better in terms of accepting and embracing differences.