We all remember that first morning when we are up before the alarm goes off jumping out of bed filled with so much excitement with your eyes focused on the most significant part of moving into a new and bigger year. After finishing the quickest breakfast you’ve ever had, rushing upstairs to embrace a completely new garment: skirt or trousers, a sparkling new shirts, tights and lastly the most exciting part of putting the new tie and a glazing blazer which all makes you feel like you finally belong. The first day at school is very important.
A lot of pressure is put on you the way you look but the pressure gets lighter when you walk down those stairs to take pieces of advice from parents and older siblings. The long-lasting memorable photographs being taken which makes the day and being in that uniform with the new look on your face which just makes your parents happy and proud. We wear uniforms for a variety of reasons. Most importantly, uniforms help us to create a strong sense of community, everyone wants feel like they belong to a certain community, we would never want to be by ourselves would we?
Whenever you watch public events that involves two or more people or a group of people that represent a team, there is always something that makes them standout from other groups or the people around them. And that’s uniform. For example, we would always recognise police officers, nurses or doctors immediately we see them simply because of their uniform and how unique it is because of the way it represents them.
Secondly, uniforms also create a high sense of belonging, it also helps build a sense of pride and identity with all these senses being brought together, we all turn to feel like we fit in with people around us and we also become more comfortable. Without uniforms, the school community will be ruined and the people who are part of it will become fragile. A school without uniform is equivalent to an unsafe and environment and an environment of low self-esteem. Having no one to go to in case of an accident because you can’t recognise anyone and you don’t feel like you belong.
Who would you go to in need emotional or mental support? Uniforms helps us to understand our roles within a society, but sometimes, we all appear differently. Uniforms help us to stand our position in the world helping to better the world. Uniforms help eradicate problems hinted on before. Despite the issues stated earlier which could occur if a school had no uniforms, uniforms help dissolve certain issues such as bullying, which is mostly caused by looks and social status.
Probably the cry of most teenagers on a non-school uniform day is ” I have nothing to wear” especially in times like this where we live in a community where teenagers feel like our ridiculous expensive trainers now seem old fashioned, our favourite t-shirts are what we’ve become tired of and our jeans are no longer expensive enough. All these problems are solved when we wear uniforms, instead of being isolated and judged by what we wear or how we look.
We are brought together by having a common appearance like pride of lions, we support and protect those whom we work together with in order to travel the long distance towards the success which lay ahead in future. The sense of driving towards success, a community where success is no accident. Uniforms create a sense of focus which will be missing without it most of you may argue and try to compare to other school that don’t wear uniforms but it’s fascinating how unaware you are of the fact that they look up to you and try to amend their torn shirts which is mean to be uniform just to look as elegant as you do.
Our uniforms help create a sense of focus on our learning more than dress sense and outward appearance, they help us focus on future comings and not present situations, they help us focus on what’s important not irrelevant. Therefore, in the future when you walk elegantly down the stairs with your family’s eyes soaked with tears of joy and pride, be it a new suit for a dominant job, or a t-shirt with a national logo imprinted on it or your new school uniform. It should make you feel like you represent a symbol of pride, success and a standard quantity of your achievement. Thank you for listening!
