Plaid’s Out, Again, as Schools Give Up Requiring Uniforms
This is a simple case of parents and kids not buying into the program. Or more to the point, it’s the old pattern of affluent suburban parents thinking they don’t need to follow the same rules as everyone else and being unwilling or unable to tell their kids “no” when it comes to simple behavior rules.
“But I think uniforms have peaked for now. If there are a couple of school shootings tomorrow, we may see it again. But my sense is that right now people are focused on larger issues.”
What’s a larger issue than safety or community or basic civics/citizenship? And why will take school shootings to bring that back into focus?