School uniforms

     School uniforms – Mobile prisons

School uniforms have become an important subject of debate today. This is because many children and their parents complain against this system which has been in practice in our country right from the day our ancestors established schools. School uniforms are mobile prisons, prisons that let you do everything, but never let you go free. Uniforms were purposefully brought in to establish equality among children. But, is it necessary to ensure this equality with full hand shirts that hamper the movement of your hands, socks that make your skin frail, shoe that induces itching and tie that puffs up heat within your body? Educational institutions must understand that such uniform practices are practically good for colder countries and not for countries that lie in the tropics and sub-tropics like that of ours. I don’t think schools have met the real necessity for uniforms. In schools today, entering the campus with no proper uniform is a crime. Moreover, random checking to catch all those who come without proper uniform happens in schools frequently. Such children are punished.  Now-a-days, uniforms have become an integral component of ’Discipline’. He who doesn’t make it to the school with proper uniform is ’Indisciplined’. Schools have also wrongly started thinking that uniforms make children smart. Uniforms really aren’t a bad idea. But the uniform that we wear matters. If Indian schools issue uniforms without ties, socks, shoes and full hand shirts, uniforms will have their real necessity satisfied. Indian children look like perfect Indians just with a shirt and a pant. It’s not necessary to add English components to show ourselves modernized and that’s not what modernization actually means.