Tina Brescanu's Blog - Posts Tagged "diversity"
Children's right to body autonomy
School uniform is part of territorial thinking. School uniform highlights distance to others, it supports division.Enforced dress code is a form of bullying, not protection against bullying.
School is the biggest bully. The school uniform is also gender discrimination (skirt for girls, tie and shirt for boys) and impeachment of human right. Clothes are a form of language, visual language.
Clothes have to fit body type, personality and style, not school policy. School uniform is a band aid for social injustice, differences in income still remains. We don’t solve poverty with an enforced dress code.
School uniforms slow development of creative talent, independent thinking and personality. Fashion is self expression, always. Having your own style is as important as being yourself, they go hand in hand. A school uniform robs young people of their identity. We explore through fashion, we construct and deconstruct ourselves, the visible parts of self through fashion as a form of self-expression.
All children and young people should be allowed to express themselves in whatever way make them feel comfortable being who they are. A school uniform isolates students from their real selves, they have to cope with being someone else both mentally and physically during school time, hiding behind masks and in an enforced uniform.
School uniforms also slows transition to adulthood as clothes are part of experimenting with identity, finding out who you are, who you want to be. Strict behaviour policies also create rebels. We teach children about the freedom of our country, but we force them to wear uniforms, often in drab colours and unflattering cuts, instead of choosing what they want.
If one doesn’t have what someone else have; envy is a healthy response but devaluing oneself because of clothes shows a shocking disregard of one’s true value. Young people learn more about themselves by choosing their own clothing than by being forced to wear a school uniform.
School is the biggest bully. The school uniform is also gender discrimination (skirt for girls, tie and shirt for boys) and impeachment of human right. Clothes are a form of language, visual language.
Clothes have to fit body type, personality and style, not school policy. School uniform is a band aid for social injustice, differences in income still remains. We don’t solve poverty with an enforced dress code.
School uniforms slow development of creative talent, independent thinking and personality. Fashion is self expression, always. Having your own style is as important as being yourself, they go hand in hand. A school uniform robs young people of their identity. We explore through fashion, we construct and deconstruct ourselves, the visible parts of self through fashion as a form of self-expression.
All children and young people should be allowed to express themselves in whatever way make them feel comfortable being who they are. A school uniform isolates students from their real selves, they have to cope with being someone else both mentally and physically during school time, hiding behind masks and in an enforced uniform.
School uniforms also slows transition to adulthood as clothes are part of experimenting with identity, finding out who you are, who you want to be. Strict behaviour policies also create rebels. We teach children about the freedom of our country, but we force them to wear uniforms, often in drab colours and unflattering cuts, instead of choosing what they want.
If one doesn’t have what someone else have; envy is a healthy response but devaluing oneself because of clothes shows a shocking disregard of one’s true value. Young people learn more about themselves by choosing their own clothing than by being forced to wear a school uniform.
