Micheal Gibson

                        `                                        10 Radford drive

                                                                Braunstone Leicester

                                                                LE3 3DR

                                                                15/01/2004

Bosworth Community College

Leicester Lane

Desford

Leicestershire

LE9 9JL

Dear Mr. Annan

                I wish to complain about your recent decision to impose an embarrassing school uniform upon the students of Bosworth College, which is supposed to be a school where expression is encouraged. Yet imposing a school uniform will shatter the students self expression. As a student of the college I am shocked at the thought of being told what to wear. Isn’t enough that we are told what to do, what not to do, where to go, and when to go, but making the students wear what they are told to will induce more people trying to revolt against the school.

        Yes I understand the arguments for a uniform: it reduces discrimination, gives students less things to worry about, it gives people a sense of unity and equality to the students. I also know that 83% of parents prefer uniform because it is smarter and cheaper then the designer clothes the students always want to wear, and is more suitable and sensible then the low cut, revealing clothes that the teenage girls want to wear and the over expensive clothes which have a brand name plastered over them all what the teenage lads want to wear all the time. The uniforms would make students look more organised especially to the teachers, and would give the students an identity, which would be recognised out of school and make the students more identifiable if they are truanting during lesson time.

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        But in reality the majority of students in schools around Britain are against school uniform and it’s the students that should decide if they want a uniform or not, the parents don’t have to go around all day in them, neither do the teachers of governors but the students, and they are the ones who don’t want a uniform. Uniforms may reduce discrimination but it doesn’t stop it, students will still have the discrimination out of school, and also in school like “your bag isn’t from a designer shop” or “your shoes are not of a trendy brand”. Also ...

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