School uniforms: strength in familiarity?
School uniforms could be turning into the new craze in Niagara County, particularly within the Niagara Falls City School District.
The Niagara Charter School in Wheatfield started things off in August 2006, when the new school had their kids wear gray Polo shirts with the school's name and logo.
Then Niagara Falls jumped on the bandwagon.
That September, Henry J. Kalfas Magnet School pupils began wearing blue Polo shirts of the same ilk. In September 2007, the new Niagara Street Elementary School followed suit and this September, Geraldine J. Mann Elementary School will do the same.
In January, administrators at the LaSalle Preparatory School hope to start up a voluntary uniform program and Gaskill Preparatory School may do the same in September 2009.
Other districts are considering uniforms, too. The Starpoint Central School District in Pendleton, for instance, will look into the possibility during the coming school year, probably for elementary students.
Many parents feel uniforms are practical and inexpensive in hard economic times, and make pupils more unified as a group and focused on their studies.
What do you think?
— Paul Westmoore
