Dress Codes and School Uniforms: Dress for Success

Kendrey, your humble servant is on your side.  He follows a book entitled "Dress for Success" in his own life.  It goes this way.  Most people will never talk to you, so the only way they know, evaluate you is by your appearance.  Therefore, it is important to learn how to convey the right image.  This writer believes the purpose of education is to prepare students to go to work.  Work, as a rule, has a dress code; it is reasonable to teach students to respect dress codes as part of their conditioning for work.  Of course, you have all kinds of psycho-babble about letting folks express themselves and so for and so on.  School uniforms get this writer's vote.  He has worked as a teacher in an elite prep school in Canada where such uniforms were common.  The only challenge might be to provide some funding help for poor folks to get the uniforms.  Otherwise, "dress for success!"  Yes, I know, I am totally out of step with the times; as our economy crashes, we are going to get a reality check about the purpose of education good and hard, and it is not to provide a prolonged adolescence.  Dr. Rux