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School Uniforms
School uniforms have been around for over a century in the private school sector of the United States. In the 1980s school officials in California began considering mandatory school uniforms in public schools as a way of decreasing gang related violence. The ensuing debate gained momentum in January of 1996 when President Clinton endorsed the idea in his State of the Union Address. The issue of requiring school uniforms in public schools is still a heated debate today.
Supporters credit the use of school uniforms as one factor in the reduction of the amount of violence occurring in schools. "A February 1996 survey by the National Association of Secondary School Principals found that 70% of middle and high school principals believed that uniforms reduced the number of discipline problems and violent incidents in school" ("Uniforms Rule"). "In Long Beach, California, where the nation's first mandatory school uniform policy was implemented in the district's......

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