Let me read The Divine Comedy in peace!
 

I was lucky enough that my school didn't have uniforms, but they didn't allow drinks either*, except for a few rare teachers who screwed the rules. Although personally I can't really see these things negatively affecting the learning experience to a large degree, I'm opposed to the rules-obsessed/adults-in-charge nature of schools for a few reasons. Yeah, there are some really good teachers, but there are some real douchebag ones too, and the more you create the sort of atmosphere of sit down, shut up, stare straight forward and don't think anything I'm not saying (Which is what some teachers seem to expect), the worse off the student body will be. I generally found, with a few exceptions, that some of the best teachers were the ones who didn't give a fuck what I did in class, so long as I did what I needed to and wasn't disruptive.

To contrast:

English Teacher A: Guy had a short temper, but was generally pretty nice, and he couldn't care less that I was reading one of the class' copies of The Hot Zone during class, because he knew I had already finished what the class was reading, and didn't see any point in making me stay at their pace.

English Teacher B: She was generally pretty nice, too, but whereas Teacher A had given me freedom so long as I did what I needed to, in her class I had to stay at everyone else's pace. Who care's if I had finished The Giver? Guess I'd better read it again, because that's what the class was reading and if I was reading something that wasn't that, I would get in trouble.

I learned more and had a better experience in the first class because I was given freedom, and was treated as an individual, rather than having to conform. Basically, in high school, students are starting to become adults, and need to be treated as such and given freedom. Yes, there are those who will abuse that freedom, but you punish them for abusing it, not the entire student body.

That was a lot more rambling and anecdotal than I originally intended, but I think I got my point across, more or less.

*They actually had a semi-decent reason for not allowing sodas, since they didn't want us to ruin the carpet. That said, the carpet was ugly puke orange and it would be impossible to make any worse.

So I guess whe just have to make sure our kids all are militant radicals to keep the schools in line, right? ;)

Really, I'm pretty sure that's the exception, not the rule.

If wearing uniforms encourages kids to radicalise and understand the power of the populace I'm totally for it. The world needs more militants.

Kind of like the word gay, in that respect.

Seriously, in the days of yore when our forefathers rode in things called "horseless carriages" and sent mail with a "postal service" the word gay meant to be happy or merry.

Now it means homosexual, and it's usually used as a rather ineffective derogatory remark.

Back on topic: Them rules be bullshit, Megaman. I say ye cast off with your loyal crew, assail the school board and make them walk the plank of democracy and justice.

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The general student attitude is one of conformity and apathy. A disturbingly large number of students in this school don't mind. The only ones that do are ones that moved here from other states where they didn't get away with this kind of crap.

On a related note, I've just discovered that one of the other schools in the local district has a wikipedia entry. I'll be back as soon as I'm done vandalizing the hell out of it.

EDIT: Turns out there is a page for the whole district. I figured I'd run my rough draft by you guys before submitting it.

The Livingston Parish school district is a school district located in Southern Louisiana that has over 42 schools and 10,000 children who are daily subjugated to tortures indescribable by human speech. It was originally established during Germany's Third Reich when Germany temporarily occupied a small part of America's southern coast by way of a Naval assault. After establishing a strong hold on the area, the Nazi's saw that the KKK was already doing a fine job killing jew and other non Anglo-Saxons and left after congratulating them and commending them for their efforts. Since that time, the school has continued under the constant supervision and control of the KKK. More recently, the Klan has been using the school as a means of human experimentation on a controlled environment including but not limited to: encouraging a unitarian mentality among students through school uniforms, spreading racist propoganda in order to increase their dwindling recruitment rates, and studying the long term reactions of an apathetic and conformist population to the rist of a fascist or totalitarian government. Their experiemnts in the use of 'school spirit' propoganda to distract students from their blatant fascism and racism have met with such success that Livingston Perish has recieved various commendations from Paul G. Pastorek, Louisiana's superintendant of education.

Anything I should add before I confirm the changes?

You forgot the Communist baby-killing squads.

Seriously, man? Vandalizing a Wikipedia page?

That's just petty juvenile crap, right there, especially since it'll be changed back in five seconds.

Yeah, too mundane.

You start out ok with the Nazis but then they leave and it just goes down hill from there.

Yeah, couldn't you just I don't know, run down the hallway naked instead, Or in only a sign saying "THIS IS MY UNIFORM!"?

Kind of like the Sound of Music really, you got nothing without the Nazis.

Make sure to put in something about flourine in the water dulling the senses and mind control bugs in vaccines, it'll totally make your argument foolproof.