The darker side of clothes, is a very good read and I have to agree. He notes, “the first dangerous precedent is that mandatory school uniforms reinforces the idea that it’s ok to lose liberty for good intentions.” As they say, the road to Hell is paved with good intentions. He goes on, stating that another “problem is that you are teaching the students subtly that liberty is not that important.” Amen to that. Of course as others have noted, public schools often seem to be “mandatory government youth indoctrination camps.” This is not the fault of 99.999999% of those who teach in the system (most of whom are good people who care greatly for their kids), but rather the government bureaucracy that has risen up around the schools.
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- The Traveler (Fourth Realm Trilogy, Book 1) by John Twelve Hawks
- Jonathan Strange by Susanna Clarke
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