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Uniformity Through Uniforms

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Dave Posner

My friends, we’ve got trouble.  That’s trouble with a capital T which rhymes with P and E and stands for Public Education!  When it came to flim flammery, Harold Hill had nothing over Bill Clinton.  During the ’96 campaign Bill found the perfect solution to whatever’s wrong with our public schools: school uniforms!  We put every Johnny and Sally in a school uniform and by magic discipline problems go away and test scores go up.  And it doesn’t cost taxpayers a dime!  As a campaign issue it was perfect.  In addition to costing nothing, the only people who might object to it, the students, couldn’t vote.  And it was just obvious that what kids needed was discipline and what better model of discipline than the army and soldiers wear uniforms as do prisoners and members of juvenile gangs.  I don’t want to imply that Clinton didn’t believe in the idea – all good salesmen believe their own spiels.  After helping him win the election, Clinton made school uniforms a central proposal in his state of the union address.

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