Students Dislike Uniforms, Respond By Burning Them

[Sithdarth]

In the end, the reason so many schools have uniforms is that there's no real, actual, practical inconvenience to them.

Except that one glaringly huge inconvenience that you and basically everyone else in this thread have blithely ignored. A statistically large portion of the schools in America are financially crippled and serve students in similar situations. I know this is specifically true in New York State where the k-12 school I went to actually had to cut out its music program and half of its sports and arts due to lack of money. Now how exactly are schools that can't even pay for educational programs going to provide uniforms for their students?

Its not much better on the students side in most of these schools. They're either members of the rural poor or the urban poor. It doesn't really make a difference cause most of them can barely afford food let alone a school uniform on top of the bare minimum of clothes their kids get. Clothes which are either hand-me-downs, bought second hand, or simply received through charity. So it seems to me uniforms could be a very large inconvenience to a great many smaller schools and provide no real benefits.