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School Uniforms

2007-08 Requirements: Elementary Boys Elementary Girls Junior High Boys Junior High Girls High School Boys High School Girls

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Why Does LCA Require School Uniforms?

We at Logos Christian Academy have concluded that the educational experience will be best served by requiring that all students wear school uniforms.  We arrived at this conclusion after examining other schools and exploring pros and cons.  We have found that the effective Classical and Christian Schools we are using for models generally have a school uniform policy.  Rather surprisingly, our research indicates that the concept is growing in favor with many government schools as well!  In a recent survey of Chicago schools for example, 371 out of 557 government schools require uniforms.  The Long Beach, California school district began a school uniform policy several years ago and experienced a sharp drop in vandalism, absenteeism and classroom conflict.

While we do not face the same challenges as do the government schools in say, Chicago, we believe that a reasonable school uniform policy is a good fit with the image we want to portray as an academic institution in the classical tradition.  It is very important that our school climate and school culture be conducive to study and learning; and we are convinced that a school uniform policy will further that objective.  Below, you will find some of the thinking that has shaped the board’s decision on this matter.

1. Establishes an orderly atmosphere on our campus.  Throughout its pages, the Bible commends orderliness.

2. Promotes school unity for the entire school community:  cultivates a healthy sense of belonging to something larger than the individual self.

3. Teaches children that different things are acceptable in different settings (including what you wear!)  Viewed from this angle, school uniforms actually foster discernment in children.  Contrary to what some may suppose, failure to prescribe a wardrobe for kids does not foster any discernment in their choice of wardrobe.  Just the opposite is usually true.  Kids WILL conform, either to the school uniform policy OR to some other unstated policy.  This will most often take some form of “but MOM! This is what everybody else is wearing!”

4. Fosters a serious attitude among students who are more inclined to believe that “what I am doing today is important”.  Most professions wear some kind of identifying “uniform” which sets their activity apart as something special.  Children inherently know this and respond accordingly when they are asked to wear a uniform.

5. Removes potential distractions for the teacher as well as the student.

6. Discourages a natural tendency for students to “prejudge” one another on the basis of apparel.

7. Diminishes any tendency (however unintended) for teachers to make assumptions about children based upon their appearance.

8. Inhibits a competitive attitude regarding dress and appearance.  Eliminates peer pressure to conform to counterproductive and (usually) unhealthy fads.

9. Disposes of the need for that “nit-picking” dress code.  Dress codes are always full of details like, no shorter than” or “at least as long as” and similar vague things that become hard to enforce and often result in a frustrating loss of productive time for teachers and administrators.

10. Lowers the cost of “back to school shopping”.  Parents who have purchased school uniforms for their children for two or three years love this aspect of uniforms.

The one objection to school uniforms, which is regularly advanced, concerns the loss of “individualism” on the part of the student.  Detractors worry that students will be traumatized by some awful loss of “identity”.  But this complaint actually “proves too much”!  It arises from a secularist mindset, from the thoroughly humanistic notion that one important objective of education is to allow students to “find themselves”...to enable students to “realize their true identity”.  (To thine own self be true?!)  Along with all Classical and Christian schools, we at Logos Christian Academy believe that the purpose of education is actually the “flip-side” of this popular modern mentality.  That is, education should be designed in such a way as to train and encourage students to “get outside of themselves”.  

We want to prepare students at Logos Christian Academy to discover a whole wide world of facts, events, ideas, theories, people, and cultures that is removed from their own narrow world and their own limited time perspective.  Our observations of contemporary American culture lead us to conclude that as a people, we do not need much help with “individualism”!  Our society is rife with “individualism”, the kind of which is often very destructive.  The need of the hour, for the church, for the school, for the family, and for the nation, is to turn hearts and minds away from “me - me - me”.