Comments on: Follow-up: Do School Dress Codes Make Any Difference to Behavior and Academic Performance?

By: Monica

Monica — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 15:48:59 +0000

Academic success is an outcome of teacher instructional practice, culturally relevant pedagogy, inspiring the student, tutoring, teaching standards, classroom management, and student participation, NOT WHAT STUDENTS WEAR (emphasis) to school.

There are communities and countries wear students dress poorly, but perform well academically.

There are urban schools all over the country that have continuously scored F’s and D’s (and scored low in attendance) on state report cards that wear school uniforms.

Reearch does no

By: Tsivya Fox

Tsivya Fox — Mon, 26 May 2014 06:09:30 +0000

Thanks Gordon, for your important insight. I am sure that the graduates would agree with you.

By: Gordon Wetmore

Gordon Wetmore — Mon, 26 May 2014 03:47:30 +0000

I think the studies that showed uniforms or dress codes had improved graduation did show that there was an overall improvement in academic performance, although grade point averages may not show it. Think of how little weight is needed to tip a balance scale one way or the other. A mote of dust, seemingly insignificant, can send one side down and the other up. That miniscule measure for the students who would otherwise not have graduated was very significant, the difference between being afloat or drowning.