p in deterring violence and crime? Many parents and teachers
             say yes. Supporters of uniforms say social and economic classes would no longer be
             revealed by students' clothing and the school system will have more of a sense of
             community.(Nittel) Providing that a child's clothes does make a difference in school
             violence, then uniforms are exactly what our children need. Some parents feel uniforms
             will put the students' emphasis on schoolwork instead of dressing "cool", and they will
             Almost five years ago, the Long Beach School District made headlines when it became
             the first school district in the country to make uniforms mandatory for its elementary and
             middle school students. According to Phoenix school officials in Long Beach, California,
             attendance and test scores improved, incidents of students fighting decreased by 50%,
             student crimes decreased by 36% and student suspensions decreased by 32% after they
             enacted a uniform policy.(Will) Also other there were other steps to improve student
             behavior. Increasing the number of teachers patrolling the hallways during class changes,
             were also taken by the district around the same time the uniform policy was introduced.
             Dress codes were initiated in private schools as a standard. As violence, competition
             between students, and distractions from the educational system increased in public
             schools, administrators began to consider uniforms as a solution to the problem.
             In Baltimore, Maryland, school administrators found a 44% drop in assault and battery
             charges, a 50% reduction in assault with a deadly weapon, a 41% cut in occurrences of
             fighting and a 74% drop in sexual offenses. They also found drug abuse to be down by
             89% and vandalism had dropped by 8%.(Stacey) These results and others caused many
             school districts to consider uniforms for their own schools.
             Uniforms seem to give students a sense of...