The first article is “School Dress Codes and Uniform Policies”. It was written by
Anderson, Wendell in the year 2002 for the ERIC Clearinghouse on Educational Management.
The research was sponsored by the Office of Edu
...
The first article is “School Dress Codes and Uniform Policies”. It was written by
Anderson, Wendell in the year 2002 for the ERIC Clearinghouse on Educational Management.
The research was sponsored by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement. The
author takes a sensible approach to the usefulness of dress codes and school-uniform policies.
He acknowledges that there is not a one size fits all solution and every school and community
may have different needs and that those needs should be carefully considered and discussed
before implementing a dress code policy.
The second article written by Deane, Samantha in 2015 for the Ohio Valley Philosophy
of Education Society is named “Dressing Diversity: Politics of Difference and the Case of School
Uniforms”. This piece is full of pseudo-intellectual jargon that does not amount to much. There
is a heavy underlying theme accusing dress codes and school uniforms as being oppressive. The
argument could be made that perhaps in some situations school uniforms are oppressive, but
the author seems to blanket all dress codes as oppressive. A standard dress code that forces to
teens to have some semblance of professionalism seems to be a bad thing in the authors eyes.
This will be Rogerian argument will be somewhat difficult to compose due to the vast
difference in the way both arguments are presented. One is measured and reasonable and is
arguably already a middle of the ground answer. While the latter is a painfully difficult piece to
read and pretends to have a dress code is a grave injustice. Due to the nature of Rogerian
arguments one is pigeon-holed into pretending one of these arguments is legitimate.
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