Mandatory school uniforms? Good luck

School uniforms for all Manatee School District students?

This I’ve got to see.

Especially as someone who wore uniforms during 12 years of Catholic school education.

I didn’t always wear Hawiian shirts.

Manatee school officials are impressed by Osceola County’s success with a mandatory K-12 dress code now in its second year.

The dramatic decline it brought about in disruptive behavior in Osceola schools, particularly gang-related, has some leaders believing, why not here?

Uniforms are required in at least half of our elementary schools and at one middle school, but no other secondary schools.

Each non-uniform school’s Student Advisory Council can recommend changing the status quo, but it requires 65 percent parental approval.

I doubt that would happen.


For more see Sunday's Mannix About Manatee.