Natalie Roche Process Draft

Natalie Roche
April 19, 2011
Writing 1133

Essay 2:
Uniform and Unified – Are they the Same as they Sound?

My introduction. first paragraph goes into my process of how I interviewed people, the criteria, etc. How do school students feel as individuals about school uniforms, whether they are forced to wear them in an academic environment or not but have seen others doing so? I was interested in seeing how people felt their freedoms were limited (or not) simply by being forced to wear certain attire in school, and to conduct my research I assembled a list of fifteen questions based off of this main idea asking students about certain aspects of their lives that could possibly be hindered by wearing or not wearing a uniform. Fourteen of these people between the ages of eighteen and twenty-two responded. Three of them were male and the rest were female. Five students total had worn a school uniform in their lives before for two to nine years of their lives (one male, four females), though none of them were currently in a position where they were wearing one. The rest were simply speculating what it would be like to wear one if they did, using their own school experiences without being forced into a uniform to make their opinions. I divided my research between these two separate groups and compared their answers together, as well as to examples of experts who enforced wearing a school uniform, to determine the overall feelings of the public about this issue through two different sources. These sources were from professional viewpoints, based off of the ideas of school safety and the importance of school uniforms. My interest was to compare the values of the students to those enforcing the rules to see how their feelings compared in all aspects of the situation regarding school uniforms.

Secondly, I went into the results, and how this has to do with Colorado. After collecting all the data, I properly divided the people who filled out the questionnaire between uniforms and non-uniforms. Then, I read each section invidually, summed up the main points from each grouping, and compared the two different answers to find how they differed. Here, I will list the main points of what I noticed in all of the arguments. One main aspect was that in the professional articles, the adutls stated that the safety that comes with school uniforms is the most important piece, and “the pros of having uniforms in schools are definitely higher than the cons, but the students will continue to go against the idea as far as it doesn't make them feel good”.