Uniform chart

          This is a chart I found to summarize the data of a study done in a certain school with uniforms. The school isn’t said for confidentiality reasons. The top chart shows data that mostly supports the “school uniforms stop the fighting” theory except for one that I find very interesting. While the graffiti on school buildings, fighting at school, and fighting on the way to and from school decreased, fighting on busses increased. One thing I have a problem with is wondering what the differences between going home and riding the bus. Also if the only number of fights are happening on the bus, it shows kids are learning to fight and cause trouble wear their teacher can’t see them. Which is just teaching the children to hide stuff and possibly even force down their aggression which may lead to anger management problem or, worst case scenario, self harm. They don’t show statistics of other problems either, like number of children sent to administration for example. I am almost certain that these numbers greatly increased due to being sent for uniform violation. In the lower part, part B, is the public opinion survey. It surveys student, parents and teachers to ask them if they felt school was safer, less safe, or if it had no difference in safety. The parents, completely withdrawn from the situation, were the ones that thought it had gotten safer. The students had the highest percentage of the “less safe” option, and the teachers by great majority saw no difference in safety level at the school. All tests were run one year after the uniform policy was put into action. I would have liked to see ones from year 3 and 5 afterwards as well. I also wonder which students, parents, and teachers were asked or if all were surveyed.