Uniforms coming to West Craven High?
West Craven High will be the first county high school to make its students wear uniforms if the school board approves the request as expected Thursday evening.
A request from the school administration to adopt a uniform policy is included on the Craven County Board of Education’s consent agenda, Chairman Carr Ipock said today. Consent agenda items are usually approved in a single vote with little discussion.
I’ve always opposed student uniforms in public schools because they stifle expression and creativity. It was heartening, however, to see that this compulsory conformity was confined to elementary and middle schools. Now, the same rules that apply to children will be foisted on young adults with driver’s licenses and jobs.
But, to quote comic and social commentator George Carlin, “it’s not a new idea.”
“I first saw it in old newsreels from the 1930s,” Carlin said in his act. “But it was hard to understand because the narration was in German.”
UPDATE (April 21, 10:05 a.m.) — The school board postponed its vote on the West Craven uniform policy Thursday, according to the Sun Journal’s coverage. Uniforms have not (yet?) been adopted for the 2008-09 school year.
April 15th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
Welcome to the New World Order, North American Union, Police State. It was coming, it was just a matter of time. Some of us saw it coming years ago, the rest of you were to busy with big screen TV;s, american Idol, football, baseball, golf, SUV, Boat, new home, the morgage to go with itand your over paid government job. Wake up people the coffee is boiling over.