Public School Uniforms: First Step Toward Fascism?

If public school students had one thing over their private school counterparts it's about to change. That's right: not only are public schools notorious for large classes and limited resources but now some of them are adopting what has always been most dreaded by the youth attending private schools: school uniforms. The very idea seems a bit strange. Agonizing over what to wear to school (and whose logo or face to wear across on your …

…but students like Ryan Palmer did not back down, telling the Mississippi Press newspaper, "Our rights are being violated and there is always a price to pay." The right to feel comfortable in yourself, in your clothes, the right to choose: these are all very real things to believe in. And, as Kristina King, another one of the protesters in Hurley, was quoted as saying, "You've got to stand up for what you believe in."