SOCB26H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Black Kids, C. W. Jefferys Collegiate Institute, Visible Minority
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Things we would"ve taken for granted, but since columbine shooting there has been an increased concern about school safety and awareness for schools. Rampage school shootings don"t often take place; school is still a relatively safe place in comparison to streets or neighbourhoods. Prof thinks school uniforms are not good, he had to wear one for 6 years at boarding school (back in the day): justified for egalitarian reasons. Present era: instrument of social control (allows educational administrators): identifying outside in local gang members, in schools; law and order reasons. Making more positive ethos has a positive effect on school attainment, and would encourage school pride. Making school"s safer article: promising early findings from long beach california. The school board there introduced mandatory school uniforms for elementary to high school students, mid 1990"s crime reductive nature of school uniforms: later research caused further doubt.
