Yes yes, your children managed to survive without it, people survive being shot in the head sometimes too, doesn’t mean folks should go out getting shot in the head based on those cases.
As to uniforms in education, the evidence regarding education goes back centuries, denying it is just flat out ignorant.
The reality is, if you are too lazy or poor to educate your children yourself, and put them in public education, you have turned your kids over to that state you feel is so threatening to you for 7-8 hours a day for at least 12 years of the formative years of their lives... so to then gripe that a uniform is an affront to your believe in liberty is laughable.
Public Schools are the minimal, they are what you accept when you have no choice, or refuse to do what is needed to get your kids educated properly. You can rant about it all you like, but the numbers don’t lie, public schools do not hold a candle to private education.
The great lie in public education is simply the educate so poorly that folks that are products of it largely have no idea what they have been robbed of, because they know no difference. I fortunately had the opportunity to be part of both systems growing up, and I saw and still see first hand how pathetically bad the public schools are, they are now starting their 4th generation of abject decay, so now only a kids grandparents if they are lucky can see exactly how bad it has gotten.
You think its just pure coincidence that students coming out of public schools with “decent” grades, get stuck in remedial math and english when they go to college? Nope, not a fluke. You think its accident that they consistently score lower on testing? Nope.
Uniforms have been part of formal education for centuries and every study done has shown they do aid in better overall education, even when they are instituted in public schools... but you know who cares about facts and putting education first, lets quibble over t-shirts and waist resources and time disciplining and arguing social nonsense instead of focusing on making sure kids are able to think critically and compete on the world stage.
There was a time when the US Public education system was the envy of the world, that time ended over 5 decades ago.
Did you even read what I wrote? I detest “public” government “education”. It is at its core thought control. Giving them even more power (to mandate uniforms) makes no sense. As I stated, I am fine with private schools mandating uniforms. That is between the school and parent. It is freely chosen by the parents.
Your opening statement is ignorant. Our kids flourished in homeschooling and are well educated (in a classical sense) and able to think and reason for themselves because of it.