Okullarda Üniforma Zorunluluğu Kaldırılıyor — School Uniform Requirement to be Abolished

School Uniform Requirement to be Abolished

18 May 2010

The Education Ministry's longstanding çoktandır devam eden and long-debated tartışmak school uniform requirement is set to come to an end at the beginning of the next school year.

Despite a ministry decision in recent years that the blue collared yakalı shirt in elementary school uniforms was no longer to be required lazım, the school uniform industry demand istemek that the standard stay in place, delaying the implementation uygulama of the new system until this fall. The Education Ministry says that it aims to ultimately en sonunda abolish kaldırmak not just the blue shirt, but school uniforms entirely.

The ministry says that it is more appropriate uygun for students to attend devam etmek school dressed in everyday attire kıyafet and has completed preparation of the regulations mevzuat needed to effect a change in dress code policy. Education Minister Nimet Çubukçu ran an online poll anket over whether or not students should be able to dress as they please in schools, with support high for an abolishment of school uniforms. In the coming days Çubukçu is set to bring up the issue with the Cabinet; provided that all goes well, school uniforms will be a thing of the past by the fall.

Meanwhile, producers of school uniforms are not pleased at the prospects of a change in the regulations. Industry administrators have expressed displeasure over the changes, which they say will eliminate demand for blue blouses and uniforms, complaining to Minister Çubukçu and members of the Cabinet as well as taking out advertising space in newspapers to voice their discontent memnuniyetsizlik. Representatives of the industry assert ileri sürmek that this change will leave thousands unemployed when the billion-lira industry just disappears.

"The ministry bakanlık hasn't made any statement saying that the uniforms will be abolished, and we continued producing them. We have hundreds of thousands of uniforms in hand right now; if they don't sell, we'll go bankrupt iflas etmek,' they complain.

They also say that the abolishment of the school uniform will change the atmosphere at schools, emphasizing distinctions between the affluent zengin and the poor based on clothing and leading to a preoccupation kaygı with fashion instead of studies.

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