School Uniforms and Student Performance Many students may experience conflict between enforcement of school uniforms and willingness to wear their own clothes. What is the difference between them plays a key role in making a decision. Schools always argue that due to the disciplines, convenience of management and better study environment that comes from wearing uniforms, students prefer to stand out among their peers by dressing themselves. While parents' views vary depending on their children's financial situation and behaviors. “In 1993, Will Rogers Middle School in Long Beach, California, instituted a uniform dress code. The school had been plagued by graffiti and students in gang-style clothing. Test scores were declining As the policy was implemented, teachers noticed a different attitude in the school; the students were calmer and more polite. Students admitted that their lives were easier because they weren't worried about what they would wear to school." (W. Mitchell). This is the data that uniform advocates want people to draw attention to. There is a lot of data showing how uniforms benefit schools and students from all walks of life, but how can people ensure that wearing a school uniform is the only reason that entitles them to all the benefits? “But Long Beach's glowing statistics were met with skepticism. Some education experts say no school can prove that uniforms alone cause such a dramatic reduction in crime. Other critics see uniform policies as a violation of students' rights to free expression and nothing more than a Band-Aid that fails to address the real causes of youth violence” (Svensen). One: “Student uniforms were slightly correlated (0.5) with standardized achievement scores, indicating a possible relationship; …the correlation was much smaller than indicated in the debate (Brunsma, Rockquemore, 56). In Brunsma and Rockquemore's study it is clear that with the help of uniforms the profit is really existent but not very noticeable. Likewise, things that uniform advocates and parents care about, such as attendance, performance, or drug use, have no relevant relationship between uniform use, even academic performance and attitudes. “Brunsma reviewed previous studies on the effects of uniforms on academic performance. He also conducted his own analysis of two massive databases, the National Educational Longitudinal Study of 1988 and the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study of 1998. Brunsma concluded that there is no positive correlation between uniforms and school safety or academic performance.” (Brunsma). In the book Brunsma confirms the result with a more in-depth study. “Students in Catholic schools who wore uniforms were absent more often (p < .05) and, on average, scored 3 points lower (p < .01) on an achievement test than students in Catholic schools who did not wear uniforms” (Brunsma 57 ). Another example says that “Contrary to what we expected, Year 10 students who were required by school policy to wear uniforms had almost