| | 网站首页 | Information | Application | Photo | Exhibitor | Visitor | Media | Business | AboutZhuhai | AboutUs | 中文版 | |
|
 |
You are here: Airshow China >> AboutZhuhai >> News >> Articlecontent |
|
|||||
| Uniform world | |||||
| Author:佚名 ArticleSource:http://www.zhuhai.gov.cn/ Hits: Update Time:2006-9-4 | |||||
|
The kids in the States want to select their own clothing. It's called freedom of expression. The hip kids in the states would pity the students of Zhuhai. Here, the youngsters wear yellow-white flannel pullovers and matching pants in primary school and grey-white ones in secondary school. The clothing is loose, not tucked in, and covers the body from ankle to neck. Unlike the Japanese schoolgirl sailor short-skirt uniforms, the Chinese suits are both unisex and sexless. But regardless what city you go to in the US, you'll find them all wearing pretty much the same clothing, too. Except for their various girths, all the girls look alike in their skinny jeans, platform shoes and tunic blouses. The boys are wearing cargo shorts or camouflage pants, T-shirts over their polo shirts and army belts. More than 80 per cent of the average $580 spent on back-to-school items per student is going toward clothing this year. But in Zhuhai, the cost is minimum, the stress of shopping for school clothes nonexistent, the competition between students for coolness irrelevant. Zhuhai has achieved what former President Bill Clinton had envisioned of in March 1996 when he said: "If it means that the schoolrooms will be more orderly and more disciplined, and that our young people will learn to evaluate themselves by what they are on the inside, instead of what they're wearing on the outside, then our public schools should be able to require their students to wear uniforms." So, just over a week ago an American high school suspended 128 students for one day for wearing to school "offending attire" that included baggy pants, low-cut shirts, tank tops and graphic T-shirts that must have cost a pretty penny. Who should pity whom? On the other hand, schools from Los Angeles to New York are now following Clinton's advice and China's lead. They are requiring all students to wear uniforms. That way, students can express themselves in school in the most appropriate and effective ways - academically, socially and athletically. (John Hedin teaches at Southern China Specialty Training College, which provides his services as English advisor to the Zhuhai Daily.) | |||||
| Set Homepage | Add Favorite |About Us| Contact Us | FriendSite| Advertising| 管理登录 | Copyright 1996 - 2006 Airshow.com.cn, All Rights Reserved 粤ICP备05081894号
|
