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Public schools should most certainly employ a dress code with which their students should adhere to. There are a number of reasons to support this point-of-view, one of the most salient of which is the degree of danger that has become endemic in a variety of public school systems which is frequently presented in the form of gangs. It is a well-known fact that one of the most noticeable ways in which gang members attract attention to their respective factions is through their mode of dress. Certain colors and other distinguishing features (such as athletic teams and signs and insignias emblazoned upon their clothing) is used to denote the presence of these gangs. In many cases, such overt displays of a gang's presence may intimidate school children, and, as has been known to happen in more than one occasion, intimidate teachers and administrative staff as well. Were a dress code in place, students would not be able to magnify the prevalence of any possible gang activity, which may very well serve as an ameliorating factor by hopefully reducing the prevalence of any gangs on school property.

Additionally, public schools should employ a dress code to make sure that students are attired in appropriate clothing at all times. Young people, who are attempting to find themselves and an identity in which they are comfortable, may display tendencies of wearing clothing that is inappropriate and which may present itself as a distraction to other students. Examples of inappropriate clothing would be girls wearing shorts and skirts that are well above the thigh, as well as tops that are revealing. Examples of inappropriate clothing for young men include jeans that are torn and ripped up, or otherwise disfigured. By employing a uniform school dress code, students would not be able to wear such inappropriate clothing, and would have one less distraction preventing them from focusing on their studies -- which is the point of school.

Unfortunately, all too frequently, college students are most decidedly not getting the best education possible. One of the chief reasons why this statement is true is due to the proliferation of the internet and its wide impact upon collegiate education. This fact can be evinced in two primary ways -- the first of which is based upon students taking classes and attending college in an online capacity, and the second lies in the abuse of resources which the internet provides.

The appeal to the taking of online courses largely resides in the degree of flexibility, autonomy, and convenience which such courses allow in terms of scheduling. It is possible for students to actually study the material that is required for their course at their leisure. Unfortunately, such copious amounts of autonomy are frequently abused by students who readily employ of contract others to study modules for them, as well as to complete any sort of examinations or homework assignments that are required as well. In instances such as these, students are not actually doing their own schoolwork, which, of course means, they are not getting the best education possible. My girlfriend is taking online classes at a university in Detroit, and recently told me that a number of students in her oceanography course have disclosed the fact that they have other people learning the modules and taking the examinations in their place.

Then there is also the example of students who attend traditional collegiate settings (that are classroom based) and who contract the writing of their academic papers and to professional writers via the internet. In these cases the students may actually attend the classes and engage in any sort of lectures, yet they are still neglecting to complete all of their assignments since they have other writers composing their academic papers. Writing is an integral part of the "best education possible" in college, and many students are missing out on it.

Television is one of the most deplorable, and worst, inventions of all times, largely due to the amount of passivity it induces. Quite possibly one of the worst facets about television, and the inherent experience of watching it, is that the television is watching the viewer just as much as the viewer is watching it. To clarify this statement, there is a large amount of idleness involved in watching television, in which the viewer is engaged in the act of doing nothing but keeping his or her eyes upon the screen. Although the screen itself does not actually have eyes, of course, it is actually replicating the function -- and oftentimes, the form -- of the docile viewer who is sitting, at rest (like the television), in a quite similar motionless form.