@ Irena

Corruption will be corruption until the next ice age! It is not connected with uniforms, but with human nature.

I can tell you why the idea doesn't work in Serbia. The idea doesn't work in Poland, too! Absolutely!

Tradition is a very good thing. But when tradition was interrupted for many years and had to return, it would never return IN A NORMAL WAY, NATURALLY! There were many attempts to begin with school uniforms last years in Poland. But all in vain!

I am sure, in Serbia students wore uniforms in the past, like in Poland, Ukraine, Russia, or France. And it was a very good tradition. Especially in schools where existed a big social difference between student's background and financial possibilities. At school the best student has to be a student with best knowledge, not with best cash!

@ Irena

I remember living near a primary school in Spain and it seemed to be a competition to see which child could wear more ribbons in her hair. The outfits they wore were from local boutiques and I remember one of the poorer mums saying to me "I wish they would simply introduce a plain school uniform".

I think school uniforms give students a false sense of equality.  One of the largest arguments for school uniforms in the US is that students are less likely to be bullied due to their socioeconomic status because everyone is wearing the same thing.  But in the real world, there are rich people, people who have enough money, people who get by, and people with no money.  That is sad but it is the truth.  

When these students grow up and enter into the real world, they will have face people from different socioeconomica statuses.  I think it would be better if students learn how to cope with this in school so that when they enter the workforce, they will be ready.

I only know of one school in Denmark, a boarding school, where pupils wear uniforms. I never wore a uniform myself and I hate the idea: the idea of telling people what to wear is really foreign to me. I actually feel it's a kind of oppression. I don't know how other Danes feel about it. I do however understand the various arguments for school uniforms given above. Perhaps not wearing school uniforms works well in Denmark because it's a quite egalitarian society in which ostentation is frowned upon.

I was growing up in the seventies and eighties and my parents where slightly hippie-ish. They weren't wealthy. I would wear patched trousers and second-hand clothes/hand-me-downs. It never bothered me the least. I didn't even think about it. Perhaps I'm just a bit dim: I happily wore whatever my mother gave me to wear.