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Uniform fashion good for young students
制服时尚对年轻学生有好处
Read this article from an education journal to discover a new trend in American schools.
阅读这篇教育期刊的文章来发现美国学校的新趋势。
School uniforms are not part of the traditional way of life in the USA.
校服不是美国传统生活的一部分。
In 1987, Cherry Hill Elementary, which is in Maryland, went against tradition by becoming the first public school in the USA to make students wear uniforms.
1987年，马里兰州的契丽希尔小学违反传统的成为了美国第一个让学生穿制服的公立学校。
The school did this to reduce trouble caused by the students' love of fashion.
学校这么做以减少由学生对时尚的热爱而造成的麻烦。
Since this new programme has proved to be a good way to promote safety and discipline, other schools soon followed.
因为这个新的举措被证明是提升安全和纪律的好方法，其它学校很快效仿。
By 2000, 12 percent of American public schools required school uniforms.
截止到2000年，百分之十二的美国公立学校要求穿校服。
The introduction of school uniforms has helped reduce school violence.
校服的引进帮助减少了校园暴力。
Much of school violence is linked to the wearing of gang colours, which are the clothes worn by different youth gangs.
大多数校园暴力和穿着不同帮派衣服的颜色紧密联系的。
In schools with youth gangs, the number of fights decreased by 40 per cent after uniforms were introduced.
在校服被引入之后，那些有帮派的学校的斗殴事件数量下降了百分之四十。
Uniforms also send a message that students are at school to study, not to play.
校服还传播了一种信息，学生在学校是学习的，不是来玩的。
They reduce peer pressure and create school pride.
他们不仅减少了阶层压力还创造了学校荣誉感。
These things help raise the academic level of the students.
这些都帮助提升了学生的学习水平。
Although school uniforms are popular in some areas, this new trend has met strong resistance from parents,
尽管校服在有些地区很受欢迎，但这个新趋势已经遭到了家长的强烈抵抗，
some of whom angrily complain that uniforms keep students from showing their individuality.
他们当中有些人愤怒地抱怨校服使他们的孩子不能展示个性。
A few parents have even gone to court to stop school uniforms from being introduced.
个别家长甚至去法院来阻止校服的推行。
For this reason, it is unlikely that uniforms will ever be adopted nationwide.
因为这个原因，校服永远都不太可能在全国使用。
