With his values in mind, Rawls would support that school uniforms are in fact an infringement on students’ rights. In this paper I will analyze school uniforms through the Rawlsian perspective of supporting the least advantaged, eliminating gender bias, and ensuring that all citizens have access to their job of choice.
As it stands school uniforms are not universally utilized. They are predominantly used in private schools and low-income communities. However, they are most commonly employed in communities with high rates of poverty. “In fact, 47% of high-poverty public schools reported requiring school uniforms, compared to 6% of low poverty, public schools” (U.S. Department of Education, 2014). Rawls argues that society should be positioned as such that the least advantaged group is better off than they would be in any other circumstance. Rawls would find it to be problematic that the