Should students be required to wear a school uniform?

Should students be required to wear a school uniform?

Forty-percent of American adults believe school uniforms should be mandatory for students in grades K-12, while 50% disagree.

In a Poll Position telephone survey of the nation, Hispanics were the only ethnic group favoring school uniforms, by a margin of 69%-17%.

Ten-percent of those surveyed said they had no opinion on the issue.

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Poll Position’s scientific telephone survey of 1,057 adults nationwide was conducted September 8, 2011 and has a margin of error of ±3%.

The online companion poll in which you can vote provides unscientific results, meaning it’s a tally of participating Poll Position users, not a nationally representative sampling.

Poll Position is committed to transparency and upholding the highest professional standards in its polling, explaining why we provide you with the crosstabs of our scientific polls. Crosstabs provide a breakdown of survey participants by age, race, gender, and political affiliation. Here are the crosstabs for this poll: Poll Position crosstabs – school uniforms.

You can learn more about our polling methodology here.