School Uniform! Teacher’s Voice.

School Uniform!
Teacher’s Voice.

On September 25th, 2010 I had an interview with, a Civil Rights and
History teacher from school #2, Abdulloeva Obida Safaralievna. I asked
her some questions about school uniform in order to know what teachers
think about it.
So this was our interview:

Madina Khakimova (M.K.): 1.How many years do you work at this school?
Teacher (T.): I have worked as a teacher at this school for 23 years.
M.K.: 2.What kind of subjects do you teach?
T.: I teach Civil Rights and History.
M.K.: 3.Which class are you responsible for ?
T.: I am responsible for the 8th grade.
M.K.: How many students do you have in your class?
T.: I have 27 students in my class.
M.K.: 4.How many of your students come to school without school uniform?
T.: This year I have only one girl who is not wearing school uniform
because her parents don’t let her to, and she is coming to school in
her national dress.
M.K.: 5.How can she wear national dress at school if students must
wear school uniform?
T.: Certainly, its right, students must wear school uniform, but in
her case her parents went to our city Government and asked permission
for their daughter to wear a national dresses at school instead of
uniform, so our government allowed her to wear dresses, but the
dresses suppose to be only black or white no colorful fabrics. But
students are not allowed to wear hijab or a veil.
M.K.: 6.What kind of punishments do you have for a student who comes
without school uniform? Do you send him/her back home and make him/her
to wear school uniform? Do you scold them? Do you just let them sit in
the back of class and just telling them to wear school uniform
tomorrow immediately?
T.: As for me if my students come without school uniform first
I will ask the reason why he/she came without school uniform. If my
student had some reasonable case I will let him/her to stay and sit in
the back, also I’ll tell other teachers to let him/her to be without
school uniform that day, and if my student live close to school I will
let him to go and to change clothes. But if my student would come
without any reason without school uniform I will make them go home and
change clothes, I will forgive them first time but will ask them never
repeat it again.
M.K.: 7.And do you have any student in your class or at school
who doesn’t have school uniform because he/she is from a poor family
that doesn’t have opportunity to buy their child a school uniform?
T.: I don’t have such students this year, but we had one
student like that last year. He was a senior and his family didn’t
have enough money to buy him a school uniform.
M.K.: 8.What did you do with that student? Did you help him? And
if you did, how did you help him?
T.: Yes we did help that boy. All his classmates gathered money
and bought school uniform for him. Besides of school uniform we helped
him to pay fees for his books too.
M.K.: 9.That’s very nice of you and his classmates. So as a teacher
and just as a person what is your opinion about school uniform?
T.: My opinion is good about school uniform. I am really pleased with
our students, and really glad that they are wearing school uniforms. I
think our students look very pretty when they are wearing school
uniforms. I think every person suppose to have house clothes for house
for street; school clothes for school; and formal clothes to wear to
some meetings or to some holidays, its just like we have a schedule at
school or schedule of our day, so is our clothes we have different
clothes for different circumstances in our life time.
M.K.: 10. But what about students from the families under privilege
families, what if they can’t buy school uniform do they need just to
stay at home and don’t go to school?
T.: That’s a good question. And I have an answer for it too. Our
Government made a Law in our Constitution that all people must get
education, and no one should be left behind because doesn’t have
money, the education for people are free of charge. But another Law
for students is that all students must wear school uniforms. And if
student doesn’t have such opportunity, it doesn’t mean that he must
stay at home because everyone suppose to get education , that student
will just get help from school. School and students will always help a
child from a poor family to buy school uniform. And our government
also makes some charities for poor families. So it’s not that awful
problem for student, the main thing it’s to get knowledge from school
and the uniform is on the second place. We are always ready to help
our students in order to see them educated. And also even if it is a
Democracy nowadays and everyone can say his own opinion nevertheless
we must obey our Law that we have in Constitution, we can’t change
Laws and students must wear school uniform, its student’s
responsibility and one of the rights to obey the Laws of Tajik
Constitution. But if you have uniform it doest mean you are a good
student, you must to study well and to be a good citizen of your
country.

This was our not very long conversation with our teacher about school
uniform. So as it was the second interview about school uniform I
understood what people think about school uniform better. The first
interview was with a parent who had a positive opinion and the second
interview was with a teacher who also was very positive about school
uniform. So from our two interviews I can make a conclusion that
school uniform is a very good decision because teachers and parents
for it. And no matter if some people don’t have money to buy it school
and just kind people can help that child just in order to make that
child to be educated.
And school uniform also helps us to realize who is student and who is
teacher, because some of our older grades are tall and look like
teachers already but when you see that they are wearing white shirts
and black skirts or trousers you can say this is a student and not a
teacher