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 School uniforms should be required because they fight against gangs and gang colors. This is one of the main reasons that the idea of school uniforms was made. According to the Manual for School Uniforms, “One of the potential benefits of school uniforms is to help prevent gang members from wearing gang colors and insignia to school.” (U.S. Dept. of Education 3) The pros of having uniforms have had many cities mandate uniforms causing crime and fighting to drop in the schools. (Cook 5) Schools all over the country have been experiencing great improvements in behavior when they started to enforce a uniform policy. “Occurrence of fighting among students was pretty much an everyday event,” said a principal of a K-8 school in El Paso, Texas,” but last year we had only 2… fights. We don’t have gang and drug problems anymore.” (Cook 7)