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If a house is located in an area where the schools are lousy, whether the students at those schools wear uniforms or not will have no effect on property values. If the schools are lousy, everyone involved in establishing valuations of properties will know it. No one is going to suddenly be "surprised" to find out the neighborhood schools are lousy.
"Wow, even with the metal detectors everywhere, gang graffiti all over the outside of the school building, and multiple uniformed police officers at every school, I never bothered to research whether the schools were any good. It never occurred to me that the schools might be crummy, until I saw some children walking home in school uniforms."
"Wow, even with the metal detectors everywhere, gang graffiti all over the outside of the school building, and multiple uniformed police officers at every school, I never bothered to research whether the schools were any good. It never occurred to me that the schools might be crummy, until I saw some children walking home in school uniforms."
as long as they aren't orange jumpsuit uniforms, then you know it's a bad school
There is also the type of uniform, in the elite or religious schools the necktie being a key where as the public school uniform being more in line with a delivery service driver's uniform. But at its root in American public schools, along with the shoe brand, belt buckles, shoe lace colors.... some poster above mentioned is to take away the gang color affiliation
I understand how you feel - this is the way it is in the UK - if you are wearing a uniform you are going to a school that is prestigious and/or has its act together.
When I read the thread title I thought it was a crazy idea.
But if the general idea is that "only poor towns" have uniform policies then there might be something to it.
However, knowing what I know about the little "postage stamp" boroughs in Bergen County, NJ I think they are all pretty rich in comparison to large cities and rural areas. So in the end there's probably nothing to the claim about uniforms having a negative impact on property values, at least in Cliffside Park.
There is an elementary school, public, in one of San Jose CA, more upscale neighborhoods, that has school uniforms for its students. Williams Elementary, in the Almaden area.
So I'd concur that it's not school uniforms per se, it's the school and the socioeconomic demographics connected with property values.
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