Assaults up 89% in Nashville under uniforms

Another deathwatch for both the pop-up media and the American school system.

In the year since the Nashville school district implemented mandatory uniforms, assaults at school have soared 89%. Assaults are up over 200% in the high schools. Suspensions are also way up.

The dinosaur media has long carried water for school uniforms, but this ought to silence those who insist uniforms are a cure-all for disciplinary woes. Still, it does not. Regarding the spike in violence, the Tennessean (Nashville's daily paper) published a lightweight piece that the Nashville Scene's Bruce Barry called "a new low for lazy, incompetent local journalism."

Despite the fact that assaults have almost doubled, school officials still don't get it. They claim uniforms made the schools safer, despite all the proof to the contrary.

Who's surprised? I'm not. When I was in school, discipline problems were many times worse in schools that had uniforms than in those without. In all these years, that looks to be one truism that's never changed.

(Source: http://blogs.nashvillescene.com/pitw/2008/08/when_you_wish_upon_a_pair_of_k.php)