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Uniforms, just add color

Last year, Lawrence High School [in Lawrence Massachusetts] separated into six distinct schools to give students some overall direction in their education. This year, the school has gone a step further and implemented color coded uniforms for each school. They are grey for business management and finance, dark green for health and human services, white for humanities and leadership development, light blue for international, brown for math, science, and technology and red for performing and fine arts.

The school has paired with three local merchants to make the colored shirts available for students to purchase and have allowed for small variants in shade to appease the fashion concession student body. These colored shirts [paired with khaki slacks or skirts] are intended to promote team spirit with in each of the schools at Lawrence High.

This is not only a good idea but a great one and I have recommended a similar strategy for each of my former employers over the past 10 years. I have long thought that if the company would buy me golf and dress shirts, in varying colors, with the company logo on it, I would wear one every day. I wouldn't have to think about what I am going to wear to work other than what shoes go with my pants. This way the whole office could wear the company logo with pride and we would act as walking billboards for the company, our products or both.

Lawrence High School could be on to something that not only the academic community could use to color code their world but maybe the corporate world [insert logo here] could use as well.

posted by TheWino @ 9:12 AM