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Usually the main reason to mandate uniforms in poor countries is so that the poorest kids won't be ostracized for not being able to afford trendy clothes.

You would think that, but my Catholic school's uniform guidelines permitted parents to make a choice of brands, and some of my peers deemed Sears Toughskins to be the wrong choice.

sounds like your uniforms were not uniform enough

gottem

Or to prohibit street gang affiliation symbols.

> Same reason poor schools mandate uniforms

The top 6 countries in the annual PISA test are all asian countries where uniforms are mandatory in public and private education (China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Singapore, HK)

Characterise false rigour? Do you mean something that purports to be rigour but is not?

> Same reason poor schools mandate uniforms

Nah.

In Argentina, public primary school kids have a white uniform to imprint a sense of being among equals, no matter their families social standing.