When I was a boy, children always objected     1    wearing school uniform but teachers were   2     on it because they said all of us looked   3   . Otherwise, they said children could compete with   4  and the poorer children would be unhappy because people would see how poor they were. In recent years, however, many schools have   5   the idea of making children wear uniform but funnily enough, now that children can wear   6  they like, they have adopted a uniform of their own. When some journalists visited a London school, they found that all the boys and girls were dressed in jeans. One girl said she would rather die than wear a coat instead of a jersey because  7  wants to look different  8  the other children in the class. Parents may not be as happy about this as children, but they   9   to be, because this new kind of uniform is one that the children like, not something they have forced to wear, and it is also   10   cheaper than school uniform used to be.

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