If you haven't already heard, the Bishop Reding community have decided to increase the Civvies wage from 10$ to 20$. Many people have mixed emotions in regards to this decision, some students agree with it and others feel that they shouldn't have to pay money to wear their own clothes.
The Civilian wage has been increased from $10 to 20$ for the entire school year and there are two sides you can take , you either agree with the increase or you disagree with the wage increase. Reasons why students would agree with this is because although they are paying more money , they still get the privilege to wear their own clothes with little exceptions. Also, a reason why the wage is increased and why there even is a wage is to give the money to local charities that help with children who would like to play sports and join clubs who simply do not have enough money to do so. 20$ may seem like a lot of money to pay at the beginning of the semester but, previous years when my brother and sister went to school, they had to pay 2$ every single civvies day and considering that we have approximately 10 months of school then that would mean that we will have 10 civvies days. If you do the math 2 multiplied by 10 equals 20 so therefore we are paying the same amount as previous students at B.R had to pay. Every year prices go up , house prices, gas prices and even food prices. The staff believed that if all these prices keep increasing annually then why can't the price that the students pay for civvies days be increased as well.
On the other side of things, we have many students who totally disagree with the wage increase. Students feel that they shouldn't have to pay money to wear clothes that they already own let alone pay double of what they payed last year. Students also feel that its unfair because of the fact that on most civvies days , they are telling us what colour we have to wear because its a spirit day and if we decide that we don't want to wear that colour then we will get in trouble.
In My opinion, I will pay the 20$ for the civvies. It is also beneficial because we know that the money we give for the civvies days are going to a good cause as we are helping children who cant afford to do the things that they would like, the opportunity to do so as well as giving a portion to our school so we can have enough money to provide us, the students with anything we may want throughout the school year. At the end of the day we all want to wear our own clothes and we don't want to be that kid who is wearing his/her uniform on civvies days
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