In regards to your spooky students in black clothes with Union Jack buttons ... well, maybe that's a Punk thing -- didn't it start in the UK? Maybe make them watch Sid and Nancy (the one with Gary Oldman, are there any others?) and then ask them for a report or essay or something, if you're the malicious make-them-hate-what-they-once-loved type. If you're feeling lucky, punk, why not spend a couple of lessons / tutorials on what the attraction is with uniformity ... the history and function of the uniform, the notion of mass hysteria, play that snippet from (God, am I really citing this film) Dead Poets Society where they're walking in a circle and then gradually start marching in step ... and if you really want to FuXx0r your students up, Full Metal Jacket =c] Look at the goth 'movement', itself a bland uniformity, as protest against uniform social blandness! Spot the person who never went to university and always wanted. Maybe.
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