NEWPORT BEACH

Eastbluff Elementary School PTA member Susan Tobiessen has a uniform vision for schools in the Corona del Mar High School zone.

By the time her 9-year-old daughter Alexandra gets to high school, Tobiessen wants students at all the schools--including the high school--to be required to wear uniforms.

Newly opened Eastbluff is the only school in the Corona del Mar zone with such a policy, but Tobiessen said uniforms could make a world of difference at all schools, especially at the high school, where many students feel pressure to dress fashionably every day.

School board President Serene Stokes, who represents Corona del Mar, said there are many benefits to uniforms, not the least of which is that girls won’t compete to see who can dress the most elaborately.

But Stokes noted that the district’s uniform policy requires parents to organize uniform drives at their own schools and to give their consent for such dress codes.