In a move that will please parents but upset some of their children, the Peel District School Board voted Monday night to give its high schools the option to require students to wear uniforms.

The Board said its decision had the support of 75 per cent of parents.

But Sarah Colvin, a Grade 10 student at Central Peel Secondary School in Brampton, has a very different view.

"I don't like wearing uniforms. It sucks," Colvin told CBC News Monday.

A pilot project requiring students to wear uniforms began at Colvin's school in 2014..

Students at Central Peel could choose some combination of a white or dark green, short- or long-sleeve collared shirt; a cardigan or pullover sweater; and black dress pants, shorts with at least a 20-centimetre inseam or skirt with a hemline at least 2.5 centimetres below the knee to wear to school.

At the time, the school's former principal who oversaw the start of the year-long pilot project, Lawrence DeMaeyer, said parents repeatedly asked for uniforms.

Some students disagree

But other students agree with Colvin.

"I hate that I'd have to look like everybody else," one student said. "I'd want to wear my clothes, my individual clothes."

Another teen who spoke to CBC News agreed that uniforms limit students' individuality.

"What you wear reflects who you are. So ... when you wear uniforms it's almost like you're taking that sense of, like, who that person is away from them."

But the school board says it has seen improvements in attendance, there's been a better sense of school community and it's increased self esteem amongst students at Central Peel.