Schools have three primary responsibilities with respect to students. The first responsibility is to foster academic achievement. The second responsibility is to create and maintain a school environment that is safe, orderly, and conducive to learning. The third responsibility is to promote and support positive community standards and values such as civility, respect for others, self-respect, citizenship and other constructive character traits and behaviors. Without these, teaching and learning will be negatively impacted.
Students have the responsibility to choose their attire, arrange their personal appearance, and maintain their personal hygiene in a manner that is safe, healthy, non-offensive, and conductive to the educational process. The student dress code is intended to create a positive school climate of respect for self and others, reduce the occurrence of discipline problems, and maintain safety and order in the school so that effective teaching and learning can take place.
School staff members have the responsibility to report violations of the Dress Code Policy and respectfully address students who are out of compliance with the policy. Administrators have the responsibility to investigate these reports, encourage students to make better choices in attire, and assign appropriate consequences for infractions. It is also the responsibility of the administrators and the staff to maintain an awareness of attire related to gang affiliation so that the Dress Code Policy can be implemented effectively. A teacher or staff member is expected only to report violations and is never expected to measure or touch a student they feel is in violation of the Dress Code Policy.
Specific units of measure for widths and lengths are provided to ensure that the policy is measurable and to alleviate misinterpretations of the policy.
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Is there a part of the dress code that talks about the kids that wear their pants down below the hips? I don't want to see the color of their underwear.
ReplyDeletewhat is the point in the dress code? They do not enforce it at all, the kids know its not enforced. Some of these girls go to school dressed like hookers, and nothing is done about it.
ReplyDeleteYou can't expect to enforce a dress code that the teachers do not adhere to themselves!
ReplyDeleteWho is supposed to enforce the dress code? Teachers send students to the nurse to change clothes, the nurse sends them back to class saying they don't have any clothes that fit the child. The admin tells us to contact the parents. After a while the teachers just give up on it because it is once again something else for us to monitor.
ReplyDeleteThe kids will wear whatever they have. The parents are buying the clothing. So, if mom buys "Johnny" a pair of jeans that come down BELOW his behind then mom shouldn't be surprised when he get suspended. Get normal jeans or get a belt..can be taken several ways).
ReplyDeleteWhat about the teachers dress codes? Have you seen some of what these teachers wear? Not to mention the Dean at Parkside will for sure measure any of the girls. I agree we need to have rules, but BOE as they say "Let's practice what we preach" first!
ReplyDeleteIt was made with good intentions but very hard to enforce. There is no buy in from administration and after the first week of school it want away. An attempt was made in the spring but it was again, unsuccessful. Nice thought, nice try. What's next?
ReplyDeleteI really feel sorry For the parents and children That can not afford to the dress code And the child end up suspended so the parents still no money and a child with no education because 3 strikes your suspended that just helps us poor get poorer and middle class and rich get a education. so who benefits from the dress code don't seem fair to me.
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