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Location: Chapel Hill, NC, formerly NoVA and Phila
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My 11th-grade daughter wore a shirt to school this year (unbeknownst to me, it was my husband's) that had a picture of a football on it and inside it said "Yuengling" and a year. A school administrator stopped her and said, "what's Yuengling?" and my daughter replied, "a football team?" And he said, "uh huh" and that was that. He didn't dress code her for it. Although, I told her it was inappropriate for school and not to wear it again.
On the other hand, when she was in 7th grade, the middle school in the same district (with the same principal actually) had a Saturday makeup snow day and my daughter wore flannel pajama pants and a t-shirt. She got dress coded and had to call me to bring her another outfit because "she wore those pants to sleep." It was ridiculous. It was a Saturday(!), and a good portion of the kids weren't even there.
Don't know if there is a law but even some public schools sometimes will reprimand students for dress deemed inappropriate for various reasons.
The "law" would be embodied in regulations allowing school systems to develop rules for dress codes. In some states those regulations would be somewhat detailed, like in Maryland, others would not.
There are a few Court cases but most deal with First Amendment freedom of speech issues, Tinker v. Des Moines, or hair length, Blaine v. Board of Education.
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