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I'm complaining about both. The old dress code allowed for common sense dressing for gym days and the rough and tumble of elementary school. It allowed for a modicum of choice on behalf of the child and parent. Yet it had enough rules where if offensive clothing was worn it could be taken care of. Yet the old dress code wasn't enforced so the district swung the pendulum the other way and now we have a strict dress code that hasn't fixed a thing.
Sounds like an issue with your district, not dress codes in general.
I have never heard of uniforms being suggested to reduce bullying, perhaps to prevent one upmanship. I wore uniforms and hated them. But now that I have teenagers I see how people don't supervise what their kids wear to school. Skimpy tops, booty shorts, sagging, flip flops at PE, baseball caps, etc. Do you think it should be a free for all?
EXACTLY! My younger daughter was in HS during a particularly s*l*u*t phase of dressing-extremely low cut jeans and skirts with cropped tops, etc. Her school, which was fairly new, started working on a dress code the year she was a senior.
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Originally Posted by Magritte25
No, I think we should go back to common sense. Common sense states that wearing t-shirts and jeans are ok but wearing t-shirts with offensive language is not. We seem to have discarded/lost that ability over the past 15 years or so.
Kibbiekat already said this, but sometimes common sense isn't very common. What is "offensive" language? Who gets to decide?
I went to Catholic Elementary school which had a dress code which was completely unsuited to the climate (think wool pants in 100+ temperatures). Over the years I attended, they changed it a little bit. Now, many years later, the dress code is logical, reasonably contemporary, affordable, practical, and a wonderful tool for avoiding the "what do I wear today" frustrations that particularly plague image conscious middle and high schoolers. I support dress codes that are grounded in reality and practicality.
I read the dress code. It is very, very similar to the uniform codes in FL schools. The only difference is that colors were limited to 3 with the uniform, and the shirts had the school emblem on them.
I honestly don't see what the issue is with denim or cargo pants (except they have fallen out of style). So basically you have a strict, easy to understand dress code, which is far less likely to cause confusion for parents and administrators. If kids still show up wearing jeans, that's on the parents, not the school.
If you don't like the rules, form a parent committee and work to change them.
Sounds like an issue with your district, not dress codes in general.
Agreed. I think my son's dress code has worked quite well. And it's made my life much easier. I am very much in favor of it. But it is far less extreme and draconian.
This is our current dress code. Its such a pain in the ass. Especially considering the kids can't wear other clothes on gym days or during field trips. Also, its a pain in the butt when they are out for recess jumping, running, skinning knees and the dockers get ruined.
This is no different than my kids old school and many other school dress codes I have seen. What's so difficult? Solid color pants and shirts (colors provided), no sagging pants, not super short skirts, no shoes that are going to go flying off on the playground. Sounds pretty basic to me?
As far as kids ripping their pants and whatnot, that's going to happen sometimes. That's why you get more than one pair of pants/shorts - just like your kid would have more than one pair of jeans to wear if they got ripped, correct?
Honestly I found uniforms so much easier - no having to buy trendy clothes for every day wear, no worrying about how many times she wore this outfit and might get teased, and it cut way down on laundry.
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