Are you for or against your schools dress code?

I like the idea of a dress code(no uniforms but dress pants and solid color collared shirt. but it does not work like that . the low income children can not afford to buy the nice things that higher income families can. Some of the children do not like to wear the shirt tucked in or a belt,etc. and it stiffles their feeling of uniqueness. My son ended up quitting school because of the dress code. The principle said he was in his office moe than any other child. but 95 % of the time it was for dress code violation. once he got a pair of pants and the principle okayed them after he cut off a small pocket on the leg. The same pants got him sent home a couple of weeks later. I knew one more popular girl who would get up some mornings and think what can i wear to school and get away with breaking the dress code and she never! got sent home. One boy got sent home for not tucking in a sweater. Do you tuck in a sweater? and what about the children who are over weight? tucking in and wearing a belt will only add to the apperance of being over weight. If our school went to a uniform that he school supplied and the parents paid a fee for, maybe based on their wages, i think it would be better. Not a uniform like in the catholic, private schools but a little more laxxed and only a couple of different styles for them to chose.

I dont mind the dress code,what I think is bad is when they are told how long their hair can be,what type of backpacks they have to use,whether or not the can wear earrings... the worst things in schools these days is the extremes,you cant take vitamins at school,it takes many forms filed just to give your child tylenol,if you draw a picture of anything vaguely pertaining to violence you are expelled,you cant pray or discuss your religion... there are many other things going on in our schools we should be focused on then weather or not our children should wear uniforms.

I am for the dress code but then the school supplying the dress is quite expensive.

Well, to be honest I haven't made up my mind yet. For one thing, school uniforms would take some presser off kids that cant afford the name brands. On the other hand, it takes away from individuality. When I was in school, you had to stand up straight & hold your arms down to your side. If your shorts didnt come to the tip of your finger tips, it was a dress code vilation. I didnt mind that to much because I have short arms that come about 3" from my butt so i could pretty much were em as short as I wanted. But there was one girls whose fingers came down to her knees. She had to wear boys shorts or pants. (they simply dont make girls shorts that long.) So that wasnt really fair. Plus you werent suppose to have any clevage showing. I wore some of the lowest cut shirts you've ever seen & never got in trouble. But if someone that was on the heavy side or didn't have nice boobs wore a low cut shirt, they would have to change. That's probably because the principal and vice principal were both men. (this was in high school) I think it is stupid that they send kids home for a dress code vilation. I use to try my best to get a vilation just so I could go home. But then the vice principal decided that instead of sendin me home, he would take me to Wal-Mart (right down the road from school) & buy me some "appropriate" clothing. Which most of the time, they still violated the dress code. They had extra clothing at the school but I refused to were it because I said that i was afraid I'd catch body lice or something (just an excuse so they would let me go home really) I do think there needs to be some type of dress code but it needs to be fair to all. maybe uniforms are the best way to go.

me if i had kids it should matter but i would want them to dress in clothes they didnt want

i hate uniforms.especially the one my second school had yellow and greent hink about it how absurd!i would certainly want my children to express themselves differently when their generation comes.i think we need to have democracy imposed as early as school. i wouldn't want my kid to grow up and wear uniforms like a dork1

it dont matter the dress codes kids are still going to do what they do which is put others in a group u still gonna have jocks preps nerds and so on and so on

Actually, I am against school uniforms for the simple fact that all kids are different and have different personalities and they dress to express these personalities so to stuff them in a uniform would be to stuff out there individuality and imagination and personality the stuff that makes us what we are.

i dont

Yes i will agree for dress code in schools.

Uniforms are good for students at school level. They promote discipline and equality. Looks as if they are a group for a purpose. It also looks cute.

my daughter doesn't start school until september but i know of some of the dress code rules. i agree that young kids shouldn't wear tops that don't show their belly's or jeans that don't show underwear. your not there to show off your body your there to learn.

I don't think it's a good idea at all because all it does is try to take away the child's individuality. Also, they will never be able to "equalize" everyone because there will always be the child who wears the expensive jewelry or drives the expensive car. Uniforms can't eliminate children putting a status on other children. One other gripe that I have with uniforms is that they are now required in public schools, and I just don't see how this is feasible, when some children's parents can barely afford pencils and paper, and now they have to buy a certain type of uniform at a certain store, when they could have clothed their children for a lot more cheaply otherwise.

I m in favor of school dress code...

to an extent i think there should be a dress code,for some odd reason our school systems are not strict enough ,they do need to be stricter

i'm for uniforms that are simple, and easy to afford. one charter school here uses jeans & school t shirt with sneakers. all items are affordable if you buy the non-designer, and if you need it, the school should subsidize it.

I think they need to be more concerned about the kids education instead of the clothes as long as they are not exposing there private body parts.

I would like to know exactly what my kids school's dress code is. At one point they were talking about uniforms but that was voted out. The boys aren't supposed to wear hats in class, but it seems to be at the teacher's discretion. I can't even begin to figure out where they stand on hair or tshirts that say certain things. It'd be nice if they would put the code in writing, but they never have.

sometimes. our school just recently implemented a uniform policy for the first time for boys and everybody went nuts. personally, i have nothing against wearing uniforms but im just against our school uniform since it really looks so bad. it doesn't fit the color of the school and its design is really bad.

i didn't have dress code at my school..besides no short shorts..or flip flops. But they did try to implement a school uniform...it didn't happen. I don't know that it is a good idea to make everyone dress the same way, kids like to be different & show there own style. Some people in my town brought up the idea that making kids wear a uniform would make the poorer kids feel better because they would be wearing the same thing as the preppy students. I don't think this would work, i think that there would still be groups & people making fun of other people. theres my 2 cents