Student Dress and Grooming Standards

Because certain fads and extremes of dress and hair styling tend to attract improper attention to the individual and sometimes interfere with the normal education process, all students are expected to conform to the standards of dress and grooming outlined below when participating in any school activity. The only exceptions shall be for certain special days of activities which are declared exempt by the school principal.

A. Standards for STUDENTS:

1. Hair shall be neat, clean and well groomed. The coloring of hair with unnatural looking colors to include costume spray will not be tolerated. Boys will be expected to be clean shaven, although a well trimmed mustache may be worn.

2. Clothing shall be modest, neat, clean in good repair and shall include shoes. Clothing and/or jewelry shall not be worn which displays obscene or suggestive words or pictures or which advertises any substance which a student cannot legally possess or use. Jewelry shall not be worn in any pierced body parts other than the ears. Modesty shall include covering shoulders, midriff and back. Short shorts, biking shorts, tank tops, halter or crop tops, extremely short skirts or dresses do not meet the modesty standards in out school.

3. Wearing of bandannas, chains, or any article of clothing or jewelry that may be associated with gangs or bearing any gang symbols, names, initials, insignia or anything else which signals gang affiliation and/or is worn for the purpose of signifying gang membership, is not allowed.

4. Hats and caps shall not be worn during regular school hours.

B. If a students dress or grooming interferes with the normal education process, he/she will be asked to change whatever is in question. Continual non-compliance may result in additional disciplinary action at the discretion of the administration. The school administration will be ultimately responsible for administration of the policy.