Personal Appearance Regulations (K-3)
OSSD BOT Policy JCDBA - Personal Appearance Regulations
Dress and grooming are based upon certain sound foundations, not just arbitrarily selected and dictatorially enforced for no cause. Laws surrounding indecent exposure, conditions necessitating safety and personal well being, health, and sanitation are some of the basic fundamentals. Conditions conducive to learning must not be impaired because of temporary and individual fads. In order for students to be able to cope with even larger restrictions and responsibilities, they must learn while in school to observe basic regulations set forth for the group as a whole. Keeping this total concept in mind, and realizing a need to satisfy peer group desires for current fashions, the BOT makes an effort periodically to restructure the dress and grooming code according to current conditions. See OSSD BOT Policy JCDBA - Personal Appearance Regulations.
- Shoes must be worn. Taps, cleats, wheels and spikes on shoes will not be permitted except in appropriate settings.
- No excessively large, torn, or worn clothing will be permitted.
- No patches, emblems, or advertisements of a violent, suggestive, indecent, or obscene nature will be allowed.
- Slacks, jumpsuits, jeans, and shorts of moderate length may be worn.
- Appropriate underclothing will be worn.
- Any clothing tending toward immodesty will be prohibited.
- Head coverings, caps, hats, headdress (including the hood of a shirt or sweatshirt), etc, will not be worn unless there has been prior approval from administration.
- Muscle shirts, basketball jerseys, and tank tops will not be permitted unless worn as a vest-type garment over a shirt.
- Clothing, hats, caps, or other personal property which advertises, or promotes the use of alcohol, tobacco, or illegal drugs shall be prohibited.
- Clothing, hats, caps, or other personal property which convey obscene, lewd, or vulgar comments, messages, or portraits shall be prohibited.
- Clothing, hats, caps, or other personal property with sexual innuendos shall be prohibited.
- All pants, shorts, skirts, etc., shall be worn with the waistband or beltline around the waist and above the hips.
- Clothing, hats, caps, or personal property which shall cause a disruption to the learning process or which might be a hazard to the safety of students shall be prohibited.
- Anything not covered in the code that is distracting to either a teacher or student should be brought to the attention of the administration.
- For the safety and well being of all students and staff, coats, jackets, windbreakers, vests, and other similar outer garments which extend below the knee in length shall be prohibited.
- Students shall not wear any attire which shall impinge upon the health, safety and/or welfare of the students and employees within the district.