Personal Appearance Regulations
In this section:
BOT Policy JCDBA - Personal Appearance Regulations
Dress and grooming codes 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 still in school to observe basic regulations set for the group as a whole. Keeping this total concept in mind and realizing a need to satisfy peer group desires for current fashion, the OSSD BOT will make an effort periodically to restructure the dress and grooming code according to current conditions. See OSSD BOT Policy JCDBA - Personal Appearance Regulations.
It is virtually impossible to write a regulation that will adequately cover every detail of appropriate conduct and dress. Therefore, it is necessary for the administrator to make judgments as to whether a student is properly dressed and/or is manifesting appropriate behavior so as to not cause a disruption or interference with school activities. We are attempting to eliminate as much confusion as possible so our attention can be turned to educational pursuits.
Modifications to the dress code may be allowed by school administrators for special occasions or other reasons deemed necessary by the administration.
Personal Appearance Regulations (Grades 7-12)
- Shoes must be worn. Slippers, 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 suggestive, indecent, or obscene nature will be allowed.
- Pajamas, bathing suits, blankets, and pillows are prohibited.
- Clothing must cover the shoulder of students with a garment of at least three (3) inches in width. No muscle shirts, basketball jerseys, tank tops, or spaghetti strap tops will be permitted unless worn as a vest-type garment over a shirt with sleeves.
- Halter tops will not be permitted.
- Shorts and skirts must be at least fingertip length.
- No tank tops, halters, tops with spaghetti straps, or tops that expose the midriff area when hands are raised above the head shall be worn. Midriffs, cleavage, or backs will not be exposed.
- Underclothing will be worn.
- Sheer blouses will not be permitted unless an undershirt is worn underneath. Garments worn under sheer blouses must follow the dress code, having shoulder straps at least 3” wide, and must conceal underwear and/or cleavage.
- Head coverings, bandanas, caps, hats, headdress (including the hood of a shirt or sweatshirt), etc will not be worn in buildings unless there has been prior approval from administration.
- Any style of clothing tending toward immodesty will be prohibited.
- Facial hair must be neatly trimmed.
- Gang-related apparel or any apparel conveying racial overtones is prohibited.
- Clothing, hats, caps, or other personal property of suggestive or inappropriate nature including but not limited to items promoting or advertising tobacco, alcohol, illegal drugs, obscene, lewd, or vulgar comments/pictures, sexual innuendos, harassing, threatening, or demeaning to a certain group of people are prohibited.
- All pants, shorts, skirts, etc., shall be worn with the waistband or beltline around the waist and above the hips. No sagging is allowed. Pants/shorts or other lower-body garments must completely cover undergarments at all times. Any exposing holes in pants or other lower-body garments must come no higher than fingertip length.
- Clothing, hats, caps, or other personal property which shall cause a disruption to the learning process or which serves as 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 (including trench coats) shall be prohibited.
- Students shall not wear any attire which shall impinge upon the health, safety, and welfare of the students and employees within the district.
- Leggings, jeggings, and yoga pants may be worn as pants or primary cover. All tops worn with leggings, jeggings, and yoga pants must be of appropriate length.
Items or issues not covered in the above regulations that are distracting to either a teacher or student should be brought to the attention of the administration. Students will not dress immodestly; however, in order to ensure the personal appearance regulations are upheld, the administration will be asked to monitor these regulations and make necessary determinations concerning the appropriateness of all jewelry, clothes, and hair. If a student’s dress comes into question, the appropriateness of the dress will be determined by the school administrator.
- OSHS
- OSMS
Student Identification Badges
The safety of our students and staff is non-negotiable as it supports our staff in identifying students and trespassers. As we work to keep our students safe, student identification badges will be provided for every student. Badges must be worn on a lanyard, and visible around the student’s neck at all times while on the bus, on campus, and at all school events.
Student identification badges authorize students to board the bus, be on campus, move from class to class / throughout the school, and allow our students to participate in school-related functions. The initial ID badge and lanyard are provided by the school at no cost to the student; however, if the ID is lost, damaged, or altered the student is responsible for the replacement fee.
A student who does not have his/her ID that is readable and in good condition (legible) will be required to purchase a new badge.
- If a student is found to be without a badge, they will be issued an after-school detention and/or ISI.
- If a student is found to be falsifying a badge, it will result in an automatic 3 days of ISI.
- Replacement badges are $5.00.
- OSMS