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Schools add denim to dress code
Change comes as 'opt out' clause is removed
Web posted Tuesday, July 29, 2003
By Greg Rickabaugh
| Staff Writer
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That's because the school district added denim to its list of acceptable fabrics for the mandatory uniform policy, which affects pupils in kindergarten through eighth grade.
With all the talk of school choice this year, opting out of the uniform policy is one choice parents won't have.
Last year, parents were allowed to opt out, and many did.
School board members voted in May to close that loophole and make it mandatory for everyone. They added denim as a way to extend an olive branch to parents.
"By adding denim, the school board felt like they would have a majority of people in compliance and would be able to do away with the 'opt out' provision," spokeswoman Mechelle Jordan said.
The revised dress code also mandates standard colors for tops and shirts. Acceptable colors will be solids in red, white, blue and one color of each school's choice.
When school starts Aug. 12, pupils who violate the uniform code will have a note sent home. The note will remind parents of the uniform policy and require them to sign the form and acknowledge the violation.
Subsequent violations can lead to detention and suspension in middle school. In elementary school, violations first lead to parent conferences but can ultimately lead to suspension.
"As with any new policy, there may be resistance because you can't please everybody," Ms. Jordan said.
"(But) we will enforce the uniform policy."
In high school, the dress codes remains the same, with bans on baggy clothing, untucked shirts, miniskirts, sweat pants, wind suits, flip-flops, hats, extreme hair colors, most body piercings and clothing with distracting symbols.
Each high school principal may ban other clothing deemed distracting by posting an announcement at the school.
UNIFORM POLICY
From the 2003-04 Richmond County Code of Student Conduct and Discipline:
All pants, including jeans, must be of a traditional style without cutouts or holes and without ornamentation. Any denim worn, including jeans, must be solid khaki or solid blue. The garment must be fitted at the waist, worn at the waist and not be baggy or oversized and not be frayed at the bottom. Acceptable colors for pants, slacks, skirts, shorts, dresses and jumpers are navy and khaki.
Acceptable top or shirt colors are solids of red, white, blue and one color of school choice. The school choice may include an appropriate school spirit shirt.
There will be no "opt out" provision.
Reach Greg Rickabaugh at (706) 828-3851 or greg.rickabaugh@augustachronicle.com.
--From the Wednesday, July 30, 2003 printed edition of the Augusta Chronicle
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