A growing number of students and parents are putting pressure on the St. Johns County School District to revise its dress code, calling it unfair and sexist following a March 26 building-wide inspection at Bartram Trail High School that resulted in 31 students cited for violation of the policy on that day, all female.
The school district is accepting parental input on the issue now through April 30 in its annual look at dress code policy as part of the larger student code of conduct review it does annually.
According to Bartram Trail students and parents, administrators and other school staff lined up in hallways on March 26 to monitor the wardrobe of students, with girls being asked to hold their hands over their heads to check if shirts exposed any skin on their midriff area.