The district said it’s transitioned towards a gender-neutral dress code which gives students more opportunity to dress how they want, but parents say otherwise.
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Credit: Leah Shields Fairness and consistency need to be a focus with our dress code, Abbatinozzi said.
Abbatinozzi recommends adding a statute to the policy to set the standard. He always wants to remove the word revealing and define distracting in character to mean clothing, piercing, and accessories that display profanities, violence, discriminatory messages, suggestive phrases or symbols of alcohol, drugs or tobacco.
He says midriff exposure is probably the biggest issue with school deans, but he did not mention revising the language on that policy.
Board member Kelly Barrera asked for Abbatinozzi to remove the language prohibiting excessive use of makeup.