School board questioned Wednesday night about how the code can be interpreted and whether it was being imposed consistently.
Every day since school started, Vicki McWherter says, she and her sixth-grader face a morning quandary waiting in the closet. What to wear that meets Troy Community Consolidated School District 30-C's strict new dress code? "We get up every morning and struggle with what to wear," McWherter said, speaking at the Wednesday night school board meeting. "I wish we would have gone with uniforms now." Just a few weeks into the school year, frustration with the new dress code is drawing parents to board meetings with complaints. Board member Eileen Roche-Kopchak and Supt. Don White said they have had a lot of feedback from parents having problems with the code. The new rules ban popular fashion staples such as shirts with statements on them, …
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School district imposes explicit dress code prohibiting such things as dyed hair, slogan T-shirts and jeans with holes.
Skinny jeans, sleeveless tops, flip-flops and highlights in your hair are out. Hannah Montana, hoodies and shorts are in. Socks are a required element of every ensemble. How about a virtual backpack? Can you bring that to Troy Community Consolidated District 30-C schools this year? Not exactly. The virtual backpack is a new Web posting site where the schools and student-centered organizations can post fliers they would otherwise send home with kids. You can find it on the district Web site, www.troy30c.org. The virtual backpack and the new dress code are a sampling of the changes kids and parents will be learning about as they come back to Troy schools this fall. Administrators are billing the new attire guidelines as a "simplified" dress …
