Dress code at FCPS middle schools

[Anonymous]

Does your FCPS middle school allow leggings with shirts that do not cover the rear end? This seems to be the unfortunate new trend with middle school girls and I'm surprised that it's allowed. I know most FCPS high schools do not allow this.

[Anonymous]

Doesn't matter what the school allows, because we do not allow this. Other girls may dress as they wish and it is a matter between them, their guardian(s), and the school (if applicable) but in our family leggings are not pants for daily wear once our daughters have reached school age.

[Anonymous]

19:30 again. Dress codes are largely left up to the individual schools at the principal's discretion. The district policy is very broad. Here's the most recent version I could find online (note- I did not dig very deeply): http://www.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/8KSH9P476E90/$file/R2613.pdf

Excerpt of the most relevant part: "clothing that exposes cleavage, private parts, the midriff, or that is otherwise sexually provocative, is prohibited. Examples of prohibited clothing include but are not limited to: sagging or low-cut pants ... clothing constructed of see-through materials ..."

Since most leggings are pretty poorly made and tend to show at least panty line if not worse, the above might be grounds for principals to ban leggings worn as pants if they deem them to be indecent. I certainly consider them to be so.

[Anonymous]

My m.s. daughter is very (naturally) thin. She wears leggings and a shirt sometimes but it doesn't look obnoxious because she isn't all about that bass.

[Anonymous]

This should fall under the verbiage "clothing should conform to standards of...good taste and decency."

Leggings as pants in the older than 4 crowd is neither tasteful or decent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My m.s. daughter is very (naturally) thin. She wears leggings and a shirt sometimes but it doesn't look obnoxious because she isn't all about that bass.

A skinny ass isn't any more tasteful than the other asses.

[Anonymous]

My m.s. daughter is very (naturally) thin. She wears leggings and a shirt sometimes but it doesn't look obnoxious because she isn't all about that bass.

Oh, I see. You think your daughter should be able to violate the dress code because she's thin.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

My m.s. daughter is very (naturally) thin. She wears leggings and a shirt sometimes but it doesn't look obnoxious because she isn't all about that bass.

Oh, I see. You think your daughter should be able to violate the dress code because she's thin.

???

Our ms doesn't have that in the dress code. But my, don't you have a body-type chip on your shoulder?

[Anonymous]

This was a trend when I was in junior high and high school 25+ years ago - it's nothing new. And I'm annoyed that schools ban it, particularly when the rule is applied only to girls. What kind of message does that send? It may not be a great look for some, but unless it is affecting their performance, why do you care?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This was a trend when I was in junior high and high school 25+ years ago - it's nothing new. And I'm annoyed that schools ban it, particularly when the rule is applied only to girls. What kind of message does that send? It may not be a great look for some, but unless it is affecting their performance, why do you care?

I'm guessing that if a guy wanted to wear leggings, the administration would have an issue with that too.

[Anonymous]

Leggings are NOT pants -- put the word out!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This was a trend when I was in junior high and high school 25+ years ago - it's nothing new. And I'm annoyed that schools ban it, particularly when the rule is applied only to girls. What kind of message does that send? It may not be a great look for some, but unless it is affecting their performance, why do you care?

I'm guessing that if a guy wanted to wear leggings, the administration would have an issue with that too.

Except that's not how the dress codes are written - they target the girls, and I have a huge issue with that (and my DC is a boy, FWIW). Again, unless how the kids are dressing is affecting their *own* performance, it shouldn't be a matter for the school. The leggings regulations, for example, seem targeted at how others (boys, adults) interpret how the girls dress - that's wrong on so many levels.

[Anonymous]

My m.s. daughter is very (naturally) thin. She wears leggings and a shirt sometimes but it doesn't look obnoxious because she isn't all about that bass.


Oh, I see. You think your daughter should be able to violate the dress code because she's thin.



???

Our ms doesn't have that in the dress code. But my, don't you have a body-type chip on your shoulder?[/quote]

Um, no. I am a size 4. I was commenting only on the sense of entitlement that you think your daughter deserves because she's thin.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

My m.s. daughter is very (naturally) thin. She wears leggings and a shirt sometimes but it doesn't look obnoxious because she isn't all about that bass.


Oh, I see. You think your daughter should be able to violate the dress code because she's thin.



???

Our ms doesn't have that in the dress code. But my, don't you have a body-type chip on your shoulder?[/quote]

Um, no. I am a size 4. I was commenting only on the sense of entitlement that you think your daughter deserves because she's thin.

Not PP, but you do sound like you're overreacting. All she said is the leggings don't look obscene because her child is thin. I get what she's saying. My daughter is so thin that the correct length leggings are baggy on her. They definitely don't cling to her. While my rule is generally leggings are worn under a dress in winter or with a shirt that's very long, my daughter comes down every once in a while in leggings and a shirt that's a few inches below her waste and I've let it go. If there was an explicit policy saying no leggings, running late or not, I'd make her change, but for some vague indecency standard, once every few months is not a big deal when there is nothing clinging, and definitely in no way obscene. I think that's all pp was saying.

[Anonymous]

Leggings aren't obscene on anyone, get a grip people.