Does FCPS have a dress code for teachers now?
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Anonymous
I'm in my 8th year and I start off the year only wearing jeans on Fridays. By January, it is Thursdays and Fridays and by April, it's any day I feel like it. |
Anonymous
Friday is just a day like any other. I teach in an ES. I can wear Dockers or slacks and a nice polo or sport shirt and it’s fine. Wear the same sport shirt, a nice pair of jeans and throw on a sport coat and I get quite a few compliments. |
Anonymous
This is a ridiculous reason to not allow teachers to wear jeans. My kids' pediatricians, my own doctor, our CPA, our estate planning attorney, etc all wear jeans. I work in a special education classroom and spend more time than I'd like to think about helping kids with various toileting and hygiene tasks. I also spend a lot of time on the floor with the kids. There's absolutely no reason I shouldn't be allowed to wear jeans, and frankly, our PHA should be allowed to wear scrubs. |
Anonymous
| A couple of years ago I posted about my kid’s teacher In MCPS who wore running clothes to school most days and got slammed. Teachers are role models right? |
Anonymous
I’m a 20 year teacher. Report back in another 5, ok-I will! |
Anonymous
How is Friday different from Tuesday or Thursday? Why Friday? |
Anonymous
| A friend went for a job interview the other day. She said a lot of bright young people were there in the office--wearing shorts and flip flops. She was surprised and overdressed. |
Anonymous
I am the principal of a Title 1 school in FCPS. I’m fine with teachers wearing jeans any day of the week as long as they’re neat (no rips, threads hanging). The only t-shirts with writing that anyone can wear are school spirit shirts. My expectation is that you’re on the floor with kids all week, so you need to be comfortable. |
Anonymous
| I’m another 20 year teacher and often wear jeans. I don’t go in with an old shirt but a nice top. These outfits probably cost more and look more put together than the dresses I wore when I was a first year teacher. Casual outfits are more practical for me to be active with children all day inside an old building. I stopped wearing dresses and heels many years ago. How staff dresses comes from admin. We have a more casual admin staff at the moment. That could change again and in a few years we could all be back in dress clothes. |
Anonymous
| A principal who gets spun up on what teachers wear needs to back up. It’s more about the big picture, isn’t it? |
Anonymous
| What about leggings, a T-shirt and slip on shoes? |
Anonymous
This is such an antiquated theory. You don’t have to be dressed nice to be professional or important or affluent or anything. Way to have a principal who looks down on low income kids. But FCPS has lots of antiquated policies- dresses for field trips, black pants/white shirts for orchestra, etc... let’s teach our kids to be good people not that they have to wear certain things to be accepted. |
Anonymous
DP. Oh, come on. Now you're being ridiculous. I wear slip-on shoes all the time - flats, ballet flats, mules, etc. What on earth is wrong with slip-on shoes? Even pumps are slip-on. As are as leggings are concerned, I even wear them. I usually wear a tunic for a top or leggings under a cotton jean skirt. I like a PP's point about the big picture. Do you want me to be more concerned about the quality of the learning going on in my classroom or more concerned about keeping my dress looking neat and clean and not sliding up when I sit down on the floor with my students? Think about it and let me know. 
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Anonymous
Then you need to befriend a new teacher, and see it for yourself. |
Anonymous
That will shorten the tendons in the backs of your legs over time, and lead to foot issues. Please switch to flats if you can. |