APS dress code

[Anonymous]

Can anyone share their experience with the dress code, especially in middle school? DD has been wearing mostly tank tops all summer, and prefers leggings to jeans when it gets cool. She is tall and almost all shorts are shorter than fingertip length on her except boy-style basketball shorts.

Tax free weekend is coming up and I’m trying to make sure she has a wardrobe that is acceptable to the school without totally overhauling it. Especially after this last year at home it feels like she needs more than she might normally. Adults aren’t the only ones who lived in super comfy slouchy clothes this past year. She cares about fashion so will probably want to mostly wait to see what others wear, but I want to get her through the heat of September without being in violation of dress code enforcers.

[Anonymous]

I’d ask the sixth grade guidance counselor and other parents off of here. Even if there is a dress code it might not be enforced.

[Anonymous]

It’s not enforced. Your kid might get a warning but I’ve never heard of anyone actually being sent home.

Just stop by one of the high schools when schools get out. “Dress code” is purely for show.

Swanson and WL.

[Anonymous]

WL teacher - no dress code is ever enforced. nobody wants to step in that hornets' nest. I have seen some VERY revealing shorts/tanks and horrible writing on shirts (a boy at another high school wore a shirt that said "LEGALIZE EATING A** when meeting the superintendent and nobody said a word). nobody says a thing

[Anonymous]

Only thing taken seriously with regards to dress code is wearing a hoodie with the hood up. DD said a 6th grader was berated for doing that last year. She felt bad as it was their first year in MS and they had just gone back in person.

[Anonymous]

She will be fine. I was on the committee for dress code last year and we pretty much got rid of it. Leggings are a non issue.

[Anonymous]

Leggings and athletic shorts for girls not any issue at all. There are even short girls style gym shorts available at WMS pre pandemic. I would avoid spaghetti straps and bare midriffs but they might not even be flagged.

Leggings are a standard bottom with no problem at all levels.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:WL teacher - no dress code is ever enforced. nobody wants to step in that hornets' nest. I have seen some VERY revealing shorts/tanks and horrible writing on shirts (a boy at another high school wore a shirt that said "LEGALIZE EATING A** when meeting the superintendent and nobody said a word). nobody says a thing

Isn't that already legal?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:WL teacher - no dress code is ever enforced. nobody wants to step in that hornets' nest. I have seen some VERY revealing shorts/tanks and horrible writing on shirts (a boy at another high school wore a shirt that said "LEGALIZE EATING A** when meeting the superintendent and nobody said a word). nobody says a thing

Isn't that already legal?

LOL

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can anyone share their experience with the dress code, especially in middle school? DD has been wearing mostly tank tops all summer, and prefers leggings to jeans when it gets cool. She is tall and almost all shorts are shorter than fingertip length on her except boy-style basketball shorts.

Tax free weekend is coming up and I’m trying to make sure she has a wardrobe that is acceptable to the school without totally overhauling it. Especially after this last year at home it feels like she needs more than she might normally. Adults aren’t the only ones who lived in super comfy slouchy clothes this past year. She cares about fashion so will probably want to mostly wait to see what others wear, but I want to get her through the heat of September without being in violation of dress code enforcers.

In the absence of a legitimate and enforced official dress code, parents should be teaching their kids appropriate attire for the occasion. That means respectable clothing for school, appropriate work clothes according to the work environment, etc. and leaving the revealing (regardless of gender) attire for home. Unfortunately, a lot of parents think shorts that don't quite cover the butt and skirts that stop covering the butt when the person sits or bends over are perfectly fine, along with bare bellies and flip flops. Please don't let her wear anything that, when she looks at her yearbook years from now, she doesn't wonder what the heck she was thinking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can anyone share their experience with the dress code, especially in middle school? DD has been wearing mostly tank tops all summer, and prefers leggings to jeans when it gets cool. She is tall and almost all shorts are shorter than fingertip length on her except boy-style basketball shorts.

Tax free weekend is coming up and I’m trying to make sure she has a wardrobe that is acceptable to the school without totally overhauling it. Especially after this last year at home it feels like she needs more than she might normally. Adults aren’t the only ones who lived in super comfy slouchy clothes this past year. She cares about fashion so will probably want to mostly wait to see what others wear, but I want to get her through the heat of September without being in violation of dress code enforcers.

In the absence of a legitimate and enforced official dress code, parents should be teaching their kids appropriate attire for the occasion. That means respectable clothing for school, appropriate work clothes according to the work environment, etc. and leaving the revealing (regardless of gender) attire for home. Unfortunately, a lot of parents think shorts that don't quite cover the butt and skirts that stop covering the butt when the person sits or bends over are perfectly fine, along with bare bellies and flip flops. Please don't let her wear anything that, when she looks at her yearbook years from now, she doesn't wonder what the heck she was thinking.

Sure Karen. Time to land your helicopter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:WL teacher - no dress code is ever enforced. nobody wants to step in that hornets' nest. I have seen some VERY revealing shorts/tanks and horrible writing on shirts (a boy at another high school wore a shirt that said "LEGALIZE EATING A** when meeting the superintendent and nobody said a word). nobody says a thing

Isn't that already legal?

LOL

not going to lie, that was my first thought when I saw the shirt and made me feel bad for whoever his government teacher is!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can anyone share their experience with the dress code, especially in middle school? DD has been wearing mostly tank tops all summer, and prefers leggings to jeans when it gets cool. She is tall and almost all shorts are shorter than fingertip length on her except boy-style basketball shorts.

Tax free weekend is coming up and I’m trying to make sure she has a wardrobe that is acceptable to the school without totally overhauling it. Especially after this last year at home it feels like she needs more than she might normally. Adults aren’t the only ones who lived in super comfy slouchy clothes this past year. She cares about fashion so will probably want to mostly wait to see what others wear, but I want to get her through the heat of September without being in violation of dress code enforcers.

In the absence of a legitimate and enforced official dress code, parents should be teaching their kids appropriate attire for the occasion. That means respectable clothing for school, appropriate work clothes according to the work environment, etc. and leaving the revealing (regardless of gender) attire for home. Unfortunately, a lot of parents think shorts that don't quite cover the butt and skirts that stop covering the butt when the person sits or bends over are perfectly fine, along with bare bellies and flip flops. Please don't let her wear anything that, when she looks at her yearbook years from now, she doesn't wonder what the heck she was thinking.

Sure Karen. Time to land your helicopter.

+1

Amazing your “regardless of gender” didn’t apply to what you actually wrote. Funny how people think dress codes are sexist...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can anyone share their experience with the dress code, especially in middle school? DD has been wearing mostly tank tops all summer, and prefers leggings to jeans when it gets cool. She is tall and almost all shorts are shorter than fingertip length on her except boy-style basketball shorts.

Tax free weekend is coming up and I’m trying to make sure she has a wardrobe that is acceptable to the school without totally overhauling it. Especially after this last year at home it feels like she needs more than she might normally. Adults aren’t the only ones who lived in super comfy slouchy clothes this past year. She cares about fashion so will probably want to mostly wait to see what others wear, but I want to get her through the heat of September without being in violation of dress code enforcers.

In the absence of a legitimate and enforced official dress code, parents should be teaching their kids appropriate attire for the occasion. That means respectable clothing for school, appropriate work clothes according to the work environment, etc. and leaving the revealing (regardless of gender) attire for home. Unfortunately, a lot of parents think shorts that don't quite cover the butt and skirts that stop covering the butt when the person sits or bends over are perfectly fine, along with bare bellies and flip flops. Please don't let her wear anything that, when she looks at her yearbook years from now, she doesn't wonder what the heck she was thinking.

Sure Karen. Time to land your helicopter.

+1

Amazing your “regardless of gender” didn’t apply to what you actually wrote. Funny how people think dress codes are sexist...

I see bare midriffs from kids regardless of gender. I see short shorts on kids regardless of gender. Nevertheless, people who cry sexist regarding dress codes don't seem to understand that girls' fashion is more varied and more often in violation of decency. I don't think boys' exposed butt cracks are any better or any more appropriate. Don't think any kid needs to wear spaghetti straps and too-short shirts to school.

Dress codes aren't sexist. The gist of a dress code is for EVERYone to dress appropriately and decently. How is that sexist?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can anyone share their experience with the dress code, especially in middle school? DD has been wearing mostly tank tops all summer, and prefers leggings to jeans when it gets cool. She is tall and almost all shorts are shorter than fingertip length on her except boy-style basketball shorts.

Tax free weekend is coming up and I’m trying to make sure she has a wardrobe that is acceptable to the school without totally overhauling it. Especially after this last year at home it feels like she needs more than she might normally. Adults aren’t the only ones who lived in super comfy slouchy clothes this past year. She cares about fashion so will probably want to mostly wait to see what others wear, but I want to get her through the heat of September without being in violation of dress code enforcers.

In the absence of a legitimate and enforced official dress code, parents should be teaching their kids appropriate attire for the occasion. That means respectable clothing for school, appropriate work clothes according to the work environment, etc. and leaving the revealing (regardless of gender) attire for home. Unfortunately, a lot of parents think shorts that don't quite cover the butt and skirts that stop covering the butt when the person sits or bends over are perfectly fine, along with bare bellies and flip flops. Please don't let her wear anything that, when she looks at her yearbook years from now, she doesn't wonder what the heck she was thinking.

Sure Karen. Time to land your helicopter.

If "Karen" draws a line of decency and appropriateness for her children's behaviors and hygiene and dress, then I'll be happy to be "Karen." Drawing a line doesn't mean helicoptering - it's called basic parenting. No, I don't believe allowing "anything goes" for young children is appropriate. It is appropriate to establish acceptable behaviors. It is not squelching their identity or self-expression. "Karen" and "helicopter" aren't synonymous. You can be a Karen without being a helicopter parent and vice versa. Helicoptering is smothering. Karen's just entitled and makes sure everyone knows it. Employers will enforce a dress code. Schools should be preparing students for the workforce. They can start by teaching kids appropriate attire for the school (aka "work") environment.