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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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. [/quote]

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.[/quote]

Sure Karen. Time to land your helicopter. [/quote]

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.[/quote]

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