Here is the code:
“Golden Gate High approved a professional dress code for students last year, making it the first high school in Collier County to do so. Under the policy, students are required to wear collared or polo shirts that must be tucked in. The shirts must be in a solid color of white, gray, green, pink or khaki. The shirts must be 3 inches below the waist, which is school board policy.
“Students are allowed to wear long pants, walking shorts, skirts or dresses in black, khaki or denim fabric. Belts are required.
Presumably, he was wearing a collared shirt and long trousers as stated in the code. There is nothing to prohibit jackets and ties that I can see.
But what of the other students that may not have won in life's lottery and can't afford to dress that well?
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If the shirts must be tucked in, how do they verify if they are 3 inches below the waist?
Another instance of a policy that was not thought through.
students are required to wear collared or polo shirts that must be tucked in. The shirts must be in a solid color of white, gray, green, pink or khaki. The shirts must be 3 inches below the waist, which is school board policy. “Students are allowed to wear long pants, walking shorts, skirts or dresses in black, khaki or denim fabric. Belts are required.
So, for the reading comprehension-ly challenged, the school's dress code is as follows:
Students must wear a collared shirt - in the listed solid colors.
Students may wear black belted shorts, long pants, skirts or dresses, made of the specified fabrics (khaki or denim).
Reads to me like the whole bottom part is optional, and whoever wrote this policy did a ^&** poor job of making the rules clear. But, nowhere is there wiggle room on the top part of the student's wardrobe.
Maybe this kid just wanted to make a stink? False piety and all that.
“The shirts must be in a solid color of white, gray, green, pink or khaki”
Makes you wonder why they have a problem with blue?????