[ApplegateRanch]

I can understand restricting gang-related or obscene clothing, or saying something like ‘shirts must have sleeves and shorts/skirts must be below the fingertips’ for basic modesty.

"In the day", 'clean, neat, modest, and in good repair' sufficed.

Interpreting & enforcing that required common sense, some thought & forethought; some basic mutual respect.

Zero tolerance removes those "value judgments", and makes the admins' day easier, at the expense of imparting any wisdom & values to go with what laughingly passes as "educating" their charges.

[Navy Patriot]

"In the day", 'clean, neat, modest, and in good repair' sufficed.

And all the kids involved would have passed your inspection based on that criteria.

required common sense, some thought & forethought; some basic mutual respect.

The educators would have failed your inspection based on that criteria.

Zero tolerance removes those "value judgments"

Only from the truly stupid and incompetent who are already the drones they seek to turn children into.