PALATINE HIGH SCHOOLDRESS CODE REVIEW

By Assistant PrincipalJacquese Gilbert

OUR GOAL TODAY

1. Bring awareness to inappropriate attire2. Consistently enforce the dress policy3. Create a culture at PHS where

appropriate dress is the norm for everyone

Student Appearance Policy

Students’ dress must:

1. Not Disrupt the educational process

2. Interfere with the maintenance of a positive teaching & learning climate

3. Compromise reasonable standards of health, safety and decency

DRESS POLICE

Clothing which depicts tobacco, alcohol, or illegal substances

DRESS POLICE

Clothing which depicts graphics or wording with sexual, vulgar, lewd or indecent meanings

DRESS POLICE

Inadequate Female Clothing

- Outer layer of clothing must cover chest, hips, stomach, and mid-thigh at all times.

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DRESS POLICE

Inadequate Male Clothing

No DO Rags

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DRESS POLICE

Clothing which identifies with a gang

DRESS POLICE

Clothing that may damage school property, cause injury or be readily used

as a weapon

DRESS POLICE

Clothing with wording or graphics which depicts violence in any form

SO WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN?

SCENARIO – Dress Code Violation

En route to the faculty lounge for your lunch break, a young lady walked past you in the hallway wearing a low-cleavage blouse and “daisy duke shorts”. You are a male teacher.

*SUGGESTED APPROACH

SCENARIO – Dress Code Violation1. Ask a female staff member to intervene

or 2. Remind student that there is a dress code

for school3. Inform student that you will have to take

them to the office and they may be required to change

4. Complete CTTP referral to administrator

DRESS CODE CONSEQUENCES

1. Two minor infractions1. 1st Offense: Required Change of Attire 2. 2nd Offense: Required Change of Attire, Parent

Contact

2. Major Infraction – send student to office w/referral form

1. 3rd + Offense: Required Change of Attire, Parent Contact, Detentions, Saturday School

2. Suspension Pending Parent Conference

QUESTIONS?