Dress and Grooming
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Preview Of Draft Student Dress Code Policy For The 2022/2023 School Year
RUSD Families,
Over this past year, the student dress code policy was collaboratively updated by students and staff. The dress code was revised to support the learning environment by promoting student behavior, to reduce social conflict and peer pressure and allow students to feel comfortable to focus on learning.
Please preview the draft recommendations and provide feedback by April 29. This policy is recommended to the Board of Education, with the goal to implement the updated policy in the 2022/2023 school year.
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Draft Board Policy 5132
STUDENTS
DRESS AND GROOMING
Purpose
This district-wide policy provides guidance to school sites to maintain safe, healthy, and effective learning environments.
Position
The Board of Education believes that:
- Students and parents/guardians shall be informed about the school dress code at the beginning of the year and whenever the dress code is revised. A student who violates this dress code shall be subject to progressive interventions.
- Interventions and/or other means of correction should minimize the impacts on learning time and participation in school events.
- Student dress code should be free from stereotypes based on body maturity, body size, race, gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, gender identity, or cultural observance.
(cf. 4119.22/4219.22/4319.22 - Dress and Grooming)
(cf. 5145.2 - Freedom of Speech/Expression)
(cf. 0450 - Comprehensive Safety Plan)
Requirements
Basic Principle:
The student dress code provides expectations to students, staff, and families regarding appropriate attire for school. When students come to school, they will dress in accordance with the following guidelines.
Students Must Wear
- Shirt/Top/Dress (must have at least one strap to secure over the shoulder or neck during school and school-sponsored activities)
- Pants/Sweatpants/Shorts/Skirt/Dress (that fully cover undergarments)
- Shoes: activity-specific shoes are required for physical education (PE) and co-curricular activities
- Attire for activities as part of a specific curriculum (for example, job/career readiness, JROTC)
- Students shall be allowed to wear sun-protective clothing, including school-appropriate hats and sunglasses for outdoor use during the school day, without a physician’s note or prescription. School sites are authorized to establish a policy regarding the use of sunscreen. (EC 35183.5)
Students Cannot Wear
- Clothing or accessories with images or language that:
- is violent
- depicts drugs or alcohol (or any illegal item or activity) or their use
- include hate speech, profanity, or pornography (including symbols)
- is likely to create a hostile or intimidating environment based on any protected class
- Visible undergarments (straps on undergarments and visible waistbands are acceptable).
- Undergarments and swimwear of similar design worn as outerwear.
- Headwear or clothing that obscures the face (except as a religious observance or health/safety-related guidelines, including health and safety facial coverings)
- In consultation with law enforcement or other gang experts, the school administration may limit clothing or apparel where there is a reasonable basis for identifying such clothing or apparel where a gang is affiliated. Limitations and prohibitions will be applied equally to all students. In no instance will a student’s clothing or apparel be identified as gang-related based on the student’s race, national origin, or ancestry.
Uniforms
In order to promote student safety and discourage theft, peer rivalry, and/or gang activity, the principal, staff, and families at a school may establish a reasonable dress code requiring students to wear uniforms. Such a dress code may be included as part of the school safety plan and must be presented to the Board for approval. The Board shall approve the plan upon determining that it is necessary to protect the health and safety of the school's students.
If a school's plan to require uniforms is adopted, the Superintendent or designee shall establish procedures whereby parents/guardians may choose to have their children exempted from the school uniform policy. Students shall not be penalized academically, otherwise discriminated against, or denied attendance to school if their parents/guardians so decide.
The Superintendent or designee shall ensure that resources are identified to assist economically disadvantaged students in obtaining uniforms.
Parent Notification of Student Dress Code
The Parent/Student Handbook shall be provided to each student at the beginning of the school year and any student upon enrollment after the beginning of the school year. The school may choose to separately notify parents/guardians of the school's student dress code. This notification should include the following:
1. A copy of the student dress code.
2. Designated contacts should the parent/guardian need economic assistance to comply.
3. Any consequences for failure to follow the student dress code.
4. The complaint procedure and contact person(s) at the school.
Progressive Interventions
The primary responsibility for a student’s attire resides with the student and their parent/guardian. The school district and individual schools are responsible for ensuring that student attire does not interfere with the health or safety of any student, and that student attire does not contribute to a hostile or intimidating environment for any student.
A student who violates the dress code shall be subject to progressive interventions. Dress code violations should be resolved quickly to reduce loss of instructional time and addressed privately with individual students. No academic grade of a student shall be adversely affected based on non-compliance with the dress code, except Physical Education when failure to wear appropriate apparel arises from circumstances within the student’s control. (See EC Section 49066(c)).
School sites will implement progressive interventions for dress code violations:
- Warning and self-correct dress code violation
- Offer students a change of nondescript and/or school-specific clothing
- Offer parent/guardian the opportunity to bring a change of clothes
- Repeated violations may result in a parent-school conference and/or other means of correction
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Repaso Del Borrador De La Política De Vestuario Para El Ciclo Escolar 2022/2023
Familias del RUSD:
Durante este último año, la política de vestuario fue actualizada colaborativamente por los alumnos y el personal. Se modificó la política de vestuario para apoyar el entorno de aprendizaje al promover el comportamiento de los alumnos, para reducir los conflictos sociales y la presión de los compañeros y permitir que los alumnos se sientan cómodos para concentrarse en el aprendizaje.
Repase las recomendaciones del borrador y proporcione comentarios para el 29 de abril. Se le recomienda esta política a la Junta de Educación, con la meta de implementar la política actualizada para el ciclo escolar 2022/2023.
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