Teacher Dress Code Mirrors Student Standards---Whitfield County Schools employees now have an official dress code. Assistant Superintendent Judy Gilreath said the staff dress code approved this month by a committee was designed with help from attorneys, principals and teachers at various levels.
It covers a series of nine “acceptable standards” that are basically the same as the standards for students.
According to the new code, clothes must be sized appropriately with “no holes, frays or tears.”
Visible piercings other than the ear are banned as are skirts, dresses or shorts shorter than knee length, anything revealing cleavage, exposed midriffs, spaghetti straps, one-strap tops and sleeveless tops with undergarments showing.
Also banned are clothes and tattoos that have anything that promotes gang membership or cult activities; anything advocating alcohol, tobacco, drugs, drug paraphernalia or “other unlawful activity”; and anything that indicates discrimination “on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, religion or disability.”
Gauges — objects used to stretch a hole in the earlobe — are likewise banned.
Until now, principals at each individual school have enforced professional dress, sometimes with varying results.
Jeff Adair, a Varnell Elementary School teacher and past president of the Whitfield Education Association, said Tuesday he hadn’t seen the dress code since it was presented to Board of Education members on Monday.
“I totally support it if what passed — and I haven’t seen it — but if it’s what I heard was being recommended I totally support not asking the students to dress in a more professional manner than teachers are asked to,” he said. “I think that you have to have some standards.”
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It covers a series of nine “acceptable standards” that are basically the same as the standards for students.
According to the new code, clothes must be sized appropriately with “no holes, frays or tears.”
Visible piercings other than the ear are banned as are skirts, dresses or shorts shorter than knee length, anything revealing cleavage, exposed midriffs, spaghetti straps, one-strap tops and sleeveless tops with undergarments showing.
Also banned are clothes and tattoos that have anything that promotes gang membership or cult activities; anything advocating alcohol, tobacco, drugs, drug paraphernalia or “other unlawful activity”; and anything that indicates discrimination “on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, religion or disability.”
Gauges — objects used to stretch a hole in the earlobe — are likewise banned.
Until now, principals at each individual school have enforced professional dress, sometimes with varying results.
Jeff Adair, a Varnell Elementary School teacher and past president of the Whitfield Education Association, said Tuesday he hadn’t seen the dress code since it was presented to Board of Education members on Monday.
“I totally support it if what passed — and I haven’t seen it — but if it’s what I heard was being recommended I totally support not asking the students to dress in a more professional manner than teachers are asked to,” he said. “I think that you have to have some standards.”
Read more: http://daltondailycitizen.com/local/x1561304088/Teacher-dress-code-mirrors-student-standards
