Tuesday, April 13, 1999
Campbell Co. school debating dress code
BY RAY SCHAEFER
Enquirer contributor
ALEXANDRIA — Students at Campbell County Middle School may have to leave their shorts at home come August.
Same with the spandex tights, foot-long chain-and-cloth key straps, jeans full of holes that drag the ground and purple hair dye.
The school's site-based council Monday unanimously approved a dress code that would take effect with the 1999-2000 school year.
“That's not set in stone,” Middle School Principal Mike Henry said.
A final reading is expected May 3. The policy is based on one Conner Middle School in Hebron has used since 1996.
Shorts, spandex, long key chains and unnatural hair color were on a list of 14 items. Others included:
• Tank tops and team jerseys unless an appropriate shirt is worn underneath.
• Skirts above mid-thigh.
• Hats and jackets once a student is indoors.
• Sandals without a back strap.
• Anything exposing a student's stomach or underwear.
• Tearaway sweat pants with side snaps.
• And anything with obscene, rude or crude writing or symbols pertaining to alcohol, tobacco, drugs, violence, sex or racial slurs.
Holly Pape, a member of a committee that has studied the dress code issue since the fall, said the idea came up because Mr. Henry and others noticed students were tripping over the legs of their baggy jeans.
“There was no written policy,” Mrs. Pape said.
Though the policy has not received final approval, the only wiggle room appeared to be over the issue of shorts.
Council member Wilma Johnston, a seventh-grade special programs teacher, seemed willing to allow students to wear shorts during the first 20 days of the year, though she is against them in the spring.
“They (will) have been wearing them all summer,” Ms. Johnston said. “In the spring, it's a big upheaval. Plus, there's a growth spurt through the year. Some of the kids are trying to wear the shorts they wore in the fall.”
Council member Terri Straub is opposed to shorts altogether.
“It's more of a pain than anything,” she said. “We rode buses that weren't air-condi tioned. We made it through life. I'd like those kids to dress decently.”
Two sixth-graders, Christina Guidugli of Cold Spring and Julie Hornsby of Alexandria, were at the meeting; and they said they can live with the proposed rules, though Julie would like the shorts and tearaways to stay.
“I think (shorts) make me more comfortable,” Julie said. “All my friends that wear (tearaways) wear shorts under them.”
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