Dress and Grooming Policies
For information on Gadsden County School Policies, please review
the Student Code of Conduct.
Student Code of Conduct pp. 10 - 12 (GCPS)
VII. DRESS AND GROOMING
Rights:
Students have a right to dress comfortably.
Responsibilities:
Students have a responsibility to wear clothes that are not
dangerous to their health or safety and to dress in a manner that
is not disrupting to the educational process. Clothes worn should
not advertise drugs, gangs, alcohol, tobacco, inappropriate
language and/or sexual behavior.
Rule:
Student will dress and groom in such a way as to express
personal preferences within the guidelines of the school dress
code. Students are prohibited from wearing bandannas, dropped
pants, low riding jeans, and shorts revealing the buttocks or
underwear, short tops revealing the belly button, and inappropriate
short dresses, shorts, or skirts. Middle and high school students
are required to have shirts tucked in and pants are to be worn with
a belt.
High School Disciplinary Action:
Any student enrolled in a high school who violates the dress
code may receive counseling and/or parent/guardian(s) will be
contacted. Clothing and/or other personal adornment that is so
unusual or non-traditional that it attracts undue attention and
distracts from the academic climate of the classroom cannot be
allowed.
APPROPRIATE ATTIRE
• When young ladies wear shorts, skirts, and dresses, the
length must be near their knees. This knee length is determined by
the indentation of the tip of the student's middle finger when
placed against the student's attire.
• Bound sleeveless shirts and/or dresses that cover the
armpits may be worn.
• Shirts/blouses must cover the midriff at all times.
• Young men must wear belts or suspenders with their pants.
Elastic waist band/draw strings are acceptable.
• Hats and hoods may be worn outside of the building
only.
• Shirts and blouses that are designed to be worn inside will
be tucked into the pants/skirts.
• Undergarment shirts need to be white or grey.
INAPPROPRIATE ATTIRE
• Tight-fitting stretchy pants, leotards, bicycle pants, or
body gloves
• Blouses or shirts that are unbuttoned, see-through, halter
tops, tank tops, or muscle shirts and dresses that are strapless,
spaghetti strap, or sun dresses,
• Section cutout garments with holes
• Clothes that advertise gangs, alcoholic beverages, tobacco,
drugs, suggestive or sexually explicit logos, or offensive racial
slogans
• Headbands, bandannas, scarves, stocking/wave caps, or any
other head gear
• Bare feet, bedroom slippers, flip-flops or beach
shoes
• Hair combs, hair picks, or hair rollers
• Drop pants / saggy pants (F.S. 1006.07 and F.S.
1006.15)
• No hoodies allowed on campus.
* These dress code guidelines are subject to
the interpretation of the administration, faculty, and staff. Any
other type of clothing or garment that is distracting, immodest, or
interferes with learning will not be allowed.
ALL STUDENTS (ELEMENTARY, MIDDLE AND HIGH) FOUND IN
VIOLATION OF THE DRESS CODE WILL BE SUBJECTED TO THE FOLLOWING
OPTIONS:
• For first offenders, the school is required to give the
student a verbal warning, and the principal must call the student's
parent or guardian;
• For second offenders, the student is ineligible to
participate in extracurricular activities for up to 5 days, and the
principal must meet with the parent or guardian;
• For the third or subsequent offenders, the
extracurricular activity exclusion is extended to up to 30 days;
the school must place the student in in-school suspension for up to
3 days; and the principal must both call and send written notice to
a parent or guardian.