EDITORIAL: Dress Code

Dress code is where the school has a set of rules for students, where there are limits for students apparel. Lately in schools teachers have seen students not following school dress code, such as wearing their pants low showing their under garments, or wearing short skirts that don’t meet the middle finger length rule.

Kids complain all the time about not wearing what they would like to wear to school, and they say that different schools are easier going about the dress code. But in fact, they are wrong. Other schools have very similar rules as in our school. In comparing Kearsarge Regional High School, Concord High School and Hillsborough- Deering High School, research shows that these local school districts have the same dress code as Hopkinton High School. They all do not allow halter-tops or spaghetti traps as an example of the similarity of the dress code guidelines. But then again some students are correct because it depends on the teacher.

Individual teachers enforce the dress code at a different approach, but students feel that it should be enforced consistently on clothing choice from the students point of view.