Dress code – it holds a school together. Phones, along with dress code, are a tale as old as time. There has never been a time where those two things have not been a problem ever.
Since Covid hit, though, those things have taken a turn. Kids have gone wild with their high shirts and low waistbands. Student services needs this to stop. That’s why next year, they have decided to tighten up the rules.
For the dress code itself, the rules aren’t changing too much. They will be much more strict on punishments next year, though. Some examples of potential punishments include lunch detention, out-of-school suspension, arrest and jail time and even the death penalty.
“It seems that students aren’t afraid to get in trouble when teachers don’t enforce the punishments we tell them to,” administrator Juan Porse said. “So we hope to get the message across by making the punishments considerably worse.” This seems to be a tactic in order to wage war on the cultural developments seen in clothing these days.
“Kids come in wearing either too baggy or too tight clothes,” math teacher Parson Madler said. “There’s no middle ground.”
They see these trends as an utter disgrace to the education environment. They want kids to learn how to differentiate between the necessary attire for different situations. Dressing must have designated rules so that students know their place.
Clothing has the ability to throw the entire rhythm of the school off. Distraction, delusion and disruption are the pillars of consequences when dressing incorrectly. The school wants to stop this.
Junior Briona Geller is quite worried about the punishment. “Sometimes I wear shirts that show my belly button, and I don’t want to get arrested for that,” Geller said. “Those are the only shirts I have.”
The school points to her quote as the beginning of the problem. “We just need to scare all the students into getting different clothes,” Porse said.
Phones are also under scrutiny. The attempted “green and red” phone policy did not work, obviously, so the new policy is to never have a phone out.
“The first time you get caught with it out, it’ll be a warning,” administrator Pat Shiner said. “The subsequent times you get caught the punishment is one whack with a hammer right to the screen. This will continue until you stop getting your phone out or until your phone just doesn’t turn on anymore.”
Seemingly, this is rather harsh, but the administration says the best way to avoid the punishment is to just follow the rules.
Students next year will have to learn to live with these new rules and discipline. It might be a tough thing to acclimate to, but jail time might be worse, so take your pick.