Students

Dress and Grooming

The Board of Education encourages students to dress in clothing appropriate to the school situation. Restrictions on freedom of student dress may be applied whenever the mode of dress in question:

1. is unsafe either for the student or those around the student.

2. is disruptive to school operations and the education process in general.

3. is contrary to law.

Legal Reference: Connecticut General Statutes

Sec. 10-221 Boards of education to prescribe rules

Policy adopted: July 21, 2003

Students

Dress and Grooming

1. The administration will take appropriate determination on the newest clothing fads or styles as they pertain to the above dress policy. The administration will determine what attire is unclean and dangerous, or distracts from the educational process.

2. Students must wear proper and safe footwear. Any footwear deemed dangerous to the student or others will be prohibited.

3. Sexually provocative clothing - short shorts, see-through clothing, no shirts, garments designed or worn in such manner as to expose parts of the body constituting what generally is considered immodesty.

4. Clothing bearing messages that countervail the educational process – profanity, sexual suggestiveness, glorification of the drug/alcohol culture, insignias or other apparel that advertises membership in a gang, messages that incite violence.

5. Articles that are part of one’s attire but also designed so that they can be used as weapons – rings that simulate brass knuckles, belt buckles with the edges sharpened, nailed or cleated shoes, jewelry obviously designed to inflict injury.

6. Grooming/apparel or lack thereof that constitute a health hazard – long hair that is unbound while a student is operating machinery in a classroom or swimming in the pool, wearing six-inch platform shoes, not wearing shoes, wearing heavy outdoor coats in classrooms.

Regulation approved: July 21, 2003

The school administration will determine what attire is unclean, dangerous and/or distracts from the educational process.

Board of Education Policy #5132 – Student Dress and Grooming

http://z2policy.cabe.org/cabe/DocViewer.jsp?showset=seymour&z2collection=seymour&docid=177

School Specific Rules

• Teachers in particular subjects may require specific grooming/apparel rules for the safety of students. For example, pulling back long hair, wearing closed shoes, and/or wearing goggles in a laboratory setting.

• No article of clothing that covers any part of the head or face. This includes but is not limited to any type of hat, bandanna, costume mask, and all other types of face and head coverings except those that reflect religious tenets and those required to be worn for health and safety (COVID-19 or any future pandemics).

• No nonprescription eyewear including sunglasses.

Updated 9/8/2021