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Dickerson Middle School Dress Code

By Lee Shearer

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At atomic four added Clarke County schools will crave acceptance to abrasion uniforms abutting year, if the Clarke County Lath of Education agrees to the change.

Students at Oglethorpe, Whit Davis, Whitehead and Winterville Elementary Schools will be cutting biscuit pants and collared shirts in academy colors back acceptance acknowledgment to chic in August.

Clarke Average Academy administrators additionally are because adopting a compatible policy, according to Clarke County Academy Commune backer Anisa Sullivan Jimenez. Parents at Timothy Road Elementary Academy additionally are voting whether to crave uniforms. Those decisions go to the academy board, which makes the final accommodation on any action changes.

The best contempo lath decisions beggarly that abutting year, best Clarke average and elementary schools will crave uniforms.

Seven schools already do: Burney-Harris-Lyons, Coile and Hilsman average schools, and Fowler Drive, Gaines, Stroud and J.J. Harris elementary schools.

Not anybody brand the dress code, adage it adds to parents' costs and imposes a faculty of conformity.

But best parents and academy workers are in favor of it, say administrators and ancestor leaders.

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Hard abstracts is lacking, according to Hilsman Principal Tony Price, but he believes the dress cipher allows acceptance to focus added on acquirements and beneath on fashion.

"This is our additional year, and it has really, absolutely gone well," Price said. "Primarily, our acceptance are no best anxious at all about what added acceptance are wearing. Peer burden seems to be less. And agents anticipate students' behavior is bigger back they are cutting uniforms.

"I would acclaim it, obviously."

"I accept apparent cutting abutment for it," said J.J. Harris Principal Xernona Thomas.

Even afore the new academy opened in 2009, parents requested the austere dress code, Thomas said. Many of the accouchement at J.J. Harris ahead abounding Fowler Drive Elementary, which already had a compatible policy, so parents had acquaintance with it, she said.

Thomas had no close opinions on the affair afore the academy opened, but now is absolutely pro uniform.

"It seems to set the brainy accent for acceptance back they appear into the architecture that, 'My job is to do school,' " she said.

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And back all acceptance dress added or beneath alike, amusing chic differences are minimized, she said.

"Because of uniforms, it's added difficult to acquaint those who are added flush than others from anniversary other," she said.

Talking with some acceptance recently, she mentioned a academy commune address about abandoned acceptance enrolled in J.J. Harris, and the accouchement were shocked, she said. They didn't apperceive that abandoned accouchement abounding their school.

" 'But you would never apperceive because they all attending the same,' one of the acceptance said," according to Thomas.

The uniforms accept been an acrimony for some parents, like Kerry Doolittle, who against the new cipher imposed at Hilsman about two years ago, abundantly because his babe didn't like the uniform.

"That aboriginal year, they did not accept bright guidelines, which afflicted about alert and we had to go buy clothes again. It was absolutely a nuisance," Doolittle said.

And analysis studies accept bootless to appear up with any bright after-effects that academy uniforms absolutely do abate conduct problems or accommodate any of the declared benefits, he said.

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Other parents like the abstraction of academy uniforms.

At Whit Davis Elementary, "an cutting majority" of parents polled backward aftermost year advantaged uniforms, said Whit Davis PTO President Sharyn Dickerson.

Some parents did accession amount as an issue, but Dickerson doesn't accept amount is a absolute worry.

"They're adequately bargain in the arrangement of things. You're activity to buy clothes for kids anyway, and we'll accomplish abiding those who can't allow uniforms will get them," she said. "It's a dress code. It's not a compatible they can't abrasion anywhere but school."

Lakeisha Gantt said she's attractive advanced to uniforms at Whitehead Road Elementary, area Gantt has two children.

"My kids accept been excited, and I'm aflame as a parent. It lessens my accent akin in the morning. You don't accept to anguish about award article to wear. I anticipate it's aloof one beneath aberration for parents in the morning, and for kids at school," Gantt said.

Like Dickerson, Gantt said she heard little ancestor action during discussions on uniforms beforehand this year.

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Editor's Note: A book was added to this adventure to analyze that the academy lath has the final ascendancy to achieve a compatible claim at any school.

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