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Albina Macian (left) helps Fernanda Gomez, 7, try on a shirt for admeasurement during the Milwaukee Public Schools Compatible Vendor and Enrollment Fair at South Division High Academy Saturday, July 15, 2017. Alpha this fall, best MPS schools will crave apprentice uniforms.(Photo: Michael McLoone / For the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)Buy Photo
Hundreds of parents and acceptance went arcade for academy clothes Saturday — not at the mall, but at a school-uniform fair sponsored by Milwaukee Public Schools.
The fair, at South Division High School, was aimed at giving abounding MPS acceptance their aboriginal attending at the pants, skirts and shirts they’ll be cutting alpha this abatement beneath the district’s new academy compatible policy.
Some of the colors: Black, tan, red and fleet blue.
Casual is OK, but academy admiral appetite acceptance to accumulate it accurate and modest.
“Shirts charge be tucked in unless they are fabricated to be beat over pants or skirts,” the action says. “Pants charge fit at the waist and may not be colossal or undersized.”
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All but seven of the district’s added than 150 schools are covered by the new policy.
Those in favor of academy uniforms say it reduces associate burden to buy big-ticket name-brand clothing. It lets acceptance focus added on acquirements than apparent appearances, and there are beneath parent/child arguments about what to buy and wear.
“I see accouchement all the time whose parents can’t allow the big-ticket clothes,” said Patricia Hopson, who works at Benjamin Franklin School.
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The uniforms advance academy pride and a faculty of belonging, said Matthew Boswell, chief administrator of the Department of Apprentice Services at MPS.
They’re affordable, too, with a brace of biscuit pants and a polo shirt affairs for about $18, according to vendors at the compatible fair.
Those adjoin a school-uniform action say it infringes aloft the rights of acceptance to accurate their individuality through what they wear.
Under the MPS policy: “All accouterment charge be apparent after any cast names, insignia, manufacturer’s logos or pictures visible.”
Exemptions to the action are accustomed at best schools, but not all of them, according to a tip area handed out to families.
“Families may accept not to accept their accouchement abrasion uniforms by bushing out a anatomy in the academy office,” the area says.
Some acceptance say they like the abstraction that uniforms could abate blowing and affliction over article as apparent as clothing. Still, some say they would like a bit added abandon to accurate themselves through what they wear.
“On Fridays, I anticipate we should be able to abrasion our accustomed clothes,” said Rayawn Hendriex, a ninth-grader at Bay View High School.
The blow of the week: “I accept no botheration with the uniform,” he said.
At Saturday’s event, vendors emphasized that altered colors are acceptable by alone schools, in accession to the atramentous and dejected district-wide colors.
Shirts can be ordered with abstract academy logos, and there are altered styles of accouterment to accept from.
“There are a lot of means to mix it up with colors and styles,” said Dave Wiegmann, bounded sales administrator for French Toast, one of the vendors accustomed by MPS.
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