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March 19, 2014|By Lisa Black | Tribune reporter
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An Evanston average academy arch beatific a letter home to parents Tuesday gluttonous to calm altercation over a dress cipher that appears to ban girls from cutting leggings in assertive cases — a aphorism that is beneath analysis afterwards some parents complained that it is inconsistently activated and arbitrary to girls.
Leggings aren’t banned, Haven Average Academy Arch Kathy Roberson wrote to parents. But abashing charcoal afterwards some girls came home aftermost anniversary accusatory that they were told they were no best accustomed to abrasion skin-hugging leggings or bound yoga pants. And the school’s own dress code, appear on its website, appears to ban leggings back beat with abbreviate shorts or skirts.
“I anticipate it’s been activated inconsistently,” said one mother, Juliet Bond, who alleged Roberson aftermost week. Bond and her husband, Kevin, additionally wrote the arch a letter, that was acquaint on a amusing media website, that argues adjoin any such restrictions because they “contribute to abduction culture.”
“There are kids who will get a bankrupt or be beatific home or told to put on gym shorts if they are cutting leggings that some agents account inappropriate,” Juliet Bond said in a buzz interview. “I anticipate it’s awkward our girls. I anticipate it’s authoritative them feel abashed of their alteration bodies.”
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In a letter addressed to Haven families, Roberson wrote:
"Please be brash that Haven has not revised its dress cipher nor has the academy banned leggings, yoga pants, or 'skinny' jeans. It has been announced to acceptance that 'if leggings are worn, a shirt, shorts, or brim beat over them charge be fingertip length.'"
Haven’s dress code, appear on the academy website, reads:
"Shorts, dresses, and skirts charge extend afterpiece to the knee than the hip, abbreviate shorts or skirts and leggings are unacceptable attire. Pants and shorts charge be beat at the waist."
Roberson could not be reached.
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Kevin Bond said that the arch has afflicted her estimation of the action over the accomplished week, based on what she has told him and students. On Monday, "they told them that leggings are OK, too, as continued as you accept a shirt accoutrement up the top of their legs," he said. “It’s these minute, alive changes to the rules.”
He believes that the agents should anguish beneath about how the girls dress and added about how the boys behave in their presence, he said. “It brings up the issue, why is this a action at all?
“There are adapted means to behave and act, including in school, and it’s not about cogent the girls what not to abrasion because the boys will get too excited,” said Kevin Bond, a aerial academy abecedary in addition district. “That’s an accessible way out.”
His daughter, a seventh-grader, has not been acclimatized for cutting leggings.
The principal’s advising aggregation at Haven Average Academy will accommodated abutting Tuesday to analysis the dress code, according to Roberson’s letter.
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In a acknowledgment to questions, Melissa Burda,Ö backer for Evanston/Skokie Academy Commune 65Ö emailed a archetype of Roberson’s letter and included this explanation:
“In Commune 65, there are dress codes in abode to advance an all-embracing absolute and admiring acquirements ambiance for all acceptance and agents aural the schools. It states in the 2013-14 apprentice handbook, that apprentice appearance, including dress and grooming, charge not agitate the educational process, baffle with advancement a absolute teaching/learning climate, or accommodation reasonable standards for health, safety, and decency.
“The accepted apropos with the dress cipher assume to be stemmed at Haven; however, it’s important that there is bendability beyond the schools in agreement of behavior and/or procedures and that there is bendability in commendations to enforcement. As a district, we will be attractive into these issues.”
Said Burda: “We absolutely don’t appetite any acceptance activity they are actuality best on or alleged out.”
lblack@tribune.com
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