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Stephens Elementary | www.lrsd.org | Stephens Elementary Dress CodeMonday, April 23, 2007 | 7:34 a.m.
Zina Wangila woke up Friday morning, pulled on a brace of her admired jeans and headed off to chic at Mojave Aerial School. By 11 a.m. she was on her way aback home, accepting alone the school's dress code.
She had beat dejected jeans.
Mojave is one of three aerial schools, 15 average schools and 25 elementary schools in the Clark County Academy Commune that accept adopted dress codes added austere than the district's basal apparel guidelines, which ban hats, bald midriffs and deficient skirts. Principals at an added 18 campuses appetite to accept the tougher guidelines and will acquisition out this anniversary whether the appeal has been accustomed by parents.
The added akin dress codes, alleged "standard apprentice attire," acquiesce alone campuses to added absolute colors and fabrics. Dejected jeans are banned at aerial schools, and shirts charge be apparent unless they affectation a campus logo. In accession to any academy colors, acceptance charge be accustomed to abrasion khaki, fleet and white.
Supporters of stricter dress codes say they advance the acquirements environment, advice abbreviate the sometimes afflictive distinctions amid wealthier and beneath affluent children, and accomplish it easier to atom campus trespassers.
Opponents say that there's no accurate articulation amid accoutrements and apprentice achievement, and that stricter dress codes are alike to uniforms, which accept no abode in accessible education.
Stricter dress codes that bound on uniforms are acceptable added accepted amid the nation's accessible schools, led by campuses in California and New York. Districts in Indiana, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Tennessee are belief compatible behavior for the advancing academy year.
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NCUST Awards Stephens Elementary School With Gold, Anderson... | Stephens Elementary Dress CodeBut some districts that were aboriginal supporters accept back alone the initiative, afterwards award little change in apprentice accomplishment or behavior.
In 2005 the Clark County Academy Board began acceptance the stricter guidelines - provided that families were surveyed and 55 percent of the alternate ballots were in favor of the change. Families charge be notified by May 1 for the abutting academy year.
Principal Timothy Stephens of Desert Pines Aerial Academy in North Las Vegas said he is optimistic he'll win ancestor abutment for the stricter guidelines starting abutting academy year.
He said the amount of the action was axiomatic aftermost anniversary back several adolescent men trespassed assimilate the campus, allegedly attractive for a apprentice with whom they had a grudge. One of them brandished a gun, and the accumulation was chased off campus by a Academy Police officer.
The trespassers' accouterment helped them to alloy in with the acceptance at Desert Pines. But back they jumped the fence and darted through the crowds of uniform-clad pupils at Mountain View Christian Academy abutting door, Stephens said , he could calmly aces them out.
The commune activated an aboriginal adaptation of its accepted apprentice accoutrements action in 2002 with a pilot abstraction on three Henderson elementary campuses. It was arguable from the outset.
A change in dress cipher - awkward acceptance and parents - can be allowable by a about few. Cheyenne Aerial Academy switched to the stricter dress cipher afterwards alone 473 ballots were alternate aftermost spring, with 276 voting "yes" - acceptable the 55 percent approval requirement.
Given that Cheyenne's acceptance acme 2,700, the low beginning bare to change a dress cipher is a antecedent of annoyance to opponents of the accouterment policy.
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Stephens Elementary School - Aldine Independent School (EN) | Stephens Elementary Dress Code"Their alignment leaves a accomplished lot to be desired, but the capital affair is the built-in appropriate of chargeless speech," said Allen Lichtenstein, chief advocate for the Nevada ACLU, which two years ago sued to block its implementation.
Oral arguments in the case accept been heard by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals , and Lichtenstein said he anticipates a accommodation in a few months.
"We're optimistic that we'll assuredly be able to put this to rest," he said.
The ACLU filed the claiming afterwards then-Liberty Aerial Academy apprentice Kim Jacobs was again acclimatized for cutting T-shirts address quotations from the Book of Mormon.
Liberty, the district's aboriginal aerial academy to accept what was again alleged the "campus wardrobe" policy, requires acceptance to abrasion biscuit cheers and solid-colored red, white or dejected shirts.
Although Jacobs eventually withdrew from Liberty and confused to Northern California to alive with her mother, citation the burden that accompanied her acknowledged battles, bristles added families and their accouchement abutting the ACLU suit.
At Cheyenne, there's been affecting advance back the dress cipher was tightened, arch Jeff Geihs said. Compared with aftermost year, suspensions, referrals to the administrator and appropriate ancestor conferences accept alone by about 40 percent, he said.
"You can't altercate with the numbers," Geihs said.
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Stephens Elementary (@Stephens_Stars) | Twitter | Stephens Elementary Dress CodeOn Friday a cardinal of his acceptance agreed that the school's all-embracing atmosphere is calmer than in antecedent years and fights are now uncommon. Chief Vanessa Aguirre accustomed Geihs, who is in his additional year at the captain and has absurd bottomward on absence and apathy - sometimes by locking backward acceptance out of the classroom.
Cheyenne inferior Nadia Medellin said she can see both abandon of the dress cipher debate.
"In a way it's acceptable because you get accessible for academy eventually because you don't accept to anticipate about what to wear," Medellin said . "In a way it's bad, because you can't be yourself."
At Bounce Valley Aerial School, the accepted apprentice accouterment action is aloof one aspect in convalescent apprentice achievement. Arch Bob Gerye acicular to his school's charge to abate acquirements communities and a absolute mentoring program.
"We've apparent a abatement in abnormal behavior , but do you adhere that (exclusively) on the dress code?" Gerye asked.
The stricter dress cipher at Mojave Aerial Academy didn't go far enough, arch Charity Varnado said. She affairs to conduct a new analysis in two years, the ancient accustomed beneath commune regulation, and ask parents to abutment stricter limits.
Currently Mojave acceptance may abrasion biscuit pants and collared shirts of any solid color. She wants to absolute the options to the academy colors of orange and green, forth with the commune regulation's appropriate choices of khaki, fleet and white.
"I'd like to accomplish it easier for our agents to acquaint who isn't in compliance," Varnado said. "Our agents are so focused on academics, a apprentice may blooper by after actuality noticed."
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