• Dress and Grooming (All Grade Levels)

    The district’s dress code teaches grooming and hygiene, prevents disruption, and minimizes safety hazards. Students and parents may determine a student’s personal dress and grooming standards, provided that they comply with the following: 

    Shirts must meet one of the following requirements:

    1. Be a button down style with a collar
    2. Be a henley style that has buttons from the mid-chest up to a round neckline
    3. Be a crew neck or scoop neck style shirt or t-shirt
    4. Be a Karnes City spirit shirt or a college shirt

    *As well as....

    5. Must cover the midriff when arms are raised above the head

    6. Must have sleeves that cover the student’s shoulders (no sleeveless).

     

    *Pants/jeans/capris/shorts(including athletic style) must meet the following requirements: 

    1. Must be no shorter than finger-tip length when arms are extended straight down their sides.
    2. Rips, Frays, and/or holes may not expose skin above the knee.

    *Dresses/skirts must meet the following requirements:

    1. Must be no shorter than finger-tip length when arms are extended straight down their sides.
    2. Neckline must not fall more than two inches below the collar bone
    3. Must have sleeves that cover the student’s shoulders (no sleeveless).

     

    **Tight Fitting Clothing, including but not limited to tops/dresses, leotards, tube/strapless tops, stretch pants, yoga pants, or leggings, are not permitted unless worn under an appropriate dress or shirt.**

    *Hair must meet the following requirements: Hair must be neat, clean, well-groomed and not interfere with the learning process. Hair color must be a shade of a naturally occurring hair color and not a primary or secondary color. Students who dye their hair an unnaturally occurring hair color shall be subject to disciplinary action. Hair that impedes the ability to see a student’s eyes shall not be permitted.

    The following are strictly prohibited and WILL NOT be permitted:

    1. Designs on clothing/hair/skin that are disruptive to the educational environment including, but not limited to pictures, emblems, symbols, slogans, writings that are lewd, offensive, vulgar, obscene or contain sexual innuendoes.
    2. Designs that advertise/depict tobacco, alcohol, drugs, controlled substances, weapons, or otherwise outlawed items.
    3. Tight fitting shirts including tank tops meant to be worn under other kinds of shirts and torn/ripped clothing with visible skin.
    4. Wearing of Hats, caps, sweatbands, bandanas, visors or other head coverings, including the hoods on hoodies in the building.
    5. Clothing that is designed/considered to be pajamas/loungewear including tops, pants and shoes.
    6. Lip piercings/rings or notched eyebrows.
    7. Jewelry that is studded, spiked or a choker, heavy chains or mouth grills/pieces.
    8. House shoes and roller shoes .
    9. Shirts/dresses that are sheer or see through on the top or back in any way.
    10. **GAUGES and/or SPIKES ARE NOT PERMITTED for any student**
    11. **UNDERGARMENTS MAY NEVER BE VISIBLE ABOVE WAISTBANDS**
    12. **FACIAL HAIR is NOT PERMITTED including BEARDS, MUSTACHES or GOATEES*

    IV. Additional dress code information

    1. Administrators and teachers have the authority to and will enforce the dress code with appropriate consequences.
    2. The administration may extend the dress code to certain extracurricular activities such as spirit days or special events such as banquets/prom.
    3. The dress code applies to all school-related functions, sporting/academic events, concerts and field trips during the instructional day.
    4. Dress code violations will be addressed and corrected on campus using school resources if available, prior to parent contact for a change of clothes.
      • If the principal determines that a student’s grooming or clothing violates the school’s dress code, the student will be given an opportunity to correct the problem at school and return to the classroom. If the problem cannot be corrected at school, the principal will work with the student and parent to obtain an acceptable change of clothing for the student in a way that minimizes loss of instructional time.
      • Repeated or severe offenses may result in more serious disciplinary action in accordance with the Student Code of Conduct. Karnes City ISD Student Handbook 57 If the principal determines that a student’s grooming or clothing violates the school’s dress code, the student will be given an opportunity to correct the problem at school and return to the classroom.

     

    If the problem cannot be corrected at school, the principal will work with the student and parent to obtain an acceptable change of clothing for the student in a way that minimizes loss of instructional time. Repeated or severe offenses may result in more serious disciplinary action in accordance with the Student Code of Conduct. 

     

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